Etymograph

English

mastaba

Mastaba comes from Aramaic מצב ‘stele’, and goes back to נצב ‘to plant’.

  1. Aramaicc. 1000 BCE–700 CEנצבnəṣab‘to plant’
  2. Aramaic, derivedc. 1000 BCE–700 CEמצבmeṣb‘stele’
  3. Aramaic, derivedc. 1000 BCE–700 CEמצטבתאmaṣṭaḇṯā
  4. Arabicc. 500–presentمَصْطَبَة
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1855mastaba

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Aramaicc. 1000 BCE–700 CEנצבnəṣab‘to plant’
  2. Aramaic, derivedc. 1000 BCE–700 CEמצבmeṣb‘stele’
  3. Aramaic, derivedc. 1000 BCE–700 CEמצטבתאmaṣṭaḇṯā
  4. Arabicc. 500–presentمَصْطَبَة
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1855mastaba

Earliest quotation: 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah: “A wooden shutter which closes down at night-time, and…”

Every English word from Aramaic נצב

Today it means

noun A wide stone bench built into the wall of a house, shop etc. in the Middle East.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Aramaic נצב / mastaba

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