ḥqr

Egyptian

Pronunciation
 
  • (verb): (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ħaˈqʼaɾ/ → /ħaˈqʼaʔ/ → /ħəˈqʼaʔ/ → /ħəˈqʼaʔ/

Verb
Hq
r		 A2

 3-lit.

  1. (intransitive) to be(come) hungry
    • c. 1944 BCE, (year 17 of the reign of Senusret I), Stela of Mentuwoser (MMA 12.184), lines 11–12:
      D35A
      sDr
      r      		 D37
      A55      		 z&A1 Hq
      r      		 wnDsr
      d      		 miiN23A1
      nj sḏr z ḥqr.w r dmj.j
      No one went to bed hungry in my district.

Inflection
Conjugation of ḥqr (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ḥqr, geminated stem: ḥqrr
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
ḥqr
 ḥqrw, ḥqr
 ḥqrt
 ḥqr
 ḥqr
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
ḥqr
 ḥr ḥqr
 m ḥqr
 r ḥqr
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect ḥqr.n
 consecutive ḥqr.jn
terminative ḥqrt
perfective3 ḥqr
 obligative1 ḥqr.ḫr
imperfective ḥqr
prospective3 ḥqr
 potentialis1 ḥqr.kꜣ
subjunctive ḥqr
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect ḥqr.n
 — —
perfective ḥqr
 ḥqr
 ḥqr, ḥqrw5, ḥqry5
imperfective ḥqr, ḥqry, ḥqrw5
 ḥqr, ḥqrj6, ḥqry6
 ḥqr, ḥqrw5
prospective ḥqr, ḥqrtj7
 ḥqrtj4, ḥqrt4
  1. Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian.
  2. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian.
  3. 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.
  4. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn.
  5. Only in the masculine singular.
  6. Only in the masculine.
  7. Only in the feminine.

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥqr  
Hq
r		 nDs
ḥqr

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Coptic: ϩⲕⲟ (hko) (Sahidic, Akhmimic, Lycopolitan, Bohairic)

Noun
Hq
r		 A2

 m

  1. hunger

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥqr  
Hq
r		 nDs
ḥqr

Descendants
  • Coptic: ϩⲕⲟ (hko) (Sahidic, Akhmimic, Lycopolitan, Bohairic)

Noun
Hq
r		 A2A1

 m

  1. hungry man

Inflection
Declension of ḥqr (masculine)
singular ḥqr
dual ḥqrwj
plural ḥqrw

Descendants
  • Coptic: ϩⲏⲕⲉ (hēke) (Sahidic, Akhmimic, Lycopolitan)

References
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 219, 235, 254.
  • Gardiner, Alan (1957) Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, § 23, page 31
  1. Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 248
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