قبه

See also: قبة

Ottoman Turkish

قبه

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قُبَّة (qubba, “dome, cupola”), from Aramaic קוּבְּתָא (qubbəṯā, “vault; dome, cupola”).

Noun

قبه • (kubbe) (plural قبب (kubeb) or قباب (kıbab))

1. dome, cupola, any structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere

   Synonyms: طارم (tarem), كنبد (kümbed)

2. (by extension) any domed room or building typical of Middle Eastern countries

Derived terms

• قبه آلتی (kubbe altı, “the apartments where councils of State were held”)
• قبه صخره (Kubbe-i Sahre, “the Dome of the Rock”)
• قبه وزیری (kubbe veziri, “vezir appointed as a member of a council of State”)
• قبه چویرمك (kubbe çevirmek, “to build a dome”)
• قبه گبی (kubbe gibi, “dome-shaped”)
• قبه‌سز (kubbesiz, “domeless”)
• قبه‌لندرمك (kubbelendirmek, “to make or let be furnished with a dome”)
• قبه‌لنمك (kubbelenmek, “to become dome-shaped”)
• قبه‌لو (kubbeli, “furnished with a dome”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kubbe

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kubbe”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2817
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “kubbe”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 626
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قبه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 944
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fornix”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 605
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قبه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3624
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kubbe”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قبه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1433

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قُبَّة (qubba).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [quβ.ˈba]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qʊb.bǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qʊb.bǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [qʊb.bǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [qub.bǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [qob.bé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [qub.bǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	quḇḇa
Dari reading?	qubba
Iranian reading?	ğobbe
Tajik reading?	qubba

Noun

Dari	قبه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	қубба

قبه • (qobbe)

1. dome, cupola, vault

Derived terms

• قبه صخره (qobbe-ye saxre, “the Dome of the Rock”)

Related terms

• قبة‌الصخره (qobbat-os-saxre, “the Dome of the Rock”)