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Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَقْبَرَة (maqbara).
Pronunciation
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maqbara
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| Dari reading?
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maqbara
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mağbare
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maqbara
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Noun
مقبره • (maqbare) (plural مقابر (maqâber) or مقبرهها (maqbare-hâ))
- graveyard, cemetery
- Synonyms: قبرستان (qabrestân), گورستان (gurestân)
c. 1599, Bahāʾ al‐Dīn ʿĀmilī, کشکول: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
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