ꜣpd

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑpɛd/
  • Conventional anglicization: aped

Noun

 m

1. a bird in general
   • Tomb of Senbi, Rock Tombs at Meir:

     ꜥmꜥꜣ r ꜣpdw

     Throwing at the birds.

2. small waterfowl, perhaps particularly a duck

Usage notes

Note that the bird hieroglyph is G38 , not the nearly identical G39 .

Inflection

Declension of ꜣpd (masculine)

singular	ꜣpd
dual	ꜣpdwj
plural	ꜣpdw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣpd  

ꜣpd	ꜣpd	jpd
abbreviation	abbreviation in the offering formula	sporadic

Derived terms

• ꜣpd ḏrḏr
• grg-ꜣpd

 

Proper noun

 m

1. (astronomy) a constellation, literally ‘the Bird’, corresponding to modern Triangulum and Perseus

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to come hastening, to rush onward (+ r: to, towards)
2. (intransitive, of the heart) to beat more quickly

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ꜣpd	ꜣpdw, ꜣpd	ꜣpdt	ꜣpd	ꜣpd

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

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	ꜣpd.n	—	—
perfective	ꜣpd	ꜣpd	ꜣpd, ꜣpdw5, ꜣpdy5
imperfective	ꜣpd, ꜣpdy, ꜣpdw5	ꜣpd, ꜣpdj6, ꜣpdy6	ꜣpd, ꜣpdw5
prospective	ꜣpd, ꜣpdtj7	ꜣpdtj4, ꜣpdt4
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 ꜣpd  

ꜣpd

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 9.5–9.8, 9.12–9.14
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 3
• Faulkner, Raymond (1952) “ꜣpd = ‘duck’” in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 38, p. 128