Definitions for mastabas

mastabas mas·ta·ba

Spelling: [mas-tuh-buh]
IPA: /ˈmæs tə bə/

Mastabas is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 134 anagrams from letters in mastabas (aaabmsst).

Definitions for mastabas

noun

  1. an ancient Egyptian tomb made of mud brick, rectangular in plan with sloping sides and a flat roof.
  2. (in Islamic countries) a fixed bench, especially one of stone.

Origin of mastabas

First recorded in 1595-1605, mastaba is from the Arabic word maṣṭabah

Examples for mastabas

A different arrangement had therefore to be devised from that adopted in the case of the mastaba.

From these he concludes that the principles of the mastaba and the pyramid were sometimes combined under the ancient empire.

It may seem that in considering the mastaba before the pyramid we have reversed the natural order.

We have thus explored, with Mariette, the outside of the mastaba.

In Figs. 116-119 we give the plan and three sections of a mastaba at Gizeh which has four serdabs.

The interior of a mastaba is composed of three parts—the chamber, the serdab, and the well.

The mastaba deserved therefore to be very carefully studied.

This passage, which is not high enough to allow one to walk upright, does not run quite parallel to the axis of the mastaba.

At El Kab they have been already mentioned as occurring in mastaba wells.

There is an example of this in a mastaba at Gizeh (Fig. 120).

Word Value for mastabas
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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