تابوت

tābūt (orig. توبوت tawabūt, or تابوة tābuwat, rt. توب ), s.m.f. A bier; coffin; an oblong case placed over a grave; a wooden box or chest; the ark of the covenant (presented by God to Adam, and which, according to Mohammadans, contained the portraits of all the prophets); a representation or model of the mausoleum of Husain (carried in procession in the Moharram); a tax levied on Mohammadans (under the Maraṭṭhagovernment) for permission to carry the tābūtin the Moharram:—tābūt-gar, s.m. A coffin-maker, undertaker.