bḥ

See also: bh, Bh, BH, .bh, bh', B"H, and B&H

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /bɛh/
  • Conventional anglicization: beh

Verb

 2-lit.

1. (intransitive, Late Egyptian) to be(come) obligated to perform corvee labor

Inflection

Conjugation of bḥ (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: bḥ, geminated stem: bḥḥ

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
bḥ	bḥw, bḥ	bḥt	bḥ, j.bḥ	bḥ, j.bḥ

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	bḥ.n	consecutive	bḥ.jn
terminative	bḥt
perfective3	bḥ	obligative1	bḥ.ḫr
imperfective	bḥ, j.bḥ1
prospective3	bḥ	potentialis1	bḥ.kꜣ
subjunctive	bḥ, j.bḥ1

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	bḥ.n	—	—
perfective	bḥ	bḥ	bḥḥ, bḥḥj6, bḥ2, bḥw2 5, bḥy2 5
imperfective	j.bḥ1, bḥ, bḥy, bḥw5	j.bḥ1, j.bḥw1 5, bḥ, bḥj6, bḥy6	bḥ, bḥw5
prospective	bḥ, bḥtj7	bḥtj4, bḥt4
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.

Derived terms

• bḥw

Noun

?

1. (Late Egyptian) an agent for tanning leather

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of bḥ  

bḥw

Noun

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1. a kind of plant [Greco-Roman Period]

References

• “bḥ (lemma ID 56800)”, 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
• “bḥ (lemma ID 56780)”, 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
• “bḥ (lemma ID 56790)”, 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 468.5–468.7