# mastaba
## English
### Alternative forms

* mastabah

### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَصْطَبَة (maṣṭaba).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmæstəbə/, sometimes /mæˈstaːbə/

### Noun

mastaba (plural mastabas)
* A wide stone bench built into the wall of a house, shop etc. in the Middle East.
** 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover, published 1963, page 68:A wooden shutter which closes down at night-time, and by day two palm-stick stools intensely dirty and full of fleas, occupying the place of the Mastabah or earthern bench, which accomodated[sic] purchasers, complete the furniture of my preceptor's establishment.
* (architecture) A rectangular structure with a flat top and slightly sloping sides, built during Ancient Egyptian times above tombs that were situated on flat land. Mastabas were made of wood, mud bricks, stone, or a combination of these materials. Some are solid structures, while others can contain one or more rooms, sometimes decorated with paintings or inscriptions.
    The pyramids at Giza are flanked by large cemeteries containing hundreds of mastabas.

#### Translations

Arabic: مَصْطَبَة f (maṣṭaba)
Catalan: mastaba (ca) f
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Dutch: mastaba (nl) f
Egyptian: (jz m)
Finnish: mastaba (fi)
French: mastaba (fr) f
Galician: mastaba (gl) f
German: Mastaba (de) f
Greek: μασταμπάς (el) m (mastampás)
Italian: mastaba (it) f
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Polish: mastaba (pl) f
Portuguese: mastaba f
Russian: маста́ба (ru) f (mastába)
Spanish: mastaba (es) f
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## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِصْطَبَة (miṣṭaba, “bench”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɑs.taː.baː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: mas‧ta‧ba

### Noun

mastaba f (plural mastaba's)
* a mastaba (ancient Egyptian tomb structure)

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

mastaba m (plural mastabas)
* mastaba

### Further reading

* “mastaba”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology

From Arabic مِصْطَبَة (miṣṭaba, “bench”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈma.sta.ba/
* Rhymes: -astaba
* Hyphenation: mà‧sta‧ba

### Noun

mastaba f (plural mastabe)
* mastaba

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِصْطَبَة (miṣṭaba).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /masˈta.ba/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aba
* Syllabification: mas‧ta‧ba

### Noun

mastaba f
* (archaeology) mastaba (rectangular structure with a flat top and slightly sloping sides, built during Ancient Egyptian times above tombs that were situated on flat land)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* mastaba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* mastaba in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* mastaba in PWN's encyclopedia

## Spanish
### Noun

mastaba f (plural mastabas)
* mastaba

### Further reading

* “mastaba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10