mastaba
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Arabic مِصْطَبَة (miṣṭaba, “bench”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mastaba (plural mastabas)
- A wide stone bench built into the wall of a house, shop etc. in the Middle East.
- 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover, published 1963, page 68:
- A wooden shutter which closes down at night-time, and by day two palm-stick stools intensely dirty and full of fleas, occupying the place of the Mastabah or earthern bench, which accomodated[sic] purchasers, complete the furniture of my preceptor's establishment.
- (architecture) A rectangular structure with a flat top and slightly sloping sides, built during Ancient Egyptian times above tombs that were situated on flat land. Mastabas were made of wood, mud bricks, stone, or a combination of these materials. Some are solid structures, while others can contain one or more rooms, sometimes decorated with paintings or inscriptions.
- The pyramids at Giza are flanked by large cemeteries containing hundreds of mastabas.
Translations[edit]
rectangular tomb structure with a flat top and slightly sloping sides
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Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Arabic مِصْطَبَة (miṣṭaba, “bench”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mastaba f (plural mastaba's)
- A mastaba (ancient Egyptian tomb structure).
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
mastaba m (plural mastabas)
Further reading[edit]
- “mastaba”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Arabic مِصْطَبَة (miṣṭaba, “bench”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mastaba f (plural mastabe)
Spanish[edit]
Noun[edit]
mastaba f (plural mastabas)
Further reading[edit]
- “mastaba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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