مذبحة

Arabic
Root
ذ ب ح‎ (ḏ-b-ḥ)

Etymology

Noun of place from the verb ذَبَحَ‎ (ḏabaḥa, “to slaughter”), from the root ذ ب ح‎ (ḏ-b-ḥ).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mað.ba.ħa/

Noun

مَذْبَحَة • (maḏbaḥa) f (plural مَذَابِح‎ (maḏābiḥ) or مَذْبَحَات‎ (maḏbaḥāt))

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

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Descendants
  • → Ottoman Turkish: مذبحه‎‎

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