Also turbé. [Turkish, a. Arab. turbah tomb, sepulcher.] A small mosque-like building erected over the tomb of a Moslem, esp. a person of sanctity or rank.
1687. A. Lovell, trans. Thevenot’s Trav., I. 22. At the back of this Mosque there is a Turbe, where are the bodies of Sultan Achmet and his children.
1853. Layard, 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.
