قبو

• IPA^(key): /qabw/

قَبْو • (qabw) f (plural أَقْبَاء (ʔaqbāʔ))

1. verbal noun of قَبَا (qabā) (form I)
2. vault, cove, basement, cellar
3. (military, archaic) covering, shed, shelter, testudo; also a kind of siege engine serving this purpose

• Freytag, Georg (1835) “قبو”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 395
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “قبو”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 670
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “قبو”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1000
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “قبو”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 869

From Arabic قَبْو (qabw).

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.bu/

قبو • (gabu) m (plural أَقْبِيَة (ʔagbiya) or أَقْباء (ʔagbāʔ))

1. basement

   Synonym: بدروم (badrōm, budrōm)