zf

See also: ZF and zF

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /zɛf/
  • Conventional anglicization: zef

Verb

 2-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) gentle or mild
2. (intransitive) to be(come) merciful

Inflection

Conjugation of zf (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: zf, geminated stem: zff

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural zf zfw, zf zft zf, j.zf zf, j.zf ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 zf ḥr zf m zf r zf suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect zf.n consecutive zf.jn terminative zft perfective3 zf obligative1 zf.ḫr imperfective zf, j.zf1 prospective3 zf potentialis1 zf.kꜣ subjunctive zf, j.zf1 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect zf.n — — perfective zf zf zff, zffj6, zf2, zfw2 5, zfy2 5 imperfective j.zf1, zf, zfy, zfw5 j.zf1, j.zfw1 5, zf, zfj6, zfy6 zf, zfw5 prospective zf, zftj7 zftj4, zft4 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 zf  

sf	sf

Derived terms

• zfw
• zfn
• zft
• szf

Noun

 m

1. gentleness, mildness, friendliness
2. mercy

Alternative forms

See under the verb above.

References

• “zf (lemma ID 133390)” and “zf (lemma ID 851877)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1929), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 442.3–442.4
• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1930), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 113.18
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 224