mihrap
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish محراب, Arabic مِحْرَاب (miḥrāb), from Old South Arabian 𐩣𐩢𐩧𐩨 (mḥrb).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mihrap (definite accusative mihrabı, plural mihraplar)
- mihrab; a niche in a mosque, that indicates the qibla (direction of Mecca), and into which the imam prays
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “mihrap”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “mihrap”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
- mihrap on the Turkish Wikipedia.Wikipedia tr