ḫsr

Egyptian

Etymology

Possibly related to Arabic خَسَرَ (ḵasara, “to lose”) or Hebrew חָסֵר (khasér, “absent, missing”).

Pronunciation

Verb
xsr
D40

 3-lit.

  1. (transitive) to dispel, to drive away, to remove

Inflection
Conjugation of ḫsr (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ḫsr, geminated stem: ḫsrr
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
ḫsr
 ḫsrw, ḫsr
 ḫsrt
 ḫsr
 ḫsr
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
ḫsr
 ḥr ḫsr
 m ḫsr
 r ḫsr
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active passive contingent
aspect / mood active passive
perfect ḫsr.n
 ḫsrw, ḫsr
 consecutive ḫsr.jn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative ḫsrt
perfective3 ḫsr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 obligative1 ḫsr.ḫr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective ḫsr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3 ḫsr
 ḫsrr
 potentialis1 ḫsr.kꜣ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive ḫsr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active passive active passive
perfect ḫsr.n
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 — —
perfective ḫsr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 ḫsr
 ḫsr, ḫsrw5, ḫsry5
imperfective ḫsr, ḫsry, ḫsrw5
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 ḫsr, ḫsrj6, ḫsry6
 ḫsr, ḫsrw5
prospective ḫsr, ḫsrtj7
 — ḫsrtj4, ḫsrt4
  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 ḫsr  
X
z
r		 ska
x
r		 s
ẖsr ḫrs
with metathesis

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 338.
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