عمارت

Ottoman Turkish

عمارت

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عِمَارَة (ʕimāra, “building, structure”).

Noun

عمارت • (ʼimaret) (definite accusative عمارتی (ʼimareti), plural عمارتلر (ʼimaretler))

1. prosperity, welfare

   Synonyms: رفاه (refah), عمران (ʼümran)

2. building, edifice

   Synonyms: بنا (binâ), یاپی (yapı)

3. imaret (an Ottoman soup kitchen which gave out food that was free for poor or needy people)

Derived terms

• عمارت ایتمك (ʼimaret etmek, “to repair, restore”)
• عمارت چورباسی (ʼimaret çorbası, “free meal”, literally “imaret's soup”)
• عمارتجی (ʼimaretci, “director of a imaret”)

Descendants

• Turkish: imaret
• → Armenian: իմարէթ (imarētʻ)
• → Bulgarian: имарет (imaret)
• → English: imaret
• → Macedonian: имарет (imaret)

Further reading

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• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886), “عمارت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 368
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “imaret”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2159
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “imâret”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎ [Ottoman–Turkish Encyclopedic Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 517
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “عمارت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 859
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Xenodochium”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1803
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “عمارت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3325
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “imaret”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “عمارت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1320

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عِمَارَة (ʕimāra).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔi.maː.ˈrat/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪ.mɑː.ɾát̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪ.mɑː.ɾát̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɪ.mɑː.ɾát̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔi.mɔː.ɾát̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔe.mɒː.ɹǽt̪ʰ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔi.mɔ.ɾát̪]

• Rhymes: -at

Readings
Classical reading?	imārat
Dari reading?	imārat
Iranian reading?	emârat
Tajik reading?	imorat

Noun

Dari	عمارت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	иморат

عمارت • (imārat / emârat) (plural عمارت‌ها (imārat-hā / emârat-hâ), or عمارات, Tajik spelling иморат)

1. building

Descendants

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: इमारत (imārat)

  Urdu: عِمارَت ('imārat)

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਇਮਾਰਤ (imārat)

  Shahmukhi script: عِمارَت (ʻimārat)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian عمارت ('imārat), from Arabic عِمَارَة (ʕimāra).

Noun

عِمارَت • ('imārat) f (Hindi spelling इमारत)

1. building

   Synonyms: بھَوَن (bhavan), سَدَن (sadan)

Declension

Declension of عمارت

	singular	plural
direct	عمارت (’imārat)	عمارتیں (’imāratẽ)
oblique	عمارت (’imārat)	عمارتوں (’imāratõ)
vocative	عمارت (’imārat)	عمارتو (’imārato)