bḥ

See also: bh, Bh, BH, .bh, bh', B"H, and B&H

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /bɛh/
  • Conventional anglicization: beh

Verb

 2-lit.

1. (intransitive, Late Egyptian) to be(come) obligated to perform corvee labor

Inflection

Conjugation of bḥ (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: bḥ, geminated stem: bḥḥ

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural bḥ bḥw, bḥ bḥt bḥ, j.bḥ bḥ, j.bḥ ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 bḥ ḥr bḥ m bḥ r bḥ suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect bḥ.n consecutive bḥ.jn terminative bḥt perfective3 bḥ obligative1 bḥ.ḫr imperfective bḥ, j.bḥ1 prospective3 bḥ potentialis1 bḥ.kꜣ subjunctive bḥ, j.bḥ1 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect bḥ.n — — perfective bḥ bḥ bḥḥ, bḥḥj6, bḥ2, bḥw2 5, bḥy2 5 imperfective j.bḥ1, bḥ, bḥy, bḥw5 j.bḥ1, j.bḥw1 5, bḥ, bḥj6, bḥy6 bḥ, bḥw5 prospective bḥ, bḥtj7 bḥtj4, bḥt4 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.

Derived terms

• bḥw

Noun

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1. (Late Egyptian) an agent for tanning leather

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of bḥ  

bḥw

Noun

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1. a kind of plant [Greco-Roman Period]

References

• “bḥ (lemma ID 56800)”, “bḥ (lemma ID 56780)”, and “bḥ (lemma ID 56790)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 468.5–468.7