Wiktionary
n. 1 (context Islam English) a niche in a mosque, that indicates the qibla (direction of Mecca), and into which the imam prays 2 (context Islam English) a design in a Muslim prayer mat with the same function
WordNet
n. (Islam) a design in the shape of niche in a Muslim prayer rug; during worship the niche must be pointed toward Mecca
(Islam) a niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the direction of Mecca
Wikipedia
Mihrab ( , pl. ) is a semicircular niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the qibla; that is, the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca and hence the direction that Muslims should face when praying. The wall in which a mihrab appears is thus the "qibla wall."
Mihrabs should not be confused with the minbar, which is the raised platform from which an Imam (leader of prayer) addresses the congregation.
Usage examples of "mihrab".
But then I took notice of the shape of that mihrab niche in the masjid wall.
I truly believed, when I made spruzzo the first time, that I was somehow doing it inside her mihrab, even though the mihrab was still close and warm and wet against my mouth.
And then she dissolved into her distances again, and I resumed doing my best to send her ever farther and higher, and I repeatedly joined her in that soaring exultation, and I made my subsequent several spruzzi into the alien mihrab, not really caring whose it was, but retaining enough consciousness to hope vaguely that the younger and ugly Princess Sunlight was enjoying her employment of me as much as I was enjoying it.
Shams says it gives to her mihrab lips that fine first feeling of being spread apart.
You will be grateful, Marco, someday when you desire to give pleasure to a woman of large or slack mihrab, you will be grateful that you learned how.
At the arch tip of her mihrab, where the tiny tuning key should have been, there was no slightest protrusion.
She lies with her legs drawn up and apart, exposing a mihrab that is tight and numb with tension.
It is what makes the belly big, and it is alive, and she has felt it move in there, and she has felt the first pangs of its wanting to get out of there, and where shall it come out except through that mihrab canal between her legs?
I realized also that the water had not come from my bladder, by way of the little female peeing hole, but out of the mihrab canal.
I felt my mihrab begin to open and stretch, like a mouth yawning, and the lips of it continued to gape wider, until they must have made the orifice a full circle, like a mouth screaming.
If their pagan whim tolerated Christian basilicas in the precincts of their ancient temples, it permitted mosque, harem, and mihrab equally.
She had seen the Moors of Spain upon the highways of the Limousin and understood that Moslem traders will not come where they have no muezzin, no harem where they can wash the desert sand from their feet, no mihrab where they can set their faces toward Mecca.
Instead they had built a mimbar and a mihrab for prayer, located at a thirty-degree angle to the Christian altar, slanted across the general floor plan, so they would both face the distant holy city of Mecca.
Aboul Hassan, where Monsieur Knight will see the most beautiful mihrab in all the world.
Suleiman or Sultan Ahmet with all their mihrabs and minbers, their stalactite niches and faienced walls.