MASTABA

Meaning of MASTABA in English

n.1 Archaeol. an ancient Egyptian tomb with sloping sides and a flat roof.

2 a bench, usu. of stone, attached to a house in Islamic countries.

Etymology: Arab. mastabah

Oxford English vocab. Оксфордский английский словарь. 2012

MASTABA — noun Etymology: Arabic maṣṭaba stone bench Date: 1882 an Egyptian tomb of the time of the Memphite dynasties that is …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
MASTABA — (Arabic: "bench") Rectangular superstructure of ancient Egyptian tombs, built of mud brick or, later, stone, with sloping walls and a …
Английский словарь Британика
MASTABA — ˈmastəbə noun ( -s ) Etymology: Arabic maṣṭabah, miṣṭabah stone bench : an Egyptian tomb of the time of the …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
MASTABA — () Alt. of Mastabah
Английский словарь Webster
MASTABA — /mas"teuh beuh/ , n. 1. an ancient Egyptian tomb made of mud brick, rectangular in plan with sloping sides and …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
MASTABA — noun Etymology: Arabic maṣṭaba stone bench Date: 1882 : an Egyptian tomb of the time of the Memphite dynasties that …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
MASTABA — add. ·- ·alt. of mastabah.
Webster English vocab
MASTABA — [ 'mastəbə ] ■ noun 1》 Archaeology an ancient Egyptian tomb consisting of an underground burial chamber with rooms above …
Concise Oxford English vocab
MASTABA — [mas.ta.ba] n [Ar mastabah stone bench] (1882): an Egyptian tomb of the time of the Memphite dynasties that is oblong …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
MASTABA — n. 1 Archaeol. an ancient Egyptian tomb with sloping sides and a flat roof. 2 a bench, usu. of stone, …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
MASTABA — n. 1 Archaeol. an ancient Egyptian tomb with sloping sides and a flat roof. 2 a bench, usu. of stone, …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
MASTABA — n. (Arabic: "bench") Rectangular superstructure of ancient Egyptian tombs, built of mud brick or, later, stone, with sloping walls and …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
MASTABA — Мастаба
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
MASTABA — мастаба (гробница из сырцового кирпича в Древнем Египте)
Англо-Русский словарь по строительству и новым строительным технологиям
MASTABA — n. Pronunciation: ' mas-t ə -b ə Function: noun Etymology: Arabic ma ș ṭ aba stone bench Date: 1882 : …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
TOMB — I Home or house for the dead. The term is applied loosely to all kinds of graves, funerary monuments, and …
Английский словарь Британика
SERDAB — sə(r)ˈdäb noun ( -s ) Etymology: Arabic sirdāb cellar, underground vault, from Persian sardāb ice cellar, from sard cold + …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SERDAB — /seuhr dahb"/ , n. a chamber inside a mastaba containing a statue of the deceased. [ 1835-45; sirdab underground chamber …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
PYRAMID — in architecture, a monumental structure constructed of or faced with stone or brick and having a rectangular base and four …
Britannica English vocabulary
SAWHAJ — also spelled Sohag, or Suhag, town and capital of Sawhaj muhafazah (governorate) in the Nile River valley of Upper Egypt. …
Britannica English vocabulary
REISNER, GEORGE ANDREW — born , Nov. 5, 1867, Indianapolis, Ind., U.S. died June 6, 1942, Cairo U.S. archaeologist who directed many excavations in …
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IDFU — also called Edfu, or Behdet, Egyptian Djeba, Greek Apollinopolis, Coptic Atbo, town on the west bank of the Nile in …
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ABYDOS — ancient Anatolian town located just northeast of the modern Turkish town of anakkale on the east side of the Dardanelles …
Britannica English vocabulary
TOMB — n. Home or house for the dead. The term is applied loosely to all kinds of graves, funerary monuments, and …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
SAQQARAH — or Sakkara Site of ancient ruins, Lower Egypt. Part of the necropolis of the ancient city of Memphis , it …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE — Houses, palaces, temples, tombs, and other buildings of ancient Egypt. Most Egyptian towns were situated on the floodplain of the …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
VAULT — Synonyms and related words : Caelus, Fort Knox, Highland fling, air, anabasis, and jump, apse, arcade, arcature, arch, arched roof, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
TOPE — Synonyms and related words : antenna tower, arch, barbican, barrow, beehive tomb, belfry, bell tower, bib, bocage, bone house, booze, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
TOMB — Synonyms and related words : arch, barrow, beehive tomb, bone house, boundary stone, box, box grave, brass, burial, burial chamber, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
STUPA — Synonyms and related words : antenna tower, arch, barbican, barrow, beehive tomb, belfry, bell tower, bone house, boundary stone, box …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SHRINE — Synonyms and related words : arch, barrow, beehive tomb, bone house, boundary stone, box grave, brass, burial, burial chamber, burial …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SEPULCHER — Synonyms and related words : barrow, beehive tomb, bone house, box grave, burial, burial chamber, burial mound, catacombs, cenotaph, charnel …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary

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