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مَقْبَر
cemetery /ˈmaq.bar/
nounB1#2826 most common
Also: graveyard, burial ground
Example sentences
هَذَا مَقْبَرٌ قَدِيمٌ.
This is an old cemetery.
زُرْنَا الْمَقْبَرَ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ.
We visited the cemetery on Friday.
يَقَعُ الْمَقْبَرُ خَلْفَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْكَبِيرِ.
The cemetery is located behind the big mosque.
دُفِنَ جَدِّي فِي مَقْبَرِ الْقَرْيَةِ الصَّغِيرَةِ.
My grandfather was buried in the small village's cemetery.
تَحَوَّلَ الْمَقْبَرُ الرُّومَانِيُّ الْقَدِيمُ إِلَى مَوْقِعٍ أَثَرِيٍّ يَجْذِبُ السُّيَّاحَ.
The old Roman cemetery has turned into an archaeological site that draws tourists.
تَنْتَشِرُ فِي أَطْرَافِ الْمَدِينَةِ مَقَابِرُ جَمَاعِيَّةٌ تَعُودُ إِلَى فَتْرَةِ الْحَرْبِ، وَهِيَ شَاهِدَةٌ صَامِتَةٌ عَلَى مَأْسَاةٍ إِنْسَانِيَّةٍ.
Mass cemeteries dating from the war period are scattered on the edges of the city, silent witnesses to a human tragedy.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مَقْبَرٌ | مَقَابِرُ |
| Genitive | مَقْبَرٍ | مَقَابِرَ |
| Accusative | مَقْبَرًا | مَقَابِرَ |
| Vocative | يَا مَقْبَرُ | يَا مَقَابِرُ |
Word family
قَبَرَto bury
قَبْرgrave, tombقُبُورgraves (plural of قَبْر)
مَقْبَرةcemetery, graveyard (parallel form)
Etymology
مَقْبَر comes from the Semitic root ق-ب-ر (q-b-r), tied to the verb قَبَرَ, meaning to bury. The pattern مَفْعَل attached to this root builds a noun of place, so the word literally names the place where burying happens. The same root gives Arabic قَبْر, the ordinary word for a single grave.
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