Definitions for mimbar

mimbar mim·bar

Spelling: [mim-bahr]
IPA: /ˈmɪm bɑr/

Mimbar is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 87 anagrams from letters in mimbar (abimmr).

Definitions for mimbar

noun

  1. a pulpit in a mosque.

Origin of mimbar

First recorded in 1810-20, mimbar is from the Arabic word minbar

Examples for mimbar

The preacher standing on the second step of the mimbar, or pulpit, with a large club or staff in his hand, delivers his sermon.

The walls are of painted plaster-work; the mimbar or pulpit is of carved wood, each panel bearing a different design.

The Moorish mimbar or pulpit of the mosque of Cordova was very wonderful.

The mimbar, or pulpit is so placed that the speaker can face Mecca.

We learn from Ibn-Khaldoun and many other writers, that the throne of the Mussulman sultans was the mimbar, takcht, or cursi.

The "mimbar," or pulpit, was fashioned out of a simple palm-tree trunk on which the Prophet mounted when he preached his sermons.

Word Value for mimbar
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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