hb

See also: HB, Hb., ḥb, ḫb, and Hb

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛb/
  • Conventional anglicization: heb

Noun

 m

1. plough [since the Old Kingdom]
   • Early 6th Dynasty, Tomb of Nyankhnesut, Relief of Agricultural Scenes (Cleveland 1930.736), upper register, caption above plowman:

     skꜣ wꜣḥ hb

     Plowing. “Press the plow!”

Inflection

Declension of hb (masculine)

singular	hb
dual	hbwj
plural	hbw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of hb  

hb	hꜣbw	hꜣbꜣ	hbꜣ
	[Middle Kingdom]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]
abbreviation	in hieratic

Descendants

• Bohairic Coptic: ϩⲉⲃⲓ (hebi)
• Sahidic Coptic: ϩⲃ̄ⲃⲉ (hb̄be)

References

• “hb (lemma ID 98010)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 485.10–485.11
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 158

Spanish

Noun

hb f (uncountable)

1. Abbreviation of hora boliviana.

Swedish

Noun

hb c

1. Alternative letter-case form of HB (“moonshine”)