jꜣkb

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iɑkɛb/
  • Conventional anglicization: iakeb

Verb

 4-lit.

1. (intransitive) to mourn
2. (intransitive) to wail, to lament (+ n or ḥr: over, because of)

Inflection

Conjugation of jꜣkb (quadriliteral / 4-lit. / 4rad.) — base stem: jꜣkb

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural jꜣkb jꜣkbw, jꜣkb jꜣkbt jꜣkb jꜣkb ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 jꜣkb ḥr jꜣkb m jꜣkb r jꜣkb suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect jꜣkb.n consecutive jꜣkb.jn terminative jꜣkbt perfective3 jꜣkb obligative1 jꜣkb.ḫr imperfective jꜣkb prospective3 jꜣkbw, jꜣkb potentialis1 jꜣkb.kꜣ subjunctive jꜣkb verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect jꜣkb.n — — perfective jꜣkb jꜣkb jꜣkb, jꜣkbw5, jꜣkby5 imperfective jꜣkb, jꜣkby, jꜣkbw5 jꜣkb, jꜣkbj6, jꜣkby6 jꜣkb, jꜣkbw5 prospective jꜣkb, jꜣkbtj7 jꜣkbwtj1 4, jꜣkbtj4, jꜣkbt4 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 jꜣkb  

jkb

Derived terms

• jꜣkby
• jꜣkbyt

Descendants

• Akhmimic Coptic: ⲱⲕⲙⲉ (ōkme)
• Bohairic Coptic: ⲱⲕⲉⲙ (ōkem)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲱⲕⲙ̄ (ōkm̄)

Noun

 m

1. mourning
2. lament, wail

Inflection

Declension of jꜣkb (masculine)

singular	jꜣkb
dual	jꜣkbwj
plural	jꜣkbw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜣkb  

jkb

References

• “jꜣkb (lemma ID 21010)” and “jꜣkb (lemma ID 21020)”, 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 34.5–34.12
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 9
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 166.