Sebil
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Sebil is a noun meaning A fountain, a small structure in a Muslim area where water is freely dispensed to members of the public.
Meaning
A fountain, a small structure in a Muslim area where water is freely dispensed to members of the public.
More Meanings
- (possibly obsolete) Alternative form of cebil.
Example Sentences
Addition of architectonic elements for public use to these walls, sebil and fountains, also gives them particular volume[…]
Her tomb is at the far end of the complex, completed in 1796, which also includes a sebil, soup kitchen, school, large cemetery, […]
[...] and as the bark of the curupau tree, which from its name and general description may be a niopo tree, serves, according to Cardus, to tan hides in eastern Bolivia, so in like manner the bark of sebil is used to tan hides .
Don Carlos is supposed to prepare the most and best kid skins in South America, thanks to the bark of the sebil tree, vast forests of which grow on these ranges and in Tucuman. Don Carlos is a capital fellow, speaks French, English, German, .
Word Forms
- sebils
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sabil, shadirvan, talab, jube, surau, waqf.
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