گنبد

Persian

Alternative forms

• گنبذ (gombaḏ, gombaz)
• гунбад (gunbad), гунбаз (gunbaz)

Etymology

From Middle Persian gwmbt' (gumbad, “dome, fire-temple”), from Classical Syriac ܩܘܒܬܐ (qubbəṯā). Compare Old Armenian գմբեթ (gmbetʿ) and Georgian გუმბათი (gumbat’i), Iranian borrowings.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ɡʊmˈbæð], [ɡʊmˈbæd]
• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): [ɡomˈbæd]

Noun

گنبد • (gombad) (plural گنبدها)

گنبد

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1. (architecture) dome, cupola, vault
2. domed building, especially mausoleum or palace

Synonyms

• قبه (qobbe), کوپله (kupale) (archaic)

Derived terms

• گنبده (gombade)
• گنبدی (gombadi)
• گنبدی‌شکل (gombadi-šekl)
• گنبددار (gombad-dâr)
• گنبدمانند (gombad-mânand)
• گنبد زدن (gombad zadan)
• گنبد کردن (gombad kardan)

Descendants

• Arabic: جُنْبَد (jumbad), جُنْبَذ (jumbaḏ), جُنْبُذ m (jumbuḏ)
• Azeri: günbəz / گنبذ
• Bashkir: көмбәҙ (kömbäð)
• Bengali: গম্বুজ (gambuja)
• Hindustani:
  • Hindi: गुम्बद (gumbad), गुम्बज़ (gumbaz)
  • Urdu: گنبد (gumbad), گنبذ (gumbaz)
• Kannada: ಗುಮ್ಮಟ (gummaṭa)
• Kazakh: күмбез (kümbez)
• Kyrgyz: күмбөз (kümböz)
• Ottoman Turkish: كمبد (kümbed)
  • Turkish: kümbet
• Turkmen: gümmez
• Uzbek: gumbaz

References

• «گنبد» in Dehkhoda Dictionary.
• گنبد in Francis Joseph Steingass (1892), A Comprehensive Persian-English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• "gumbad" in David Neil MacKenzie (1986), A Concise Pahlavi Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-713559-5

External links

• Gonbad on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Gonbad
• fa:گنبد on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:fa:گنبد