bḥnj
Egyptian
editPronunciation
edit- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /bɛhɛni/
- Conventional anglicization: beheni
Verb
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4ae inf.
- (transitive) to cut apart, to dismember (evil ones) (+ m: with (a knife))
- (transitive) to cut off, to sever (limbs, heads, ears, etc.) [Book of the Dead and Late Period]
- (transitive) to punish (evil ones) generally [since the Pyramid Texts]
- (transitive) to drive off or otherwise subdue (enemies) [since the Pyramid Texts]
- (transitive) to remove, to dispose of (a quarrel) [Pyramid Texts and Book of the Dead]
- (transitive) to eliminate (lies) [Greco-Roman Period]
- (transitive) to render (poison) harmless [Late Period]
Inflection
editConjugation of bḥnj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: bḥn, geminated stem: bḥnn
infinitival forms | imperative | |||
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infinitive | negatival complement | complementary infinitive1 | singular | plural |
bḥn |
bḥnw, bḥnyw, bḥn |
bḥnt, bḥnwt, bḥnyt |
bḥn |
bḥn, bḥny |
‘pseudoverbal’ forms | |||
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stative stem | periphrastic imperfective2 | periphrastic prospective2 | |
bḥn8 |
ḥr bḥn |
m bḥn |
r bḥn |
suffix conjugation | |||||
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aspect / mood | active | passive | contingent | ||
aspect / mood | active | passive | |||
perfect | bḥn.n |
bḥnw, bḥn, bḥny |
consecutive | bḥn.jn |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
terminative | bḥnt | ||||
perfective3 | bḥn |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
obligative1 | bḥn.ḫr |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
imperfective | bḥn, bḥny |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||
prospective3 | bḥnw, bḥn, bḥny |
bḥnn |
potentialis1 | bḥn.kꜣ |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
subjunctive | bḥn, bḥny |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
verbal adjectives | ||||
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aspect / mood | relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms | participles | ||
active | passive | active | passive | |
perfect | bḥn.n |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
— | — |
perfective | bḥnw1, bḥny, bḥn |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
bḥn |
bḥny, bḥn |
imperfective | bḥnn, bḥnny, bḥnnw5 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
bḥnn, bḥnnj6, bḥnny6 |
bḥnn, bḥnnw5 |
prospective | bḥnw1, bḥny, bḥn, bḥntj7 |
— | bḥnwtj1 4, bḥntj4, bḥnt4 | |
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Alternative forms
editAlternative hieroglyphic writings of bḥnj
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bḥnj | bḥnj | bḥnj | bḥnj | bḥnj | bḥnj | bḥnwj | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
[Pyramid Texts] | [since the Pyramid Texts] | [New Kingdom] | [Book of the Dead] | [Greco-Roman Period] | [Greco-Roman Period] | [Greco-Roman Period] |
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- “bḥni̯ (lemma ID 56830)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 468.9–468.17
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 83