qrs

See also: QRS

English

Noun

qrs

1. plural of qr

Anagrams

• QSR, sqr, sqr.

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (verb): (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈqʼaːɾas/ → /qʼaːʔas/ → /qʼaːʔəs/ → /qʼoːʔəs/

• (verb): (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈqʼaːɾas/
• (verb): (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /qʼaːʔas/, with analogical leveling of /ɾ/ to /ʔ/ from the form /qʼaːɾs/⸗ with attached suffix pronoun
• (verb): (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /qʼaːʔəs/
• (verb): (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /qʼoːʔəs/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /kɛrɛs/
  • Conventional anglicization: qeres

Noun

 m

1. sepulchre

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to bury
   • c. 1930 BCE, Stela of Intef (British Museum, Egyptian Antiquities 562):

     †

     
     († The hieroglyph [sic] is inverted.)

     jw qrs.n.j jꜣ(w) ḥbs.n.j hꜣy

     I buried the old and I clothed the naked.

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
qrs	qrsw, qrs	qrst	qrs	qrs

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	qrs.n	qrsw, qrs	consecutive	qrs.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	qrst
perfective3	qrs	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	qrs.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	qrs	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	qrs	qrss	potentialis1	qrs.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	qrs	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	qrs.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	qrs	active + .tj1, .tw2	qrs	qrs, qrsw5, qrsy5
imperfective	qrs, qrsy, qrsw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	qrs, qrsj6, qrsy6	qrs, qrsw5
prospective	qrs, qrstj7	—	qrstj4, qrst4
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 forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of qrs  

qrs	qrs
with final hieroglyph inverted, apparently a scribal error.

Derived terms

• qrsw
• qrst

 

Descendants

• Demotic: qs
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲕⲱⲥ (kōs)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲕⲱⲱⲥⲓ (kōōsi)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲕⲱⲱⲥ (kōōs), ⲕⲱⲛⲥ (kōns), ⲕⲱⲱⲥⲉ (kōōse)