The story
- Arabic · borrowed fromسِرْدَاب“basement”
- English todayserdab
From Arabic سِرْدَاب (sirdāb, “basement”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
serdab
Today it means: A sealed chamber in an Ancient Egyptian tomb that held the ka statue of a deceased person, having a small slit or hole to allow the soul of the deceased to move about freely. Full definition →
Arabic سِرْدَاب