different between tomb vs marabout

English

Etymology

From Middle English tombe, toumbe, borrowed from Old French tombe, from Latin tumba from Ancient Greek ?????? (túmbos, “a sepulchral mound, tomb, grave”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *tewh?- (“to swell”).

The verb is from Middle English tomben.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tu?m/?
• (US) IPA^(key): /tum/
• Rhymes: -u?m

Noun

tomb (plural tombs)

1. A small building (or "vault") for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.
2. A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave.
3. One who keeps secrets.
   • 1912 Constance Garnett (tr.), Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov (1880) Book III, chapter 4

     I never told anyone about it. You're the first, except Ivan, of course—Ivan knows everything. He knew about it long before you. But Ivan's a tomb.

Derived terms

• disentomb
• entomb
• tombstone

Descendants

• ? Irish: tuama
• ? Maori: toma

Translations

Verb

tomb (third-person singular simple present tombs, present participle tombing, simple past and past participle tombed)

1. (transitive) To bury.

Catalan

Etymology

From tombar.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?tomp/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?tom/
• Homophone: tom (Central)

Noun

tomb m (plural tombs)

1. turn (change of direction)
2. turn, twist (movement around an axis)
3. turn (change of temperament or circumstance)
4. walk, stroll

Derived terms

• venir a tomb

Further reading

• “tomb” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Middle English

Noun

tomb (plural tombes)

1. Alternative form of tombe (“tomb”)

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).