bkꜣ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /bɛkɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: beka

Noun

 m

1. tomorrow, the next day [Pyramid Texts and New Kingdom]
2. morning [18th Dynasty and Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection

Declension of bkꜣ (masculine)

singular	bkꜣ
dual	bkꜣwj
plural	bkꜣw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of bkꜣ  

bꜣkꜣ	bꜣkꜣy	bꜣkꜣ	bꜣq	bkꜣt
[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[18th Dynasty]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) pregnant

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
bkꜣ	bkꜣw, bkꜣ	bkꜣt	bkꜣ	bkꜣ

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
bkꜣ	ḥr bkꜣ	m bkꜣ	r bkꜣ

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	bkꜣ.n	consecutive	bkꜣ.jn
terminative	bkꜣt
perfective3	bkꜣ	obligative1	bkꜣ.ḫr
imperfective	bkꜣ
prospective3	bkꜣ	potentialis1	bkꜣ.kꜣ
subjunctive	bkꜣ

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	bkꜣ.n	—	—
perfective	bkꜣ	bkꜣ	bkꜣ, bkꜣw5, bkꜣy5
imperfective	bkꜣ, bkꜣy, bkꜣw5	bkꜣ, bkꜣj6, bkꜣy6	bkꜣ, bkꜣw5
prospective	bkꜣ, bkꜣtj7	bkꜣtj4, bkꜣt4
Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 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. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine.

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 481.1–481.11, 481.17–481.18
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 79, 85