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mastabah
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mastabah has 1 sense
- mastabah(n = noun.artifact) mastaba - an ancient Egyptian mud-brick tomb with a rectangular base and sloping sides and flat roof; "the Egyptian pyramids developed from the mastaba" is a kind of grave, tomb
CIDE DICTIONARY
mastabah, n. [Ar. maçtabah a large stone bench.].
- In Mohammedan countries, a fixed seat, common in dwellings and in public places. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- A type of tomb, of the time of the Memphite dynasties, comprising an oblong structure with sloping sides (sometimes containing a decorated chamber, sometimes of solid masonry), and connected with a mummy chamber in the rock beneath. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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