ꜣbj

Egyptian

Etymology

Compare Hebrew אבה‎ (ʾāḇā, “to be willing”).

Pronunciation

Verb

 3ae inf.

  1. (transitive) to desire, to want, to long for (a thing, a person, or a place) [since the Middle Kingdom]
  2. (transitive or rarely intransitive with n or r, with following infinitive) to want to do [since the Middle Kingdom]
  3. (intransitive, with m, Late Egyptian) to take pleasure at, to be happy about [Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection
Conjugation of ꜣbj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: ꜣb, geminated stem: ꜣbb
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
ꜣbt, ꜣbj
 ꜣbw, ꜣb
 ꜣbt, ꜣbwt, ꜣbyt
 ꜣb
 ꜣb, ꜣby
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
ꜣb8, ꜣbb8
 ḥr ꜣbt, ḥr ꜣbj
 m ꜣbt, m ꜣbj
 r ꜣbt, r ꜣbj
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active passive contingent
aspect / mood active passive
perfect ꜣb.n
 ꜣbw, ꜣb, ꜣby
 consecutive ꜣb.jn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative ꜣbt, ꜣbyt
perfective3 ꜣb
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 obligative ꜣb.ḫr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective ꜣb, ꜣby
 active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3 ꜣbw, ꜣb, ꜣby
 ꜣbw, ꜣb, ꜣby
 potentialis ꜣb.kꜣ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive ꜣb, ꜣby
 active + .tj1, .tw2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active passive active passive
perfect ꜣb.n
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 — —
perfective ꜣbw1, ꜣby, ꜣb
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 ꜣb
 ꜣby, ꜣb
imperfective ꜣbb, ꜣbby, ꜣbbw5
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 ꜣbb, ꜣbbj6, ꜣbby6
 ꜣbb, ꜣbbw5
prospective ꜣbw1, ꜣby, ꜣb, ꜣbtj7
 — ꜣbwtj1 4, ꜣbtj4, ꜣbt4
  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, plural .sn.
  5. Only in the masculine singular.
  6. Only in the masculine.
  7. Only in the feminine.
  8. Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣbj  
ꜣbj ꜣbj ꜣbw ꜣbj ꜣbj jbj jꜣbj ꜣbj
[New Kingdom,
Greco-Roman Period]		 [New Kingdom,
Greco-Roman Period]		 [New Kingdom] [Greco-Roman Period] [Greco-Roman Period] [Greco-Roman Period] [Greco-Roman Period] [Greco-Roman Period]
in papyri

Derived terms

References
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 171.
  • Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 6.24–7.7
  • Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 2
  • Wilson, Penelope (1991) A Lexicographical Study of the Ptolemaic Texts in the Temple of Edfu, Liverpool: University of Liverpool, page 7–8
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