jbꜣ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ibɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: iba

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to dance

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
jbꜣ	jbꜣw, jbꜣ	jbꜣt	jbꜣ	jbꜣ

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

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	jbꜣ.n	—	—
perfective	jbꜣ	jbꜣ	jbꜣ, jbꜣw5, jbꜣy5
imperfective	jbꜣ, jbꜣy, jbꜣw5	jbꜣ, jbꜣj6, jbꜣy6	jbꜣ, jbꜣw5
prospective	jbꜣ, jbꜣtj7	jbꜣtj4, jbꜣt4
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.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jbꜣ  

jb

[18th Dynasty]

Synonyms

• ḫbj
• wꜣr

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 62.8–62.11