sqbḥ

Egyptian

Etymology

s- (causative prefix) +‎ qbḥ (“to libate, to purify, to be cool”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛkɛbɛh/
  • Conventional anglicization: seqebeh

Verb

 caus. 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to refresh (the heart or the dead) (+ m: with (water or offerings)) [Pyramid Texts and Middle Kingdom]
2. (intransitive) to give ease (+ n: to)

Inflection

Conjugation of sqbḥ (causative triliteral / caus. 3-lit. / caus. 3rad.) — base stem: sqbḥ

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural sqbḥ sqbḥw, sqbḥ sqbḥt sqbḥ sqbḥ ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 sqbḥ ḥr sqbḥ m sqbḥ r sqbḥ suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect sqbḥ.n sqbḥw, sqbḥ consecutive sqbḥ.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative sqbḥt perfective3 sqbḥ active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 sqbḥ.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective sqbḥ active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 sqbḥw, sqbḥ, sqbḥy sqbḥw, sqbḥ, sqbḥy potentialis1 sqbḥ.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive sqbḥ active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect sqbḥ.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective sqbḥ active + .tj1, .tw2 sqbḥ sqbḥ, sqbḥw5, sqbḥy5 imperfective sqbḥ, sqbḥy, sqbḥw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 sqbḥ, sqbḥj6, sqbḥy6 sqbḥ, sqbḥw5 prospective sqbḥ, sqbḥtj7 — sqbḥwtj1 4, sqbḥtj4, sqbḥt4 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 sqbḥ  

sqbḥ	sqbḥ	sqbḥ
[Pyramid Texts]	[Pyramid Texts]	[Middle Kingdom]

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 305.14–305.15
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 250