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
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 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
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.

Synonyms

• ḫbj
• jbꜣ

References

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