different between shrine vs marabout

English

Etymology

From Middle English shryne, from Old English scr?n (“reliquary, ark of the covenant”), from Latin scr?nium (“case or chest for books or papers”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Compare Old Norse skrín, Old High German skr?ni (German Schrein).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a??n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Noun

shrine (plural shrines)

1. A holy or sacred place dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, or similar figure of awe and respect, at which said figure is venerated or worshipped.
2. A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint.
3. (figuratively) A place or object hallowed from its history or associations.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

shrine (third-person singular simple present shrines, present participle shrining, simple past and past participle shrined)

1. To enshrine; to place reverently, as if in a shrine.

Translations

Anagrams

• Hiners, Hirens, Shiner, renshi, rhines, shiner

English

Etymology

From French marabout, from Portuguese maraboto, marabuto, from Moroccan Arabic ????????? (mrabe?) (standard Arabic ????????? (mur?bi?, “soldier stationed in fortified outpost”)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ma??bu?t/

Noun

marabout (plural marabouts)

1. A Muslim holy man or mystic, especially in parts of North Africa. [from 17th c.]
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 38:

     one of their principal targets was the marabouts – or holy men and leaders of mystic orders – whom they accused both of corrupting the faith by their espousal of mysticism and of being the ‘domestic animals of colonialism’.

2. The tomb or shrine of such a person. [from 19th c.]

Derived terms

• maraboutic
• maraboutism

Translations

Anagrams

• tamboura

French

Alternative forms

• marabou

Etymology

Arabic ????????? (mur?bi?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.?a.bu/

Noun

marabout m (plural marabouts)

1. (religion) marabout
2. (zoology) marabou, stork of the Leptoptilos genus

Derived terms

• marabouter
• maraboutage
• maraboutisme
• maraboutiste

Descendants

• ? Catalan: marabú
• ? English: marabout
• ? Spanish: marabú

Further reading

• “marabout” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).