nḫbḫb

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛxɛbxɛb/
  • Conventional anglicization: nekhebkheb

Verb

 5-lit.

1. (intransitive, usually of a door-bolt or door) to draw back, to open

Inflection

Conjugation of nḫbḫb (quinquiliteral / 5-lit. / 5rad.) — base stem: nḫbḫb

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
nḫbḫb	nḫbḫbw, nḫbḫb	nḫbḫbt	nḫbḫb	nḫbḫb

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	nḫbḫb.n	consecutive	nḫbḫb.jn
terminative	nḫbḫbt
perfective3	nḫbḫb	obligative1	nḫbḫb.ḫr
imperfective	nḫbḫb
prospective3	nḫbḫbw, nḫbḫb	potentialis1	nḫbḫb.kꜣ
subjunctive	nḫbḫb

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	nḫbḫb.n	—	—
perfective	nḫbḫb	nḫbḫb	nḫbḫb, nḫbḫbw5, nḫbḫby5
imperfective	nḫbḫb, nḫbḫby, nḫbḫbw5	nḫbḫb, nḫbḫbj6, nḫbḫby6	nḫbḫb, nḫbḫbw5
prospective	nḫbḫb, nḫbḫbtj7	nḫbḫbwtj1 4, nḫbḫbtj4, nḫbḫbt4
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.

Derived terms

• snḫbḫb

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 158.