Compare with Akkadian𒄿𒊕𒄫(i-šaq-qir/šaqāru, išaqqir/, “to pierce, to decimate”) and Arabicسَقَرَ(saqara, “to strike with hot heat, sunstroke, to burn up or scorch, to hurt or damage especially with heat”).
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.