ꜣzb

Egyptian

Etymology

Perhaps compare nsbw (“flame”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑzɛb/
  • Conventional anglicization: azeb

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to glow fiercely, to burn

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ꜣzb	ꜣzbw, ꜣzb	ꜣzbt	ꜣzb	ꜣzb

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

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	ꜣzb.n	—	—
perfective	ꜣzb	ꜣzb	ꜣzb, ꜣzbw5, ꜣzby5
imperfective	ꜣzb, ꜣzby, ꜣzbw5	ꜣzb, ꜣzbj6, ꜣzby6	ꜣzb, ꜣzbw5
prospective	ꜣzb, ꜣzbtj7	ꜣzbtj4, ꜣzbt4
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 ꜣzb  

ꜣsb

Derived terms

• ꜣsbyw

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 20.18
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 5