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, a state of populous and industrial well-being in a house, city, or state

   Synonyms: رفاه (refah), عمران (ʼümran)

2. building, edifice, an enclosed structure with walls and a roof, usually standing in one place

   Synonyms: بنا (bina), 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”)
• عمارتجی (ʼimaretci, “director of a imaret”)

Descendants

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

Further reading

• 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^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 517
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “عمارت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], 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).

Noun

Dari	عمارت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	иморат

عمارت • ('emârat) (plural عمارت‌ها ('emârat-hâ) or عمارات)

1. building

Descendants

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: इमारत (imārat)

  Urdu: عمارت (imārat)

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਇਮਾਰਤ (imārat)

  Shahmukhi script: عمارت (imārat)

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)