ꜥḥꜣ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑːhɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: aha

Noun

 m

1. fight, battle

Inflection

Declension of ꜥḥꜣ (masculine)

singular	ꜥḥꜣ
dual	ꜥḥꜣwj
plural	ꜥḥꜣw

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive or transitive) to fight or make war (+ ḥr: for (the sake of); + ḥnꜥ: with, against; + m: by means of, with; + r: against)

Inflection

Conjugation of ꜥḥꜣ (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ꜥḥꜣ, geminated stem: ꜥḥꜣꜣ

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ꜥḥꜣ ꜥḥꜣw, ꜥḥꜣ ꜥḥꜣt ꜥḥꜣ ꜥḥꜣ ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ꜥḥꜣ ḥr ꜥḥꜣ m ꜥḥꜣ r ꜥḥꜣ suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect ꜥḥꜣ.n ꜥḥꜣw, ꜥḥꜣ consecutive ꜥḥꜣ.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative ꜥḥꜣt perfective3 ꜥḥꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 ꜥḥꜣ.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective ꜥḥꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 ꜥḥꜣ ꜥḥꜣꜣ potentialis1 ꜥḥꜣ.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive ꜥḥꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect ꜥḥꜣ.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective ꜥḥꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 ꜥḥꜣ ꜥḥꜣ, ꜥḥꜣw5, ꜥḥꜣy5 imperfective ꜥḥꜣ, ꜥḥꜣy, ꜥḥꜣw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 ꜥḥꜣ, ꜥḥꜣj6, ꜥḥꜣy6 ꜥḥꜣ, ꜥḥꜣw5 prospective ꜥḥꜣ, ꜥḥꜣtj7 — ꜥḥꜣtj4, ꜥḥꜣt4 1 Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. 2 Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 3 Archaic or greatly restricted in usage by Middle Egyptian. The perfect has mostly taken over the functions of the perfective, and the subjunctive and periphrastic prospective have mostly replaced the prospective. 4 Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. 5 Only in the masculine singular. 6 Only in the masculine. 7 Only in the feminine.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥḥꜣ  

ꜥḥꜣ	jḥꜣ

Derived terms

• ꜥḥꜣwtj
• ꜥḥꜣw

Noun

 m

1. (usually in the plural) arrow
2. (in the plural) weapon in general

Inflection

Declension of ꜥḥꜣ (masculine)

singular	ꜥḥꜣ
dual	ꜥḥꜣwj
plural	ꜥḥꜣw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥḥꜣ  

ꜥḥꜣ

Proper noun

 m

1. a serekh name notably borne by Hor-Aha, a pharaoh of the First Dynasty

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 215.1–216.1, 216.12–216.15
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 46
• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 83
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 458.
• von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 46, 171
• British Museum EA 38010
• Petrie, Flinders (1900) The royal tombs of the first dynasty, part I, plates III, X, XI