ḫbj

See also: hbj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /xɛbi/
  • Conventional anglicization: khebi

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to dance

Inflection

Conjugation of ḫbj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: ḫb, geminated stem: ḫbb

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ḫbt, ḫbj ḫbw, ḫb ḫbt, ḫbwt, ḫbyt ḫb ḫb, ḫby ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ḫb8, ḫbb8 ḥr ḫbt, ḥr ḫbj m ḫbt, m ḫbj r ḫbt, r ḫbj suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect ḫb.n consecutive ḫb.jn terminative ḫbt, ḫbyt perfective3 ḫb obligative1 ḫb.ḫr imperfective ḫb, ḫby prospective3 ḫbw, ḫb, ḫby potentialis1 ḫb.kꜣ subjunctive ḫb, ḫby verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect ḫb.n — — perfective ḫbw1, ḫby, ḫb ḫb ḫby, ḫb imperfective ḫbb, ḫbby, ḫbbw5 ḫbb, ḫbbj6, ḫbby6 ḫbb, ḫbbw5 prospective ḫbw1, ḫby, ḫb, ḫbtj7 ḫbwtj1 4, ḫbtj4, ḫbt4 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. 8 Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Synonyms

• jbꜣ
• wꜣr

References

• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 138