ḥbꜣbꜣ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛbɑbɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: hebaba

Verb

 5-lit.

1. (intransitive) to waddle

Inflection

Conjugation of ḥbꜣbꜣ (quinquiliteral / 5-lit. / 5rad.) — base stem: ḥbꜣbꜣ

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ḥbꜣbꜣ	ḥbꜣbꜣw, ḥbꜣbꜣ	ḥbꜣbꜣt	ḥbꜣbꜣ	ḥbꜣbꜣ

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	ḥbꜣbꜣ.n	consecutive	ḥbꜣbꜣ.jn
terminative	ḥbꜣbꜣt
perfective3	ḥbꜣbꜣ	obligative1	ḥbꜣbꜣ.ḫr
imperfective	ḥbꜣbꜣ
prospective3	ḥbꜣbꜣw, ḥbꜣbꜣ	potentialis1	ḥbꜣbꜣ.kꜣ
subjunctive	ḥbꜣbꜣ

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	ḥbꜣbꜣ.n	—	—
perfective	ḥbꜣbꜣ	ḥbꜣbꜣ	ḥbꜣbꜣ, ḥbꜣbꜣw5, ḥbꜣbꜣy5
imperfective	ḥbꜣbꜣ, ḥbꜣbꜣy, ḥbꜣbꜣw5	ḥbꜣbꜣ, ḥbꜣbꜣj6, ḥbꜣbꜣy6	ḥbꜣbꜣ, ḥbꜣbꜣw5
prospective	ḥbꜣbꜣ, ḥbꜣbꜣtj7	ḥbꜣbꜣwtj1 4, ḥbꜣbꜣtj4, ḥbꜣbꜣt4
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

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 309.