jbḥ

Egyptian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ibɛh/
  • Conventional anglicization: ibeh

Noun

 m

1. tooth

   Synonym: nḥḏt

2. tusk

   Synonym: nḥḏt

Inflection

Declension of jbḥ (masculine)

singular	jbḥ
dual	jbḥwj
plural	jbḥw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jbḥ  

jbḥ	jbḥ	jbḥ	jbḥ	jbḥ
			abbreviation	abbreviation

Descendants

• Demotic: ꜣbḥ, ꜣbḥy, ꜣb
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲁⲃϩⲉ (abhe)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲁⲃⲁϩ (abah), ⲁⲃϩ (abh)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲟⲃϩⲉ (obhe), ⲟⲃϩ (obh)

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to laugh, showing one’s teeth [Middle Kingdom literature]

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
jbḥ	jbḥw, jbḥ	jbḥt	jbḥ	jbḥ

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
jbḥ	ḥr jbḥ	m jbḥ	r jbḥ

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	jbḥ.n	consecutive	jbḥ.jn
terminative	jbḥt
perfective3	jbḥ	obligative1	jbḥ.ḫr
imperfective	jbḥ
prospective3	jbḥ	potentialis1	jbḥ.kꜣ
subjunctive	jbḥ

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	jbḥ.n	—	—
perfective	jbḥ	jbḥ	jbḥ, jbḥw5, jbḥy5
imperfective	jbḥ, jbḥy, jbḥw5	jbḥ, jbḥj6, jbḥy6	jbḥ, jbḥw5
prospective	jbḥ, jbḥtj7	jbḥtj4, jbḥt4
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.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ibɛh/
  • Conventional anglicization: ibeh

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive, with m or ẖr) to run or stream with (liquid), to be(come) wet or awash with [Middle Kingdom literature and Medical papyri]

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
jbḥ	jbḥw, jbḥ	jbḥt	jbḥ	jbḥ

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
jbḥ	ḥr jbḥ	m jbḥ	r jbḥ

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	jbḥ.n	consecutive	jbḥ.jn
terminative	jbḥt
perfective3	jbḥ	obligative1	jbḥ.ḫr
imperfective	jbḥ
prospective3	jbḥ	potentialis1	jbḥ.kꜣ
subjunctive	jbḥ

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	jbḥ.n	—	—
perfective	jbḥ	jbḥ	jbḥ, jbḥw5, jbḥy5
imperfective	jbḥ, jbḥy, jbḥw5	jbḥ, jbḥj6, jbḥy6	jbḥ, jbḥw5
prospective	jbḥ, jbḥtj7	jbḥtj4, jbḥt4
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 jbḥ  

jbḥ	jbḥ

Derived terms

• jbḥw

 

References

• “jbḥ (lemma ID 23830)”, “jbḥ (lemma ID 23840)”, and “jbḥ (lemma ID 23850)”, 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 64.2–64.7
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 16