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قَبْو
cellar /ˈqabw/
nounB1#2002 most common
Also: basement, vault, crypt
Example sentences
البيت له قَبْو.
The house has a cellar.
نزلنا إلى القَبْو.
We went down to the cellar.
يحفظ جدي النبيذ في القَبْو.
My grandfather keeps the wine in the cellar.
كان القَبْو مظلماً وبارداً في الشتاء.
The cellar was dark and cold in winter.
اختبأت العائلة في القَبْو أثناء القصف.
The family hid in the cellar during the shelling.
حوّلوا القَبْو القديم تحت الكنيسة إلى متحف صغير يضم أقبية أثرية.
They turned the old vault beneath the church into a small museum containing archaeological cellars.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | قَبْوٌ | أَقْبِيَةٌ |
| Genitive | قَبْوٍ | أَقْبِيَةٍ |
| Accusative | قَبْواً | أَقْبِيَةً |
| Vocative | يا قَبْوُ | يا أَقْبِيَةُ |
Word family
أَقْبِيَةcellars, vaults (plural)
قُبَّةdome, cupola
قَبَاto vault, to arch
Etymology
The word derives from the Arabic root ق-ب-و, tied to the idea of arching or vaulting. A قَبْو is a covered, arched space, so the sense of an underground vault or cellar follows from its curved roof. The term spread through the Mediterranean for masonry vaults.
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