منبر

Arabic

مِنْبَر

Etymology

By form a tool noun from نَبَرَ (nabara, “to raise the voice, to shout”); however this derivation is too large a leap, thus it is borrowed from Ge'ez መንበር (mänbär, “seat”), regularly formed from ነበረ (näbärä, “to sit”) as Arabic مَجْلِس (majlis) from جَلَسَ (jalasa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /min.bar/

Noun

مِنْبَر • (minbar) m (plural مَنَابِر (manābir))

1. minbar, pulpit
2. platform

Declension

Declension of noun مِنْبَر (minbar)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مِنْبَر minbar	الْمِنْبَر al-minbar	مِنْبَر minbar
Nominative	مِنْبَرٌ minbarun	الْمِنْبَرُ al-minbaru	مِنْبَرُ minbaru
Accusative	مِنْبَرًا minbaran	الْمِنْبَرَ al-minbara	مِنْبَرَ minbara
Genitive	مِنْبَرٍ minbarin	الْمِنْبَرِ al-minbari	مِنْبَرِ minbari
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مِنْبَرَيْن minbarayn	الْمِنْبَرَيْن al-minbarayn	مِنْبَرَيْ minbaray
Nominative	مِنْبَرَانِ minbarāni	الْمِنْبَرَانِ al-minbarāni	مِنْبَرَا minbarā
Accusative	مِنْبَرَيْنِ minbarayni	الْمِنْبَرَيْنِ al-minbarayni	مِنْبَرَيْ minbaray
Genitive	مِنْبَرَيْنِ minbarayni	الْمِنْبَرَيْنِ al-minbarayni	مِنْبَرَيْ minbaray
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَنَابِر manābir	الْمَنَابِر al-manābir	مَنَابِر manābir
Nominative	مَنَابِرُ manābiru	الْمَنَابِرُ al-manābiru	مَنَابِرُ manābiru
Accusative	مَنَابِرَ manābira	الْمَنَابِرَ al-manābira	مَنَابِرَ manābira
Genitive	مَنَابِرَ manābira	الْمَنَابِرِ al-manābiri	مَنَابِرِ manābiri

Descendants

• Maltese: minbar, manbar
• → Azerbaijani: minbər
• → English: minbar
• → Kazakh: мінбер (mınber)
• → Maranao: mimbar
• → Middle Armenian: մամբար (mambar)
• → Gujarati: મિંબર (mimbar)
• → Persian: منبر
• → Swahili: mimbari
• → Turkish: minber

References

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• Wellhausen, Julius (1897) Reste arabischen Heidentumes‎^[5] (in German), Berlin: Georg Reimer, page 232
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “نبر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1102