wꜣr

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɑr/
  • Conventional anglicization: war

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to tie up, to tie together (a net) [Old Kingdom]

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural wꜣr wꜣrw, wꜣr wꜣrt wꜣr wꜣr ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 wꜣr ḥr wꜣr m wꜣr r wꜣr suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect wꜣr.n wꜣrw, wꜣr consecutive wꜣr.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative wꜣrt perfective3 wꜣr active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 wꜣr.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective wꜣr active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 wꜣr wꜣrr potentialis1 wꜣr.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive wꜣr active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect wꜣr.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective wꜣr active + .tj1, .tw2 wꜣr wꜣr, wꜣrw5, wꜣry5 imperfective wꜣr, wꜣry, wꜣrw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 wꜣr, wꜣrj6, wꜣry6 wꜣr, wꜣrw5 prospective wꜣr, wꜣrtj7 — wꜣrtj4, wꜣrt4 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 wꜣr  

wꜣrj

Derived terms

• wꜣrt

Noun

 m

1. (Late Egyptian) a kind of lute or reed pipe

Inflection

Declension of wꜣr (masculine)

singular	wꜣr
dual	wꜣrwj
plural	wꜣrw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wꜣr  

wꜣjr

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to dance (+ n: before (a god)) [Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural wꜣr wꜣrw, wꜣr wꜣrt wꜣr wꜣr ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 wꜣr ḥr wꜣr m wꜣr r wꜣr suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect wꜣr.n consecutive wꜣr.jn terminative wꜣrt perfective3 wꜣr obligative1 wꜣr.ḫr imperfective wꜣr prospective3 wꜣr potentialis1 wꜣr.kꜣ subjunctive wꜣr verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect wꜣr.n — — perfective wꜣr wꜣr wꜣr, wꜣrw5, wꜣry5 imperfective wꜣr, wꜣry, wꜣrw5 wꜣr, wꜣrj6, wꜣry6 wꜣr, wꜣrw5 prospective wꜣr, wꜣrtj7 wꜣrtj4, wꜣrt4 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.

Synonyms

• ḫbj
• jbꜣ

References

• “wꜣr (lemma ID 42920)”, “wꜣr (lemma ID 42960)”, and “wꜣr (lemma ID 42940)”, 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 252.2, 252.11, 252.13