ꜥḥ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑːh/
  • Conventional anglicization: ah

Noun

  m./f. topo.

1. palace; building housing the king or his administration

   Synonym: pr-nswt

2. temple (as the palace of a god)

   Synonym: pr-nswt

   ― ꜥḥ ntr(j) ― divine temple

3. celestial dwelling of a god

Inflection

Declension of ꜥḥ (masculine)

singular	ꜥḥ
dual	ꜥḥwj
plural	ꜥḥw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥḥ  

ꜥḥ	ꜥḥ	ꜥḥ	ꜥḥ	ꜥḥ	jḥ
	[Old Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]

Derived terms

• jmj-ꜥḥ
• ꜥḥ-wr
• nb-ꜥḥ
• ḥr-m-ꜥḥ.f
• ḥr-nb-ꜥḥ

 

Verb

 2-lit.

1. (transitive) to snare; to capture (game) with a net or rope
2. (transitive, figuratively) to capture or seize (enemies, body parts, etc.)
3. (transitive, figuratively) to enclose (someone with one’s arms, a settlement with a ditch, etc.)

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ꜥḥ	ꜥḥw, ꜥḥ	ꜥḥt	ꜥḥ, j.ꜥḥ	ꜥḥ, j.ꜥḥ

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	ꜥḥ.n	ꜥḥw, ꜥḥ	consecutive	ꜥḥ.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	ꜥḥt
perfective3	ꜥḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	ꜥḥ.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	ꜥḥ, j.ꜥḥ1	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	ꜥḥ	ꜥḥḥ	potentialis1	ꜥḥ.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	ꜥḥ, j.ꜥḥ1	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	ꜥḥ.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	ꜥḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2	ꜥḥ	ꜥḥḥ, ꜥḥḥj6, ꜥḥ2, ꜥḥw2 5, ꜥḥy2 5
imperfective	j.ꜥḥ1, ꜥḥ, ꜥḥy, ꜥḥw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	j.ꜥḥ1, j.ꜥḥw1 5, ꜥḥ, ꜥḥj6, ꜥḥy6	ꜥḥ, ꜥḥw5
prospective	ꜥḥ, ꜥḥtj7	—	ꜥḥtj4, ꜥḥt4
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 ꜥḥ  

jḥ	ꜥḥ
[Middle and New Kingdoms]	[18th Dynasty]

Verb

 2-lit.

1. (transitive) to wipe off, to wipe away (moisture, tears, dirt, etc.)
2. (transitive) to dry off after a bath

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ꜥḥ	ꜥḥw, ꜥḥ	ꜥḥt	ꜥḥ, j.ꜥḥ	ꜥḥ, j.ꜥḥ

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	ꜥḥ.n	ꜥḥw, ꜥḥ	consecutive	ꜥḥ.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	ꜥḥt
perfective3	ꜥḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	ꜥḥ.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	ꜥḥ, j.ꜥḥ1	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	ꜥḥ	ꜥḥḥ	potentialis1	ꜥḥ.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	ꜥḥ, j.ꜥḥ1	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	ꜥḥ.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	ꜥḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2	ꜥḥ	ꜥḥḥ, ꜥḥḥj6, ꜥḥ2, ꜥḥw2 5, ꜥḥy2 5
imperfective	j.ꜥḥ1, ꜥḥ, ꜥḥy, ꜥḥw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	j.ꜥḥ1, j.ꜥḥw1 5, ꜥḥ, ꜥḥj6, ꜥḥy6	ꜥḥ, ꜥḥw5
prospective	ꜥḥ, ꜥḥtj7	—	ꜥḥtj4, ꜥḥt4
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 ꜥḥ  

jḥ

[New Kingdom]

Derived terms

• ꜥḥ-rmyt

Noun

 m

1. rope, cord (of a net or ferry) [Pyramid Texts and Book of the Dead]

Inflection

Declension of ꜥḥ (masculine)

singular	ꜥḥ
dual	ꜥḥwj
plural	ꜥḥw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥḥ  

jḥ

[Book of the Dead]

References

• “ꜥḥ (lemma ID 39850)”, “ꜥḥ (lemma ID 39820)”, “ꜥḥ (lemma ID 39830)”, and “ꜥḥ (lemma ID 39810)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 213.15–213.19, 214.2–214.3, 214.10–214.21
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 46
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 135, 181.