ḫfꜥ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /xɛfɑː/
  • Conventional anglicization: khefa

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to grasp, to seize

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ḫfꜥ	ḫfꜥw, ḫfꜥ	ḫfꜥt	ḫfꜥ	ḫfꜥ

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	ḫfꜥ.n	ḫfꜥw, ḫfꜥ	consecutive	ḫfꜥ.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	ḫfꜥt
perfective3	ḫfꜥ	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	ḫfꜥ.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	ḫfꜥ	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	ḫfꜥ	ḫfꜥꜥ	potentialis1	ḫfꜥ.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	ḫfꜥ	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	ḫfꜥ.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	ḫfꜥ	active + .tj1, .tw2	ḫfꜥ	ḫfꜥ, ḫfꜥw5, ḫfꜥy5
imperfective	ḫfꜥ, ḫfꜥy, ḫfꜥw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	ḫfꜥ, ḫfꜥj6, ḫfꜥy6	ḫfꜥ, ḫfꜥw5
prospective	ḫfꜥ, ḫfꜥtj7	—	ḫfꜥtj4, ḫfꜥt4
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.

Synonyms

• ꜣmm
• nḏrj
• jṯj

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 291.