qmꜣ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /kɛmɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: qema

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to throw
2. (transitive) to create

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural qmꜣ qmꜣw, qmꜣ qmꜣt qmꜣ qmꜣ ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 qmꜣ ḥr qmꜣ m qmꜣ r qmꜣ suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect qmꜣ.n qmꜣw, qmꜣ consecutive qmꜣ.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative qmꜣt perfective3 qmꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 qmꜣ.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective qmꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 qmꜣ qmꜣꜣ potentialis1 qmꜣ.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive qmꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect qmꜣ.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective qmꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 qmꜣ qmꜣ, qmꜣw5, qmꜣy5 imperfective qmꜣ, qmꜣy, qmꜣw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 qmꜣ, qmꜣj6, qmꜣy6 qmꜣ, qmꜣw5 prospective qmꜣ, qmꜣtj7 — qmꜣtj4, qmꜣt4 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 qmꜣ  

qmꜣ	qmꜣ	qmꜣ

Noun

 m

1. form, appearance, nature

Inflection

Declension of qmꜣ (masculine)

singular	qmꜣ
dual	qmꜣwj
plural	qmꜣw

Noun

 m

1. creator

Inflection

Declension of qmꜣ (masculine)

singular	qmꜣ
dual	qmꜣwj
plural	qmꜣw

References

• “qmꜣ (lemma ID 854564)”, “qmꜣ (lemma ID 160540)”, “qmꜣ (lemma ID 160590)”, and “qmꜣ (lemma ID 160580)”, 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 (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 33.7–33.16, 34.3–36.7, 36.9–36.15, 36.16–37.6
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 278
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 121, 315, 365–366.