مقبره
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See also: مقبرة
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَقْبَرَة (maqbara).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [maq.ba.ˈɾa]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [mæʁ.bæ.ɹé]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [mäq.bä.ɾǽ]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | maqbara |
| Dari reading? | maqbara |
| Iranian reading? | mağbare |
| Tajik reading? | maqbara |
Noun
مقبره • (maqbare) (plural مقابر (maqâber) or مقبرهها (maqbare-hâ))
- graveyard, cemetery
- c. 1599, Bahāʾ al‐Dīn ʿĀmilī, کشکول[1]:
- عبدالله بن مبارک مردی را دید که بین زبالهدانی و مقبرهای ایستاده است. گفت: ای فلان، تو بین دو گنجینه از گنجینههای دنیائی ایستادهای، گنج اموال و گنج مردان.
- abdullāh bin mubārak mardē rā dīd ki bayn-i zubāla-dānē u maqbara'ē īstāda ast. guft: ay fulān, tu bayn-i du ganjīna az ganjīna-hā-yi dunyā'i īstāda'ī, ganj-i amwāl u ganj-i mardān.
- Abdullāh ibn Mubārak saw a man who was standing between a rubbish dump and a cemetery. He said: "Oh so-and-so, you are standing between two of the treasure-houses of the present world: the treasury of wealth, and the treasury of men."
- mausoleum, tomb
Further reading
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “مقبره”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “مقبره”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press