zf

See also: ZF and zF

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /zɛf/
  • Conventional anglicization: zef

Verb

 2-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) gentle or mild
2. (intransitive) to be(come) merciful

Inflection

Conjugation of zf (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: zf, geminated stem: zff

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
zf	zfw, zf	zft	zf, j.zf	zf, j.zf

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	zf.n	consecutive	zf.jn
terminative	zft
perfective3	zf	obligative1	zf.ḫr
imperfective	zf, j.zf1
prospective3	zf	potentialis1	zf.kꜣ
subjunctive	zf, j.zf1

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	zf.n	—	—
perfective	zf	zf	zff, zffj6, zf2, zfw2 5, zfy2 5
imperfective	j.zf1, zf, zfy, zfw5	j.zf1, j.zfw1 5, zf, zfj6, zfy6	zf, zfw5
prospective	zf, zftj7	zftj4, zft4
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 zf  

sf	sf

Derived terms

• zfw
• zfn
• zft
• szf

Noun

 m

1. gentleness, mildness, friendliness
2. mercy

Alternative forms

See under the verb above.

References

• “zf (lemma ID 133390)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• “zf (lemma ID 851877)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[2], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[3], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 442.3–442.4
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[4], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 113.18
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 224