db

Uncertain. Possibly related to db (“horn, tusk”); compare the possible relation between ḫꜣb (“hippopotamus”) and ḫꜣb (“to be bent”) (in reference to the animal’s tusks).

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /dɛb/
  • Conventional anglicization: deb

 m

1. hippopotamus
2. skin or fat of the hippopotamus, used medicinally

Possibly a doublet of ꜥb (“horn”), according to the Rösslerian school of Egyptian comparison.

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /dɛb/
  • Conventional anglicization: deb

 m

1. horn (of oxen, gazelles, etc.)
2. tusk
3. hollowed-out horn for holding oil, used by Asiatics
4. horn of the moon
5. (by extension) wing or flank of an army [18th Dynasty]
6. (by extension) prick, sting [Greco-Roman Period]

• Demotic: tp
  • Coptic: ⲧⲁⲡ (tap)

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 433.14–433.17, 434.3–434.6
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 310–311
• Wilson, Penelope (1991) A Lexicographical Study of the Ptolemaic Texts in the Temple of Edfu, Liverpool: University of Liverpool, pages 2084–2085

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɒrɒb]

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db (plural db-ok)

1. Abbreviation of darab (“piece, chunk”).

There is no period after 'db' as an exception in Hungarian language.

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	db	db-ok
accusative	db-ot	db-okat
dative	db-nak	db-oknak
instrumental	db-bal	db-okkal
causal-final	db-ért	db-okért
translative	db-bá	db-okká
terminative	db-ig	db-okig
essive-formal	db-ként	db-okként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	db-ban	db-okban
superessive	db-on	db-okon
adessive	db-nál	db-oknál
illative	db-ba	db-okba
sublative	db-ra	db-okra
allative	db-hoz	db-okhoz
elative	db-ból	db-okból
delative	db-ról	db-okról
ablative	db-tól	db-októl
non-attributive possessive - singular	db-é	db-oké
non-attributive possessive - plural	db-éi	db-okéi

Possessive forms of db
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	db-om	db-jaim
2nd person sing.	db-od	db-jaid
3rd person sing.	db-ja	db-jai
1st person plural	db-unk	db-jaink
2nd person plural	db-otok	db-jaitok
3rd person plural	db-juk	db-jaik

db

1. Abbreviation of deadjabaste (“teaspoon”).