ḏnb

See also: DNB

Egyptian

Possibly from Proto-Afro-Asiatic *ḳrb- or *ḳlb-; compare the root of Arabic انقلب‎ (“to be overturned”).^[1]

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛnɛb/
- Conventional anglicization: djeneb

3-lit.

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
ḏnb	ḏnbw, ḏnb	ḏnbt	ḏnb	ḏnb

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
aspect / mood	active	active	passive
perfect	ḏnb.n	—	—
perfective	ḏnb	ḏnb	ḏnb, ḏnbw⁵, ḏnby⁵
imperfective	ḏnb, ḏnby, ḏnbw⁵	ḏnb, ḏnbj⁶, ḏnby⁶	ḏnb, ḏnbw⁵
prospective	ḏnb, ḏnbtj⁷	ḏnbtj⁴, ḏnbt⁴
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, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine.

Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926-1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 576.2, 576.5

↑ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 32

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