Arabic

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Root
ذ ب ح (ḏ b ḥ)
4 terms

Etymology

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Noun of place from the verb ذَبَحَ (ḏabaḥa, to slaughter).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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مَذْبَحَة (maḏbaḥaf (plural مَذَابِح (maḏābiḥ) or مَذْبَحَات (maḏbaḥāt))

  1. slaughterhouse, abattoir
  2. (figuartively) massacre, slaughter, carnage, butchery

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Ottoman Turkish: مذبحه

References

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  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “مذبحة”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN