dp

See also: DP and D/P

Egyptian

2-lit.

(transitive) to taste (a food, a drink, a taste) [since the Pyramid Texts]
(transitive, figuratively) to go through, to experience (a bad feeling or event) [since the Old Kingdom]
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) line 124:
  
  ršwj sḏd dpt.n.f zn ḫt mr
  How joyful is he who recounts what he has experienced when a painful thing passes!
(transitive, figuratively) to feel, to sense [New Kingdom]

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
dp	dpw, dp	dpt	dp, j.dp	dp, j.dp

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	dp.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	dp	active + .tj¹, .tw²	dp	dpp, dppj⁶, dp², dpw^{2 5}, dpy^{2 5}
imperfective	j.dp¹, dp, dpy, dpw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	j.dp¹, j.dpw^{1 5}, dp, dpj⁶, dpy⁶	dp, dpw⁵
prospective	dp, dptj⁷	—	dptj⁴, dpt⁴
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 dp

dp

[Old Kingdom]

[since the Middle Kingdom]

[Late Period]

especially in hieratic

m

a city in Lower Egypt that, together with the city of p, later formed the combined city of Buto [since the Old Kingdom]

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of dp

dp

[Late and Greco-Roman Periods]

dp

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 443.1, 443.7–444.15
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 312
Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 93