معبد

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Arabic

Etymology

Noun of place from the root ع ب د (ʕ-b-d).

Pronunciation

Noun

مَعْبَد • (maʕbad) m (dual مَعْبَدَانِ (maʕbadāni), plural مَعَابِد (maʕābid))

  1. place of worship, temple
    Hyponyms: مَسْجِد (masjid), جَامِع (jāmiʕ), مُصَلًّى (muṣallan), كَنِيسَة (kanīsa), كَنِيس (kanīs), هَيْكَل (haykal)

Declension

Declension of noun مَعْبَد (maʕbad)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal مَعْبَد
maʕbad 		الْمَعْبَد
al-maʕbad 		مَعْبَد
maʕbad
Nominative مَعْبَدٌ
maʕbadun 		الْمَعْبَدُ
al-maʕbadu 		مَعْبَدُ
maʕbadu
Accusative مَعْبَدًا
maʕbadan 		الْمَعْبَدَ
al-maʕbada 		مَعْبَدَ
maʕbada
Genitive مَعْبَدٍ
maʕbadin 		الْمَعْبَدِ
al-maʕbadi 		مَعْبَدِ
maʕbadi
Dual Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal مَعْبَدَيْن
maʕbadayn 		الْمَعْبَدَيْن
al-maʕbadayn 		مَعْبَدَيْ
maʕbaday
Nominative مَعْبَدَانِ
maʕbadāni 		الْمَعْبَدَانِ
al-maʕbadāni 		مَعْبَدَا
maʕbadā
Accusative مَعْبَدَيْنِ
maʕbadayni 		الْمَعْبَدَيْنِ
al-maʕbadayni 		مَعْبَدَيْ
maʕbaday
Genitive مَعْبَدَيْنِ
maʕbadayni 		الْمَعْبَدَيْنِ
al-maʕbadayni 		مَعْبَدَيْ
maʕbaday
Plural basic broken plural diptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal مَعَابِد
maʕābid 		الْمَعَابِد
al-maʕābid 		مَعَابِد
maʕābid
Nominative مَعَابِدُ
maʕābidu 		الْمَعَابِدُ
al-maʕābidu 		مَعَابِدُ
maʕābidu
Accusative مَعَابِدَ
maʕābida 		الْمَعَابِدَ
al-maʕābida 		مَعَابِدَ
maʕābida
Genitive مَعَابِدَ
maʕābida 		الْمَعَابِدِ
al-maʕābidi 		مَعَابِدِ
maʕābidi

Persian

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Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَعْبَد (maʕbad).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? ma'baḏ
Dari reading? ma'bad
Iranian reading? ma'bad
Tajik reading? maʾbad

Noun

Dari معبد
Iranian Persian
Tajik маъбад

مَعبَد • (ma'bad) (plural مَعابِد (ma'âbed) or مَعبَدها (ma'bad-hâ))

  1. temple

Urdu

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Pronunciation

Noun

Borrowed from Classical Persian مَعْبَد (ma'bad), from Arabic مَعْبَد (maʕbad).

Noun

مَعْبَد • (ma'bad) m (formal plural مَعَابِد (ma'ābid), Hindi spelling माबद)

  1. place of worship, temple
    Synonym: عِبادَت گاہ ('ibādat gāh)
    • 1990, اَشْفاق اَحْمَد [aśfāq ahmad], قِلْعَہ کَہَانی [qil'a kahānī], Lahore, →OCLC, page 26:
      بھگوان ہوتا تو اس معبد کے اندر ہوتا، دہلیز پر نہ بیٹھا کرتا۔
      bhagvān hotā to is ma'bad ke andar hotā, dahlīz par na baiṭhā kartā.
      If there was a god, he would have been inside this temple, not lingering at the entrance.
  2. (by extension) a synagogue

Declension

Declension of معبد
singular plural
direct مَعْبَد (ma'bad) مَعْبَد (ma'bad)
oblique مَعْبَد (ma'bad) مَعْبَدوں (ma'badō̃)
vocative مَعْبَد (ma'bad) مَعْبَدو (ma'badō)

Further reading

  • “معبد”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “معبد”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “معبد”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “معبد”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “معبد”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “معبد”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
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