قبو

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Arabic

Root
ق ب و (q b w)
2 terms

Pronunciation

Noun

قَبْو (qabwf (plural أَقْبَاء (ʔaqbāʔ))

  1. verbal noun of قَبَا (qabā) (form I)
  2. vault, cove, basement, cellar
  3. (military, archaic) covering, shed, shelter, testudo; also a kind of siege engine serving this purpose

Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “قبو”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 395
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “قبو”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 670
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “قبو”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1000
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “قبو”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 869

Hijazi Arabic

Root
ق ب و
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic قَبْو (qabw).

Pronunciation

Noun

قبو (gabum (plural أَقْبِيَة (ʔagbiya) or أَقْباء (ʔagbāʔ))

  1. basement
    Synonym: بدروم (badrōm, budrōm)