wbn

See also: WBN and WbN

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb

 3-lit.

  1. (intransitive) to shine
  2. (intransitive, of the sun or inundation) to rise
    • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 12–13:





















      ḫꜥ ḥr nst nt (j)t.f mj rꜥ wbn.f m ꜣḫt rdj.f šsp n ḥr(j) kkw sḥḏ.n.f šw m šwtj.fj bꜥḥ.n.f tꜣwj mj jṯn m tp-dwꜣyt
      One shining forth on the throne of his father like Ra when he rises in the Akhet, he gave light to what was covered by darkness, having brightened the air with his two plumes, having flooded the Two Lands (Egypt) like the sun disk at the break of dawn.

Inflection
Conjugation of wbn (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: wbn, geminated stem: wbnn
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
wbn
 wbnw, wbn
 wbnt
 wbn
 wbn
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
wbn
 ḥr wbn
 m wbn
 r wbn
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect wbn.n
 consecutive wbn.jn
terminative wbnt
perfective3 wbn
 obligative1 wbn.ḫr
imperfective wbn
prospective3 wbn
 potentialis1 wbn.kꜣ
subjunctive wbn
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect wbn.n
 — —
perfective wbn
 wbn
 wbn, wbnw5, wbny5
imperfective wbn, wbny, wbnw5
 wbn, wbnj6, wbny6
 wbn, wbnw5
prospective wbn, wbntj7
 wbntj4, wbnt4
  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 wbn  
wbn

Derived terms

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 254.
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