turbehn.
/ˈtʊəbeɪ(θ)/ A small mosque-like building erected over the tomb of a Muslim, esp. a person of sanctity or rank.
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1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 22 At the back of this Mosque there is a Turbe, where are the bodies of Sultan Achmet and his children.
1853 A. H. Layard Discov. Nineveh & Babylon ii. 24 In the midst..rose here and there a conical turbeh of beautiful shape, covered with exquisite tracery.
1906 W. M. Ramsay in Expositor Nov. 463 When it [the building] is little more than a mausoleum, it is called a turbe.
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