ḏnb

See also: DNB

Egyptian

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Afroasiatic *ḳrb- or *ḳlb-; compare Arabic ق ل ب (q l b).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛnɛb/
  • Conventional anglicization: djeneb

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to turn off to the side

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ḏnb ḏnbw, ḏnb ḏnbt ḏnb ḏnb ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ḏnb ḥr ḏnb m ḏnb r ḏnb suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect ḏnb.n consecutive ḏnb.jn terminative ḏnbt perfective3 ḏnb obligative1 ḏnb.ḫr imperfective ḏnb prospective3 ḏnb potentialis1 ḏnb.kꜣ subjunctive ḏnb verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect ḏnb.n — — perfective ḏnb ḏnb ḏnb, ḏnbw5, ḏnby5 imperfective ḏnb, ḏnby, ḏnbw5 ḏnb, ḏnbj6, ḏnby6 ḏnb, ḏnbw5 prospective ḏnb, ḏnbtj7 ḏnbtj4, ḏnbt4 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.

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 576.2, 576.5