wbn

See also: WBN and WbN

Egyptian

3-lit.

(intransitive) to shine
(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.

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
aspect / mood	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
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 wbn

wbn

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.