ḫꜣbwsꜣ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /xɑbuːsɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: khabusa

Noun

 m

1. (Late Egyptian) lamp

Inflection

Declension of ḫꜣbwsꜣ (masculine)

singular	ḫꜣbwsꜣ
dual	ḫꜣbwsꜣwj
plural	ḫꜣbwsꜣw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḫꜣbwsꜣ  

ḫꜣbs	ḫbs
[Late Period]	[Late Period]

Descendants

• Demotic: ẖbs
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⳉⲏⲃⲥ (xēbs)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ϧⲏⲃⲥ (xēbs)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ϩⲏⲃⲥ (hēbs), ϩⲏⲃⲉⲥ (hēbes)
  • Lycopolitan Coptic: ϩⲏⲃⲥ (hēbs)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ϩⲏⲃⲥ (hēbs), ϩⲉⲃⲥ (hebs), ϩⲃⲥ (hbs)

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive, Late Egyptian, of the sun) to shine

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ḫꜣbwsꜣ ḫꜣbwsꜣw, ḫꜣbwsꜣ ḫꜣbwsꜣt ḫꜣbwsꜣ ḫꜣbwsꜣ ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ḫꜣbwsꜣ ḥr ḫꜣbwsꜣ m ḫꜣbwsꜣ r ḫꜣbwsꜣ suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect ḫꜣbwsꜣ.n consecutive ḫꜣbwsꜣ.jn terminative ḫꜣbwsꜣt perfective3 ḫꜣbwsꜣ obligative1 ḫꜣbwsꜣ.ḫr imperfective ḫꜣbwsꜣ prospective3 ḫꜣbwsꜣ potentialis1 ḫꜣbwsꜣ.kꜣ subjunctive ḫꜣbwsꜣ verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect ḫꜣbwsꜣ.n — — perfective ḫꜣbwsꜣ ḫꜣbwsꜣ ḫꜣbwsꜣ, ḫꜣbwsꜣw5, ḫꜣbwsꜣy5 imperfective ḫꜣbwsꜣ, ḫꜣbwsꜣy, ḫꜣbwsꜣw5 ḫꜣbwsꜣ, ḫꜣbwsꜣj6, ḫꜣbwsꜣy6 ḫꜣbwsꜣ, ḫꜣbwsꜣw5 prospective ḫꜣbwsꜣ, ḫꜣbwsꜣtj7 ḫꜣbwsꜣtj4, ḫꜣbwsꜣt4 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

• “ḫbs (lemma ID 113860)” and “ḫbs (lemma ID 115800)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 230.3–230.4