mihrab
mihrab noun: a niche in a mosque that indicates the qibla (direction of Mecca), and into which the imam prays.
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Noun
mihrab (plural mihrabs)
- A niche in a mosque that indicates the qibla (direction of Mecca), and into which the imam prays.
- Certainly there are nagging undertones of regret to the greatest of the Islamic monuments of Spain, the Great Mosque of Córdoba, for now that its mihrab has been demoted to be a mere curiosity, […].1964, Jan Morris, Spain, Faber and Faber, published 2008, →ISBN
- A design in a Muslim prayer mat with the same function.
mihrab meaning in Hindi, Urdu and Gujarati
mihrab in Hindi
- mihrab
- मेहराब mehrāb
mihrab in Urdu
- mihrab
- محراب mehrāb
mihrab in Gujarati
- mihrab
- મહેરાબ maherāb
Forms of mihrab
| plural | mihrabs |
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Origin of mihrab
Borrowed from Arabic مِحْرَاب (miḥrāb).
Questions about mihrab
- What does mihrab mean?
- Mihrab means a niche in a mosque that indicates the qibla (direction of Mecca), and into which the imam prays.
- What is mihrab in Hindi?
- Mihrab in Hindi is मेहराब (mehrāb). See Mihrab meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is mihrab?
- Mihrab is a noun.
- What is the plural of mihrab?
- The plural of mihrab is mihrabs.
Words near mihrab in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mihrab (page history and authors); मेहराब (Hindi) (page history and authors); محراب (Urdu) (page history and authors); મહેરાબ (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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