different between ziggurat vs mastaba

English

Alternative forms

• zigurat, zikkurat, zikurat

Etymology

From Akkadian ???????????? (ziqqurratu), from ???? ???? (zaq?ru, literally “to build high”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?z?????æt/, /?z?????æt/

Noun

ziggurat (plural ziggurats)

1. a temple tower of the ancient Mesopotamian valley, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories
2. a building with similar style or shape

Derived terms

Translations

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [zi??u??t]
• Hyphenation: zig?gu?rat

Noun

ziggurat (definite accusative ziggurat?, plural zigguratlar)

1. ziggurat

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• mastabah

Etymology

From Arabic ?????????? (mi??aba, “bench”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mæst?b?/, sometimes /mæ?sta?b?/

Noun

mastaba (plural mastabas)

1. 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 1963, p. 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.

2. (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

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ?????????? (mi??aba, “bench”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?s.ta?.ba?/
• Hyphenation: mas?ta?ba

Noun

mastaba f (plural mastaba's)

1. A mastaba (ancient Egyptian tomb structure).

Italian

Etymology

From Arabic ?????????? (mi??aba, “bench”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mas.ta.ba/
• Hyphenation: mà?sta?ba

Noun

mastaba f (plural mastabe)

1. mastaba