مقبره

See also: مقبرة

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَقْبَرَة (maqbara).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /maq.ba.ˈɾa/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäq.bä.ɾǽ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mäq.bä.ɾǽ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mäq.bä.ɾǽ]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæʁ.bæ.ɹé]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mäq.bä.ɾǽ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	maqbara
Dari reading^?	maqbara
Iranian reading^?	maġbare
Tajik reading^?	maqbara

Noun

مقبره • (maqbare) (plural مقابر (maqâber), or مقبره‌ها)

graveyard, cemetery
Synonyms: قبرستان (qabrestân), گورستان (gurestân)
- c. 1599, Bahāʾ al‐Dīn ʿĀmilī, کشکول‎^[1]:
  عبدالله بن مبارک مردی را دید که بین زباله‌دانی و مقبره‌ای ایستاده است. گفت: ای فلان، تو بین دو گنجینه از گنجینه‌های دنیائی ایستاده‌ای، گنج اموال و گنج مردان.
  abdullāh bin mubārak mardē rā dīd ki bayn-i zubāla-dānē u maqbara'ē īstāda ast. guft: ay fulān, tu bayn-i du ganjīna az ganjīna-hā-yi dunyā'i īstāda'ī, ganj-i amwāl u ganj-i mardān.
  Abdullāh ibn Mubārak saw a man who was standing between a rubbish dump and a cemetery. He said: "Oh so-and-so, you are standing between two of the treasure-houses of the present world: the treasury of wealth, and the treasury of men."
  (Classical Persian romanization)
mausoleum, tomb

Further reading

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “مقبره”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “مقبره”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press