ḫfꜥ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to grasp, to seize

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ḫfꜥ ḫfꜥw, ḫfꜥ ḫfꜥt ḫfꜥ ḫfꜥ ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ḫfꜥ ḥr ḫfꜥ m ḫfꜥ r ḫfꜥ suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect ḫfꜥ.n ḫfꜥw, ḫfꜥ consecutive ḫfꜥ.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative ḫfꜥt perfective3 ḫfꜥ active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 ḫfꜥ.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective ḫfꜥ active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 ḫfꜥ ḫfꜥꜥ potentialis1 ḫfꜥ.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive ḫfꜥ active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect ḫfꜥ.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective ḫfꜥ active + .tj1, .tw2 ḫfꜥ ḫfꜥ, ḫfꜥw5, ḫfꜥy5 imperfective ḫfꜥ, ḫfꜥy, ḫfꜥw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 ḫfꜥ, ḫfꜥj6, ḫfꜥy6 ḫfꜥ, ḫfꜥw5 prospective ḫfꜥ, ḫfꜥtj7 — ḫfꜥtj4, ḫfꜥt4 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.

Synonyms

• ꜣmm
• nḏrj
• jṯj

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 291.