مصطبه

See also: مصطبة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَصْطَبَة (maṣṭaba, “bench, estrade, mastaba”), from Aramaic מצטבתא (maṣṭaḇṯā), a derivation from Aramaic מצב (meṣb, “stele; a stone slab”).

Noun

مصطبه • (mastaba or mıstaba) (definite accusative مصطبه‌یی (mastabayı), plural مصطبه‌لر (mastabalar))

1. mastaba, a wide, stone bench built into the external wall of a house, shop etc.

Descendants

• Turkish: mastaba
• → Greek: μασταμπάς (mastampás)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mastaba”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3073
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mastaba”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 697
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مصطبه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1179
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sedile”, 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 1532
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مصطبه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4700
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مصطبه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1878