dp

See also: DP and D/P

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /dɛp/
  • Conventional anglicization: dep

Verb

 2-lit.

1. (transitive) to taste (a food, a drink, a taste) [since the Pyramid Texts]
2. (transitive, figuratively) to go through, to experience (a bad feeling or event) [since the Old Kingdom]
   • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) line 124:

     ršwj sḏd dpt.n.f zn ḫt mr

     How joyful is he who recounts what he has experienced when a painful thing passes!

3. (transitive, figuratively) to feel, to sense [New Kingdom]

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural dp dpw, dp dpt dp, j.dp dp, j.dp ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 dp ḥr dp m dp r dp suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect dp.n dpw, dp consecutive dp.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative dpt perfective3 dp active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 dp.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective dp, j.dp1 active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 dp dpp potentialis1 dp.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive dp, j.dp1 active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect dp.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective dp active + .tj1, .tw2 dp dpp, dppj6, dp2, dpw2 5, dpy2 5 imperfective j.dp1, dp, dpy, dpw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 j.dp1, j.dpw1 5, dp, dpj6, dpy6 dp, dpw5 prospective dp, dptj7 — dptj4, dpt4 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 dp  

dp	dp	dp	dp	dp
[Old Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[Late Period]
			especially in hieratic

Derived terms

• dpt

Descendants

• Demotic: tp
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲧⲱⲡ (tōp)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲧⲱⲡⲉ (tōpe)

Proper noun

 m

1. a city in Lower Egypt that, together with the city of p, later formed the combined city of Buto [since the Old Kingdom]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of dp  

dp	dp
[Late and Greco-Roman Periods]	[Late and Greco-Roman Periods]

Romanization

dp

1. Alternative transliteration of tp (“head, atop”).

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 443.1, 443.7–444.15
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 312
• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 93