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From ꜣb (“to tarry, avoid, cease”).
m
- cessation (+ m: cessation of (something))
This word is usually negated. It is almost exclusively used
- in the negated phrases (nn ꜣbw), (nj wnt ꜣbw), (nj ḫpr ꜣbw), and in Late Egyptian (bn ꜣbw), to mean “unceasing, without end”; or
- as part of (jrj ꜣbw, “to cease”) and its infinitive (jrt ꜣbw, “cessation”), themselves often negated with nn, bn, tm, etc.
Declension of ꜣbw (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣbw
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ꜣb
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ꜣb
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ꜣb
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ꜣb
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From Proto-Afroasiatic *leb- (compare Tangale labata, Mukulu ʾelbi).[1]
Likely related to ꜣb (“fingernail”) via the ‘ivory, tusk’ sense.
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- elephant [Old Kingdom to New Kingdom]
Declension of ꜣbw (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣbw
- →? Ancient Greek: ἐλέφας (eléphas) (see there for further descendants)
m
- elephant tusk [Since the Middle Kingdom]
- ivory [Since the Middle Kingdom]
Declension of ꜣbw (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣbw
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m./f. topo.
- Elephantine (modern Aswan)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣbw
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ꜣbw
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ꜣb
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣbw
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Related to ꜣbt (“brand”).
3-lit.
- (transitive) to brand (cattle or slaves) (+ m or + ḥr: to brand with (a seal or name, etc.)) [since New Kingdom literature]
- (transitive) to scorch (the skin)
Conjugation of ꜣbw (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ꜣbw
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imperative
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| infinitive
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negatival complement
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complementary infinitive1
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singular
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plural
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ꜣbw
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ꜣbww, ꜣbw
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ꜣbwt
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ꜣbw
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ꜣbw
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| stative stem
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periphrastic imperfective2
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periphrastic prospective2
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ꜣbw
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ḥr ꜣbw
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m ꜣbw
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r ꜣbw
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| suffix conjugation
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| aspect / mood
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active
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passive
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contingent
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| aspect / mood
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active
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passive
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| perfect
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ꜣbw.n
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ꜣbww, ꜣbw
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consecutive
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ꜣbw.jn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| terminative
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ꜣbwt
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| perfective3
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ꜣbw
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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obligative1
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ꜣbw.ḫr
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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ꜣbw
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| prospective3
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ꜣbw
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ꜣbw
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potentialis1
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ꜣbw.kꜣ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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ꜣbw
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms
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participles
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passive
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active
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passive
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ꜣbw.n
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| perfective
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ꜣbw
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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ꜣbw
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ꜣbw, ꜣbww5, ꜣbwy5
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ꜣbw, ꜣbwy, ꜣbww5
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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ꜣbw, ꜣbwj6, ꜣbwy6
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ꜣbw, ꜣbww5
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ꜣbw, ꜣbwtj7
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ꜣbwtj4, ꜣbwt4
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- 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.
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣbw
m
- (Late Egyptian) brand, branding iron
Declension of ꜣbw (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣbw
m
- (medicine) a substance used medicinally
Declension of ꜣbw (masculine)
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 2
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 6.9–6.23, 7.15–7.20, 7.22
- Wilson, Penelope (1991) A Lexicographical Study of the Ptolemaic Texts in the Temple of Edfu, Liverpool: University of Liverpool, pages 7–9
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 339.
- Erichsen, Wolja (1954) Demotisches Glossar, Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, page 49
- Janet H. Johnson, editor (2001), The Demotic Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago[2], volume Y (01.1), Chicago: The University of Chicago, pages 7–10
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E., Stolbova, Olga V. (1995) “*leb-”, in Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.18), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, § 1662, page 360
