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
Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 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. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. 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