minaret

English

Three minarets of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.

Etymology

[1682] Borrowed from French minaret, from Ottoman Turkish مناره (Turkish minare), from Persian مناره (menâre), from Arabic مَنَارَة (manāra, “lighthouse”). See note on pronunciations and borrowing of words with ـَة (-a).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪnəɹɛt/
• IPA^(key): /mɪnəˈɹɛt/

Noun

minaret (plural minarets)

1. The tall slender tower of an Islamic mosque, from which the muezzin recites the adhan (call to prayer).
   • 2005, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade, page 37, paragraph 21

     And in the background of the picture, just out of focus behind the man, was a soaring minaret outlined against a shockingly blue sky.

Translations

mosque tower

• Albanian: minare (sq) f
• Arabic: مَنَارَة (ar) f (manāra), مِئْذَنَة f (miʔḏana), مَنَار m (manār)
• Armenian: մինարեթ (hy) (minaretʻ)
• Azerbaijani: minarə (az)
• Bashkir: манара (manara)
• Belarusian: мінарэ́т m (minarét)
• Bengali: মিনার (minar)
• Bulgarian: минаре (bg) n (minare)
• Catalan: minaret (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尖塔 (zh) (jiāntǎ), 叫拜樓／叫拜楼, 叫拜楼 (jiàobàilóu), 宣禮塔／宣礼塔 (xuānlǐtǎ), 宣礼塔 (xuānlǐtǎ), 光塔 (guāngtǎ), 邦克楼 (bāngkèlóu)

• Czech: minaret m
• Dutch: minaret (nl)
• Esperanto: minareto
• Estonian: minarett
• Finnish: minareetti (fi)
• French: minaret (fr) m
• Georgian: მინარეთი (ka) (minareti)
• German: Minarett (de) n
• Greek: μιναρές (el) m (minarés)
• Hebrew: צרִיחַ (he) m (tzeryakh)
• Hindi: मीनार (hi) m (mīnār), मीनारा (hi) m (mīnārā), लाठ (hi) f (lāṭh)
• Hungarian: minaret (hu)
• Irish: miontúr m
• Italian: minareto (it) m
• Japanese: ミナレット (minaretto)
• Kazakh: мұнара (kk) (mūnara)
• Korean: 미나렛 (minaret)
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• Kumyk: минара (minara)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji:

• Kyrgyz: мунара (ky) (munara)
• Macedonian: ми́наре n (mínare)
• Pashto: مناره f (monārá)
• Persian: مناره (fa) (menâre), منار (fa) (menâr), جوتره (ǰowtare)
• Polish: minaret (pl) m
• Portuguese: minarete m, almádena f
• Russian: минаре́т (ru) m (minarét)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: минарет m, мунара f, мунар m

  Roman: minaret (sh) m, munara (sh) f, munar m

• Slovak: minaret (sk) m
• Slovene: minaret (sl) m
• Spanish: alminar (es) m, minarete (es) m
• Swahili: mnara
• Swedish: minaret (sv) c
• Tagalog: minarete
• Tajik: манора (manora)
• Tatar: манара (tt) (manara)
• Turkish: minare (tr)
• Turkmen: minara
• Ukrainian: мінаре́т m (minarét)
• Urdu: مینار m (mīnār), مینارا m (mīnārā), منار m (manār), منارہ m (manāra), لاٹھ f (lāṭh)
• Uyghur: مىنارەت (minaret), مۇنار (munar)
• Uzbek: minora (uz)
• Yiddish: מינאַרעט m (minaret)

Anagrams

• Inter-Am., Tremain, antimer, antmire, artemin, matrine, meranti, raiment, trimean

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Czech

Noun

1. minaret (tall slender tower of an Islamic mosque)

Further reading

• Template:R:PSJC
• Template:R:SSJC

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French minaret, from Ottoman Turkish مناره‏ (Turkish minare), from Arabic مَنَارَة (manāra, “lighthouse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmi.naːˈrɛt/

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• Hyphenation: mi‧na‧ret
• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

minaret f or m (plural minaretten, diminutive minaretje n)

1. minaret

Derived terms

• minaretverbod

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French

Etymology

[1606] Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مناره (Turkish minare), from Arabic مَنَارَة (manāra, “lighthouse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.na.ʁɛ/

Noun

minaret m (plural minarets)

1. minaret

Further reading

• “minaret”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• marient, martien, Martien, Martine, mentira, termina

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Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from French minaret, from Ottoman Turkish مناره (Turkish minare), from Arabic مَنَارَة (manāra, “lighthouse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈminɒrɛt]
• Hyphenation: mi‧na‧ret

Noun

minaret (plural minaretek)

1. minaret

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	minaret	minaretek
accusative	minaretet	minareteket
dative	minaretnek	minareteknek
instrumental	minarettel	minaretekkel
causal-final	minaretért	minaretekért
translative	minaretté	minaretekké
terminative	minaretig	minaretekig
essive-formal	minaretként	minaretekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	minaretben	minaretekben
superessive	minareten	minareteken
adessive	minaretnél	minareteknél
illative	minaretbe	minaretekbe
sublative	minaretre	minaretekre
allative	minarethez	minaretekhez
elative	minaretből	minaretekből
delative	minaretről	minaretekről
ablative	minarettől	minaretektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	minareté	minareteké
non-attributive possessive - plural	minaretéi	minaretekéi

Possessive forms of minaret
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	minaretem	minaretjeim
2nd person sing.	minareted	minaretjeid
3rd person sing.	minaretje	minaretjei
1st person plural	minaretünk	minaretjeink
2nd person plural	minaretetek	minaretjeitek
3rd person plural	minaretjük	minaretjeik

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch minaret, from French minaret, from Ottoman Turkish مناره‏ (Turkish minare), from Arabic مَنَارَة (manāra, “lighthouse”). Doublet of menara and menorah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈnarɛt/
• Hyphenation: mi‧na‧rèt

Noun

minarèt (first-person possessive minaretku, second-person possessive minaretmu, third-person possessive minaretnya)

1. minaret.

Related terms

• menara
• menorah

 

Further reading

• “minaret” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) mināret

1. third-person singular imperfect active subjunctive of minō

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French minaret, from Ottoman Turkish مناره (Turkish minare), from Arabic مَنَارَة (manāra, “lighthouse”).

Noun

minaret m inan

1. minaret

Declension

Declension of minaret

	singular	plural
nominative	minaret	minarety
genitive	minaretu	minaretów
dative	minaretowi	minaretom
accusative	minaret	minarety
instrumental	minaretem	minaretami
locative	minarecie	minaretach
vocative	minarecie	minarety

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from French minaret, from Ottoman Turkish مناره (Turkish minare), from Arabic مَنَارَة (manāra, “lighthouse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /minǎːret/
• Hyphenation: mi‧na‧ret

Noun

mináret m (Cyrillic spelling мина́рет)

1. minaret

Declension

Declension of minaret

	singular	plural
nominative	minaret	minareti
genitive	minareta	minareta
dative	minaretu	minaretima
accusative	minaret	minarete
vocative	minarete	minareti
locative	minaretu	minaretima
instrumental	minaretom	minaretima

Synonyms

• munára