Dome of the Rock

English

The Dome of the Rock.

Etymology

Calque of Arabic قبة الصخرة (qubbat aṣ-ṣaḵra), from صخرة (ṣaḵra, “rock”) + قبة (qubba, “dome”).

Proper noun

the Dome of the Rock

1. A shrine, located on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, which contains the Foundation Stone.

Translations

shrine in Jerusalem

• Arabic: قُبَّةُ الصَّخْرَةِ f (qubbatu ṣ-ṣaḵrati)
• Bengali: সাখরার গম্বুজ (śakhrar gômbuz), কুব্বাত আস-সাখরা (qubbat as-sakhra)
• Catalan: Cúpula de la Roca
• Dutch: Rotskoepel
• French: dôme du Rocher, coupole du Rocher
• German: Felsendom (de)
• Hungarian: Sziklamecset (hu)
• Italian: Cupola della Roccia
• Norwegian: Klippedomen
• Ottoman Turkish: قبه صخره (Kubbe-i Sahre)
• Persian: قبه صخره (qobbe-ye saxre), قبة‌الصخره (qobbat-os-saxre)
• Polish: Kopuła na Skale
• Portuguese: Domo da Rocha, Cúpula da Rocha
• Romanian: Cupola Stâncii
• Russian: Купол Скалы (Kupol Skaly)
• Spanish: Domo de la Roca, Cúpula de la Roca
• Swedish: Klippdomen
• Turkish: Kubbetü's-Sahre (tr), Kubbe-i Sahre
• Uyghur: قۇببەتۇسسەخرە (qubbetussexre)

Further reading

• Dome of the Rock on Wikipedia.Wikipedia