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
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 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.