dbꜣ

See also: ḏbꜣ

Egyptian[edit]

3-lit.

(intransitive) to fall, to lose consciousness, to faint
- Tomb of Ankhmahor, relief showing circumcision, Saqqara :
  
  nḏr sw m rḏj dbꜣ.f
  Hold him fast. Do not let him faint.

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
dbꜣ	dbꜣw, dbꜣ	dbꜣt	dbꜣ	dbꜣ

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	dbꜣ.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	dbꜣ	active + .tj¹, .tw²	dbꜣ	dbꜣ, dbꜣw⁵, dbꜣy⁵
imperfective	dbꜣ, dbꜣy, dbꜣw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	dbꜣ, dbꜣj⁶, dbꜣy⁶	dbꜣ, dbꜣw⁵
prospective	dbꜣ, dbꜣtj⁷	—	dbꜣtj⁴, dbꜣt⁴
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.

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 435