ṯꜣm

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑm/
  • Conventional anglicization: tjam

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to cloak or veil oneself
2. (intransitive, of wounds) to close

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ṯꜣm ṯꜣmw, ṯꜣm ṯꜣmt ṯꜣm ṯꜣm ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ṯꜣm ḥr ṯꜣm m ṯꜣm r ṯꜣm suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect ṯꜣm.n consecutive ṯꜣm.jn terminative ṯꜣmt perfective3 ṯꜣm obligative1 ṯꜣm.ḫr imperfective ṯꜣm prospective3 ṯꜣm potentialis1 ṯꜣm.kꜣ subjunctive ṯꜣm verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect ṯꜣm.n — — perfective ṯꜣm ṯꜣm ṯꜣm, ṯꜣmw5, ṯꜣmy5 imperfective ṯꜣm, ṯꜣmy, ṯꜣmw5 ṯꜣm, ṯꜣmj6, ṯꜣmy6 ṯꜣm, ṯꜣmw5 prospective ṯꜣm, ṯꜣmtj7 ṯꜣmtj4, ṯꜣmt4 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 ṯꜣm  

ṯꜣm

[New Kingdom]

Noun

 m

1. bandage
2. swaddling clothes
3. cloak
4. wrappings for a cultic image
5. mummy wrappings

Inflection

Declension of ṯꜣm (masculine)

singular	ṯꜣm
dual	ṯꜣmwj
plural	ṯꜣmw

Noun

 m

1. foreskin

Inflection

Declension of ṯꜣm (masculine)

singular	ṯꜣm
dual	ṯꜣmwj
plural	ṯꜣmw

Synonyms

• qrnt

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 354.12–354.18, 354.20–354.21
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 303