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MASTABAH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mastabah mean?
• MASTABAH (noun)
The noun MASTABAH has 1 sense:
1. an ancient Egyptian mud-brick tomb with a rectangular base and sloping sides and flat roof
Familiarity information: MASTABAH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An ancient Egyptian mud-brick tomb with a rectangular base and sloping sides and flat roof
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
mastaba; mastabah
Context example:
the Egyptian pyramids developed from the mastaba
Hypernyms ("mastabah" is a kind of...):
grave; tomb (a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone))
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