bꜣẖ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /bɑç/
  • Conventional anglicization: bakh

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to rise (of the sun), to shine brightly (of the milk)
2. (intransitive) to sink (of the sun), to go down (of the sun), to shrink (of eye)

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural bꜣẖ bꜣẖw, bꜣẖ bꜣẖt bꜣẖ bꜣẖ ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 bꜣẖ ḥr bꜣẖ m bꜣẖ r bꜣẖ suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect bꜣẖ.n consecutive bꜣẖ.jn terminative bꜣẖt perfective3 bꜣẖ obligative1 bꜣẖ.ḫr imperfective bꜣẖ prospective3 bꜣẖ potentialis1 bꜣẖ.kꜣ subjunctive bꜣẖ verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect bꜣẖ.n — — perfective bꜣẖ bꜣẖ bꜣẖ, bꜣẖw5, bꜣẖy5 imperfective bꜣẖ, bꜣẖy, bꜣẖw5 bꜣẖ, bꜣẖj6, bꜣẖy6 bꜣẖ, bꜣẖw5 prospective bꜣẖ, bꜣẖtj7 bꜣẖtj4, bꜣẖt4 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

• bꜣẖw

Adjective

1. bright, light

Inflection

Declension of bꜣẖ (perfective active participle)

	masculine	feminine
singular	bꜣẖ	bꜣẖt
dual	bꜣẖwj	bꜣẖtj
plural	bꜣẖw	bꜣẖwt1, bꜣẖt2

¹ Archaic in Middle Egyptian when modifying a noun.
² From Middle Egyptian, this feminine singular form was generally used for the plural.
In Late Egyptian, the masculine singular form was used with all nouns.