معبد

Arabic

Etymology

Noun of place from the root ع ب د (ʕ-b-d).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maʕ.bad/

Noun

مَعْبَد • (maʕbad) m (dual مَعْبَدَانِ (maʕbadāni), plural مَعَابِد (maʕābid))

1. place of worship, temple

   Hyponyms: مَسْجِد (masjid), جَامِع (jāmiʕ), مُصَلًّى (muṣallan), كَنِيسَة (kanīsa), كَنِيس (kanīs), هَيْكَل (haykal)

Declension

Declension of noun مَعْبَد (maʕbad)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَعْبَد maʕbad	الْمَعْبَد al-maʕbad	مَعْبَد maʕbad
Nominative	مَعْبَدٌ maʕbadun	الْمَعْبَدُ al-maʕbadu	مَعْبَدُ maʕbadu
Accusative	مَعْبَدًا maʕbadan	الْمَعْبَدَ al-maʕbada	مَعْبَدَ maʕbada
Genitive	مَعْبَدٍ maʕbadin	الْمَعْبَدِ al-maʕbadi	مَعْبَدِ maʕbadi
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَعْبَدَيْن maʕbadayn	الْمَعْبَدَيْن al-maʕbadayn	مَعْبَدَيْ maʕbaday
Nominative	مَعْبَدَانِ maʕbadāni	الْمَعْبَدَانِ al-maʕbadāni	مَعْبَدَا maʕbadā
Accusative	مَعْبَدَيْنِ maʕbadayni	الْمَعْبَدَيْنِ al-maʕbadayni	مَعْبَدَيْ maʕbaday
Genitive	مَعْبَدَيْنِ maʕbadayni	الْمَعْبَدَيْنِ al-maʕbadayni	مَعْبَدَيْ maʕbaday
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَعَابِد maʕābid	الْمَعَابِد al-maʕābid	مَعَابِد maʕābid
Nominative	مَعَابِدُ maʕābidu	الْمَعَابِدُ al-maʕābidu	مَعَابِدُ maʕābidu
Accusative	مَعَابِدَ maʕābida	الْمَعَابِدَ al-maʕābida	مَعَابِدَ maʕābida
Genitive	مَعَابِدَ maʕābida	الْمَعَابِدِ al-maʕābidi	مَعَابِدِ maʕābidi

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic مَعْبَد (maʕbad).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [maʔ.bað]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäʔ.bäd̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäʔ.bäd̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mɑː.bäd̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mɔː.bäd̪̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæʔ.bæd̪̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mäʔ.bäd̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	ma'baḏ
Dari reading?	ma'bad
Iranian reading?	ma'bad
Tajik reading?	maʾbad

Noun

Dari	معبد
Iranian Persian
Tajik	маъбад

مَعبَد • (ma'bad) (plural مَعابِد (ma'âbed) or مَعبَدها (ma'bad-hâ))

1. temple

Urdu

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /məʕ.bəd̪/, /məʔ.bəd̪/, [mɑː.bəd̪]
• Rhymes: -əd̪
• Hyphenation: مَعْ‧بَد

Noun

Borrowed from Classical Persian مَعْبَد (ma'bad), from Arabic مَعْبَد (maʕbad).

Noun

مَعْبَد • (ma'bad) m (formal plural مَعَابِد (ma'ābid), Hindi spelling माबद)

1. place of worship, temple

   Synonym: عِبادَت گاہ ('ibādat gāh)

   • 1990, اَشْفاق اَحْمَد [aśfāq ahmad], قِلْعَہ کَہَانی [qil'a kahānī], Lahore, →OCLC, page 26:

     بھگوان ہوتا تو اس معبد کے اندر ہوتا، دہلیز پر نہ بیٹھا کرتا۔

     bhagvān hotā to is ma'bad ke andar hotā, dahlīz par na baiṭhā kartā.

     If there was a god, he would have been inside this temple, not lingering at the entrance.

2. (by extension) a synagogue

Declension

Declension of معبد
	singular	plural
direct	مَعْبَد (ma'bad)	مَعْبَد (ma'bad)
oblique	مَعْبَد (ma'bad)	مَعْبَدوں (ma'badō̃)
vocative	مَعْبَد (ma'bad)	مَعْبَدو (ma'badō)

Further reading

• “معبد”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “معبد”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “معبد”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John Thompson (1884) “معبد”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “معبد”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “معبد”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC