ḫfꜣ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /xɛfɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: khefa

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to nourish oneself, to feed (+ m: on, from) [Theban royal tombs]

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ḫfꜣ ḫfꜣw, ḫfꜣ ḫfꜣt ḫfꜣ ḫfꜣ ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ḫfꜣ ḥr ḫfꜣ m ḫfꜣ r ḫfꜣ suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect ḫfꜣ.n consecutive ḫfꜣ.jn terminative ḫfꜣt perfective3 ḫfꜣ obligative1 ḫfꜣ.ḫr imperfective ḫfꜣ prospective3 ḫfꜣ potentialis1 ḫfꜣ.kꜣ subjunctive ḫfꜣ verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect ḫfꜣ.n — — perfective ḫfꜣ ḫfꜣ ḫfꜣ, ḫfꜣw5, ḫfꜣy5 imperfective ḫfꜣ, ḫfꜣy, ḫfꜣw5 ḫfꜣ, ḫfꜣj6, ḫfꜣy6 ḫfꜣ, ḫfꜣw5 prospective ḫfꜣ, ḫfꜣtj7 ḫfꜣtj4, ḫfꜣt4 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 ḫfꜣ  

ḫꜣf	ḫꜣ
	[sic], from the tomb of Seti I

Derived terms

• ḫfꜣt

References

• “ḫfꜣ (lemma ID 854806)”, 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, page 230.14
• Hornung, Erik (1979) Das Buch von den Pforten des Jenseits: Nach den Versionen des Neuen Reiches, volume 1: Text, page 17
• Hornung, Erik (1984) Das Buch von den Pforten des Jenseits: Nach den Versionen des Neuen Reiches, volume 2: Übersetzung und Kommentar, page 47 and page 48, note 4