wbn

See also: WBN and WbN

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛbɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: weben

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

• wbnw
• wbnt

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.