ḏrḏr

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛrd͡ʒɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: djerdjer

Verb

 4-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) strange, foreign

Inflection

Conjugation of ḏrḏr (quadriliteral / 4-lit. / 4rad.) — base stem: ḏrḏr

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ḏrḏr ḏrḏrw, ḏrḏr ḏrḏrt ḏrḏr ḏrḏr ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ḏrḏr ḥr ḏrḏr m ḏrḏr r ḏrḏr suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect ḏrḏr.n consecutive ḏrḏr.jn terminative ḏrḏrt perfective3 ḏrḏr obligative1 ḏrḏr.ḫr imperfective ḏrḏr prospective3 ḏrḏrw, ḏrḏr potentialis1 ḏrḏr.kꜣ subjunctive ḏrḏr verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect ḏrḏr.n — — perfective ḏrḏr ḏrḏr ḏrḏr, ḏrḏrw5, ḏrḏry5 imperfective ḏrḏr, ḏrḏry, ḏrḏrw5 ḏrḏr, ḏrḏrj6, ḏrḏry6 ḏrḏr, ḏrḏrw5 prospective ḏrḏr, ḏrḏrtj7 ḏrḏrwtj1 4, ḏrḏrtj4, ḏrḏrt4 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.

Adjective

1. perfective active participle of ḏrḏr: strange, foreign

Inflection

Declension of ḏrḏr (perfective active participle)

	masculine	feminine
singular	ḏrḏr	ḏrḏrt
dual	ḏrḏrwj	ḏrḏrtj
plural	ḏrḏrw	ḏrḏrwt1, ḏrḏrt2

¹ Archaic in Middle Egyptian when modifying a noun.
² From Middle Egyptian, this feminine singular form was generally used for the plural.
In Late Egyptian, the masculine singular form was used with all nouns.

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 604