ꜥꜣb

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑːʔɑb/
  • Conventional anglicization: aab

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive, of things) to be(come) pleasing or desirable [Middle Kingdom literature]
2. (intransitive, of people) to be(come) pleasant, agreeable [Pyramid Texts to 18th Dynasty]
3. (intransitive, of people) to be(come) self-pleasing, selfish [Middle Kingdom literature]

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ꜥꜣb	ꜥꜣbw, ꜥꜣb	ꜥꜣbt	ꜥꜣb	ꜥꜣb

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	ꜥꜣb.n	consecutive	ꜥꜣb.jn
terminative	ꜥꜣbt
perfective3	ꜥꜣb	obligative1	ꜥꜣb.ḫr
imperfective	ꜥꜣb
prospective3	ꜥꜣb	potentialis1	ꜥꜣb.kꜣ
subjunctive	ꜥꜣb

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	ꜥꜣb.n	—	—
perfective	ꜥꜣb	ꜥꜣb	ꜥꜣb, ꜥꜣbw5, ꜥꜣby5
imperfective	ꜥꜣb, ꜥꜣby, ꜥꜣbw5	ꜥꜣb, ꜥꜣbj6, ꜥꜣby6	ꜥꜣb, ꜥꜣbw5
prospective	ꜥꜣb, ꜥꜣbtj7	ꜥꜣbtj4, ꜥꜣbt4
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 ꜥꜣb  

ꜥꜣb	ꜥꜣb	ꜥꜣb
[Pyramid Texts]	[Middle Kingdom]	[18th Dynasty]
interpretation disputed; see the noun below

Derived terms

• ꜥꜣbt

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to make an offering (+ n: to (someone)) [Late Period and Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ꜥꜣb	ꜥꜣbw, ꜥꜣb	ꜥꜣbt	ꜥꜣb	ꜥꜣb

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	ꜥꜣb.n	consecutive	ꜥꜣb.jn
terminative	ꜥꜣbt
perfective3	ꜥꜣb	obligative1	ꜥꜣb.ḫr
imperfective	ꜥꜣb
prospective3	ꜥꜣb	potentialis1	ꜥꜣb.kꜣ
subjunctive	ꜥꜣb

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	ꜥꜣb.n	—	—
perfective	ꜥꜣb	ꜥꜣb	ꜥꜣb, ꜥꜣbw5, ꜥꜣby5
imperfective	ꜥꜣb, ꜥꜣby, ꜥꜣbw5	ꜥꜣb, ꜥꜣbj6, ꜥꜣby6	ꜥꜣb, ꜥꜣbw5
prospective	ꜥꜣb, ꜥꜣbtj7	ꜥꜣbtj4, ꜥꜣbt4
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 ꜥꜣb  

ꜥꜣb

Derived terms

• ꜥꜣbt

Noun

 m

1. a kind of tree [Pyramid Texts and 18th Dynasty]

Usage notes

Some uses of this word admit of multiple possible interpretations, with some authors taking them instead as uses of the verb ‘to be(come) pleasant’ above; Faulkner reads them this way in the occurrences found in the Pyramid Texts.

Inflection

Declension of ꜥꜣb (masculine)

singular	ꜥꜣb
dual	ꜥꜣbwj
plural	ꜥꜣbw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜣb  

ꜥꜣbw

[18th Dynasty]

References

• “ꜥꜣb (lemma ID 35310)”, 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
• “ꜥꜣb (lemma ID 35320)”, 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
• “ꜥꜣb (lemma ID 35300)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[3], 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[4], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 167.6–167.8
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 38