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قَبْر
grave /ˈqabr/
nounB1#2022 most common
Also: tomb, burial place, sepulchre
Example sentences
هٰذَا قَبْرٌ قَديمٌ.
This is an old grave.
زُرْنا قَبْرَ جَدِّي أَمْسِ.
We visited my grandfather's grave yesterday.
وَضَعَ النّاسُ الوَرْدَ عَلى القَبْرِ.
The people placed flowers on the grave.
يُقالُ إِنَّ القَبْرَ أَوَّلُ مَنازِلِ الآخِرَةِ.
It is said that the grave is the first of the abodes of the hereafter.
وَقَفَ صامِتاً أَمامَ قَبْرِ أَبيهِ لا يَقْوى عَلى النُّطْقِ.
He stood silent before his father's grave, unable to speak.
جاءَ في الحَديثِ أَنَّ القَبْرَ رَوْضَةٌ مِن رِياضِ الجَنَّةِ أَو حُفْرَةٌ مِن حُفَرِ النّارِ.
The tradition holds that the grave is either a garden from the gardens of paradise or a pit from the pits of hell.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | قَبْرٌ | قُبُورٌ |
| Genitive | قَبْرٍ | قُبُورٍ |
| Accusative | قَبْراً | قُبُوراً |
| Vocative | يا قَبْرُ | يا قُبُورُ |
Word family
قَبَرَto bury
مَقْبَرةcemetery, graveyard
قُبُورgraves (plural)
مَقْبورburied, entombed
مَقابِرcemeteries (plural)
Etymology
The word derives from the Semitic triliteral root q-b-r, which carries the sense of burying. The same root gives the verb qabara, to bury, and maqbara, a cemetery. The root is shared across the Semitic languages.
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