Mastaba is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 108 anagrams from letters in mastaba (aaabmst).
First recorded in 1595-1605, mastaba is from the Arabic word maṣṭabah
This passage, which is not high enough to allow one to walk upright, does not run quite parallel to the axis of the mastaba.
We have thus explored, with Mariette, the outside of the mastaba.
At El Kab they have been already mentioned as occurring in mastaba wells.
In Figs. 116-119 we give the plan and three sections of a mastaba at Gizeh which has four serdabs.
It may seem that in considering the mastaba before the pyramid we have reversed the natural order.
The mastaba deserved therefore to be very carefully studied.
The interior of a mastaba is composed of three parts—the chamber, the serdab, and the well.
There is an example of this in a mastaba at Gizeh (Fig. 120).
From these he concludes that the principles of the mastaba and the pyramid were sometimes combined under the ancient empire.
A different arrangement had therefore to be devised from that adopted in the case of the mastaba.
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