مناره

See also: منارة

Ottoman Turkish

مناره

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَنَارَة (manāra, “lighthouse, beacon; minaret”).

Noun

مناره • (minare or menare) (definite accusative مناره‌یی (minareyi), plural مناور (menavir))

1. (Islam) minaret, the slender tower attached to a mosque, from which the muezzin recites the adhan

Derived terms

• مناره كلاهی (minare külahı, “the conical roof a minaret”)
• منارهٔ بیضا (Minare-i Beyza, “Minaret of Isa (Umayyad Mosque, Damascus)”)
• مناره‌سز (minaresiz, “without a minaret”)
• مناره‌سز جامع (Minaresiz Cami, “nickname of Masjid al-Namirah”)
• مناره‌لو (minareli, “furnished with minarets”)

 

Related terms

• شرفه (şerefe, “external gallery on a minaret, balcony”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: minare
• → Armenian: մինարէ (minarē), մինարա (minara)
• → Greek: μιναρές (minarés)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “minare”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3229
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “menâre”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 732
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مناره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1226
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Campanarium”, 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 139
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مناره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4920
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “minare”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مناره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1983

Persian

یک مناره
A minaret

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَنَارَة (manāra).

Pronunciation

• (Iran) IPA^(key): [menɒːˈɾe]

Noun

مناره • (menâre) (plural مناره‌ها (menâre-hâ))

1. (architecture) minaret

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: minarə
• → Bashkir: манара (manara)
• → Bengali: মিনার (minar)
• → Hindi: मीनार (mīnār), मीनारा (mīnārā)
• → Kazakh: мұнара (mūnara)
• → Kyrgyz: мунара (munara)
• → Pashto: مناره (monārá)
• → Tajik: манора (manora)
• → Tatar: манара (manara)
• → Turkmen: minara
• → Urdu: مینار (mīnār), مینارہ (mīnāra)
• → Uyghur: مىنارەت (minaret)
• → Uzbek: minora