sbḥ

See also: SbH₃

Egyptian

Possibly related to Arabic سَبَّحَ (sabbaḥa, “to praise, to glorify”) and Hebrew שבח (shibéakh, “to praise, to appreciate”).

3-lit.

(intransitive) to cry out, to scream (in pain or lamentation) [since the Pyramid Texts]
(intransitive, of birds) to produce a birdcall, to cry, to call

Conjugation of sbḥ (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: sbḥ, geminated stem: sbḥḥ

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
sbḥ	sbḥw, sbḥ	sbḥt	sbḥ	sbḥ

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
sbḥ	ḥr sbḥ	m sbḥ	r sbḥ

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
aspect / mood	active	active	passive
perfect	sbḥ.n	—	—
perfective	sbḥ	sbḥ	sbḥ, sbḥw⁵, sbḥy⁵
imperfective	sbḥ, sbḥy, sbḥw⁵	sbḥ, sbḥj⁶, sbḥy⁶	sbḥ, sbḥw⁵
prospective	sbḥ, sbḥtj⁷	sbḥtj⁴, sbḥt⁴
Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 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. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sbḥ

sbḥ

[Pyramid Texts]

[since the Pyramid Texts]

[since the Middle Kingdom]

m

Declension of sbḥ (masculine)

See under the verb above.

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 90.11–91.7
Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 112

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