ꜣpd

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Noun

 m

  1. a bird in general
    • Tomb of Senbi, Rock Tombs at Meir:[1]

      ꜥmꜥꜣ r ꜣpdw
      Throwing at the birds.
  2. small waterfowl, perhaps particularly a duck

Usage notes
Note that the bird hieroglyph is G38
, not the nearly identical G39
.

Inflection
Declension of ꜣpd (masculine)
singular ꜣpd
dual ꜣpdwj
plural ꜣpdw

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣpd  

ꜣpd ꜣpd jpd
abbreviation abbreviation in the
offering formula		 sporadic

Derived terms
  • ꜣpd ḏrḏr
  • grg-ꜣpd

Proper noun

 m

  1. (astronomy) a constellation, literally ‘the Bird’, corresponding to modern Triangulum and Perseus

Verb

 3-lit.

  1. (intransitive) to come hastening, to rush onward (+ r: to, towards)
  2. (intransitive, of the heart) to beat more quickly

Inflection
Conjugation of ꜣpd (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ꜣpd, geminated stem: ꜣpdd
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
ꜣpd
 ꜣpdw, ꜣpd
 ꜣpdt
 ꜣpd
 ꜣpd
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
ꜣpd
 ḥr ꜣpd
 m ꜣpd
 r ꜣpd
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect ꜣpd.n
 consecutive ꜣpd.jn
terminative ꜣpdt
perfective3 ꜣpd
 obligative ꜣpd.ḫr
imperfective ꜣpd
prospective3 ꜣpd
 potentialis ꜣpd.kꜣ
subjunctive ꜣpd
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect ꜣpd.n
 — —
perfective ꜣpd
 ꜣpd
 ꜣpd, ꜣpdw5, ꜣpdy5
imperfective ꜣpd, ꜣpdy, ꜣpdw5
 ꜣpd, ꜣpdj6, ꜣpdy6
 ꜣpd, ꜣpdw5
prospective ꜣpd, ꜣpdtj7
 ꜣpdtj4, ꜣpdt4
  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.

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣpd  
ꜣpd

References
  • Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 9.5–9.8, 9.12–9.14
  • Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 3
  • Faulkner, Raymond (1952) “ꜣpd = ‘duck’” in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 38, p. 128
  1. A. M. Blackman, The Rock Tombs of Meir, Vol. 1, pl. 2
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