minaret

First attested in 1682. Borrowed from French minaret, from Ottoman Turkish مناره (Turkish minare), from Arabic مَنَارَة (manāra, “lighthouse”). See note on pronunciations and borrowing of words with ـَة (-a). From the same Proto-Semitic root *nūr- (“fire”) as menorah.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪnəɹɛt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mɪnəˈɹɛt/

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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.

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɪnarɛt]

minaret m inan

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

• “minaret”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “minaret”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

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

• IPA^(key): /ˌmi.naːˈrɛt/

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

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

1. minaret

• minaretverbod

• → Papiamentu: minarèt

First attested in 1606. Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مناره (Turkish minare), from Arabic مَنَارَة (manāra, “lighthouse”).

• IPA^(key): /mi.na.ʁɛ/

minaret m (plural minarets)

1. minaret

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

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

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

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

minaret (plural minaretek)

1. minaret

• minaret in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

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

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

minarèt (plural minaret-minaret)

1. minaret

• “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.

mināret

1. third-person singular imperfect active subjunctive of minō

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

• IPA^(key): /miˈna.rɛt/

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• Rhymes: -arɛt
• Syllabification: mi‧na‧ret

minaret m inan

1. (Islam) minaret

• minaret in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• minaret in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French minaret.

minaret n (plural minarete)

1. minaret

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

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

mináret m inan (Cyrillic spelling мина́рет)

1. minaret

   Synonym: munára

• “minaret”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

minaret c

1. a minaret

• böneutrop
• moské

• minaret in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• minaret in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• minaret in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)