bꜥḥ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /bɑːh/
  • Conventional anglicization: bah

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive, of a name) to be detested, to be reviled; perhaps literally ‘to stink’

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural bꜥḥ bꜥḥw, bꜥḥ bꜥḥt bꜥḥ bꜥḥ ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 bꜥḥ ḥr bꜥḥ m bꜥḥ r bꜥḥ suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect bꜥḥ.n consecutive bꜥḥ.jn terminative bꜥḥt perfective3 bꜥḥ obligative1 bꜥḥ.ḫr imperfective bꜥḥ prospective3 bꜥḥ potentialis1 bꜥḥ.kꜣ subjunctive bꜥḥ verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect bꜥḥ.n — — perfective bꜥḥ bꜥḥ bꜥḥ, bꜥḥw5, bꜥḥy5 imperfective bꜥḥ, bꜥḥy, bꜥḥw5 bꜥḥ, bꜥḥj6, bꜥḥy6 bꜥḥ, bꜥḥw5 prospective bꜥḥ, bꜥḥtj7 bꜥḥtj4, bꜥḥt4 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.

References

• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 140
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 450.6
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 81