hb

See also: Appendix:Variations of "hb"

English

Noun

hb (plural hbs)

1. (Internet slang) Initialism of homeboy.
   • 2026 April 13, @sauczsa, X (Twitter)‎^[1]:

     Lord if you can hear me fire my hbs so they always have time to play

Verb

hb (third-person singular simple present hbs, present participle hbing, simple past and past participle hbed)

1. Alternative letter-case form of HB (“hard-block”).

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛb/
  • Conventional anglicization: heb

Noun

 m

1. plough [since the Old Kingdom]
   • Early 6th Dynasty, Tomb of Nyankhnesut, Relief of Agricultural Scenes (Cleveland 1930.736), upper register, caption above plowman:

     skꜣ wꜣḥ hb

     Plowing. “Press the plow!”

Inflection

Declension of hb (masculine)

singular	hb
dual	hbwj
plural	hbw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of hb  

hb	hꜣbw	hꜣbꜣ	hbꜣ
	[Middle Kingdom]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]
abbreviation	in hieratic

Descendants

• Bohairic Coptic: ϩⲉⲃⲓ (hebi)
• Sahidic Coptic: ϩⲃ̄ⲃⲉ (hb̄be)

References

• “hb (lemma ID 98010)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[2], Corpus issue 20, Web app version 2.5.0, ed. by Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning […] and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils […], 2004–23 April 2026
• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1928), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[3], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 485.10–485.11
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 158

Spanish

Noun

hb f (uncountable)

1. abbreviation of hora boliviana

Swedish

Noun

hb c

1. alternative letter-case form of HB (“moonshine”)