مقبره

See also: مقبرة

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَقْبَرَة (maqbara).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [maq.ba.ˈɾa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäq.bä.ɾǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäq.bä.ɾǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mäq.bä.ɾǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mäq.bä.ɾǽ]

• (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))

1. graveyard, cemetery

   Synonyms: قبرستان (qabrestân), گورستان (gurestân)

   • 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."

     (Classical Persian romanization)

2. 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