ḫꜣtb

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /xɑtɛb/
  • Conventional anglicization: khateb

Verb

 4-lit.

1. (intransitive, always negated) to have mercy, to take pity (+ jm: to have mercy on, to spare) [Pyramid Texts and Book of the Dead]
   • c. 2289 BCE – 2255 BCE, Pyramid Texts of Pepi I — south wall of the vestibule, spell 542.4:

     ḏḥwtj m ḫꜣtb.k j.msḏw nb [j]t(.j)

     Thoth, show no mercy to anyone who hates my father.

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ḫꜣtb ḫꜣtbw, ḫꜣtb ḫꜣtbt ḫꜣtb ḫꜣtb ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ḫꜣtb ḥr ḫꜣtb m ḫꜣtb r ḫꜣtb suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect ḫꜣtb.n consecutive ḫꜣtb.jn terminative ḫꜣtbt perfective3 ḫꜣtb obligative1 ḫꜣtb.ḫr imperfective ḫꜣtb prospective3 ḫꜣtbw, ḫꜣtb potentialis1 ḫꜣtb.kꜣ subjunctive ḫꜣtb verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect ḫꜣtb.n — — perfective ḫꜣtb ḫꜣtb ḫꜣtb, ḫꜣtbw5, ḫꜣtby5 imperfective ḫꜣtb, ḫꜣtby, ḫꜣtbw5 ḫꜣtb, ḫꜣtbj6, ḫꜣtby6 ḫꜣtb, ḫꜣtbw5 prospective ḫꜣtb, ḫꜣtbtj7 ḫꜣtbwtj1 4, ḫꜣtbtj4, ḫꜣtbt4 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.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḫꜣtb  

ḫꜣtb	ḫꜣtb
[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN