Definitions for serdabs

serdabs ser·dab

Spelling: [ser-dahb]
IPA: /sərˈdɑb/

Serdabs is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 213 anagrams from letters in serdabs (abderss).

Definitions for serdabs

noun

  1. a chamber inside a mastaba containing a statue of the deceased.

Origin of serdabs

1835-45; Arabic sirdāb underground chamber Persian sardāb cellar for ice, equivalent to sard cold + āb water

Examples for serdabs

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

Once the statue was made a stone-house (the serdab) was provided for it above ground.

serdab, ser′dab, n. a secret chamber within the masonry of an ancient Egyptian tomb in which images of the deceased were stored.

So that the function of the serdab was to afford a safe and final asylum to the statues.

As the dolmen is a crude copy of the serdab it can be claimed as one of the ultimate results of the practice of mummification.

Word Value for serdabs
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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