ḫm

See also: hm, HM, .hm, h'm, and H.M.

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb

 2-lit.

  1. (transitive) to remain ignorant of; to not know or learn

Inflection
Conjugation of ḫm (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: ḫm, geminated stem: ḫmm
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
ḫm
 ḫmw, ḫm
 ḫmt
 ḫm, j.ḫm
 ḫm, j.ḫm
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
ḫm
 ḥr ḫm
 m ḫm
 r ḫm
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active passive contingent
aspect / mood active passive
perfect ḫm.n
 ḫmw, ḫm
 consecutive ḫm.jn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative ḫmt
perfective3 ḫm
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 obligative ḫm.ḫr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective ḫm, j.ḫm1
 active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3 ḫm
 ḫmm
 potentialis ḫm.kꜣ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive ḫm, j.ḫm1
 active + .tj1, .tw2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active passive active passive
perfect ḫm.n
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 — —
perfective ḫm
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 ḫm
 ḫmm, ḫmmj6, ḫm2, ḫmw2 5, ḫmy2 5
imperfective j.ḫm1, ḫm, ḫmy, ḫmw5
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 j.ḫm1, j.ḫmw1 5, ḫm, ḫmj6, ḫmy6
 ḫm, ḫmw5
prospective ḫm, ḫmtj7
 — ḫmtj4, ḫmt4
  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, plural .sn.
  5. Only in the masculine singular.
  6. Only in the masculine.
  7. Only in the feminine.

Antonyms

Derived terms

Proper noun

 m./f. topo.

  1. Letopolis
    • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 1–2:











      špss kꜣ pw ḫnt(j) ḏdw wr ẖrt m ḫm nb hnw m ꜥnḏtj ḫnt(j) ḏf(ꜣ) m jwnw
      He is noble of ka, this foremost one of Busiris, great of possessions in Letopolis, possessor of acclaim in (the nome of) Anedjti, foremost of provisions in Heliopolis, […]

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḫm  
ḫm

Descendants
  • → English: Khem

References
  • Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 278.5–280.5, 280.15
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 284.
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