minaret

English

Three minarets of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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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), صَوْمَعَة f (ṣawmaʕa)

  Moroccan Arabic: صومعة f (ṣawmaʕa)

• Armenian: մինարեթ (hy) (minaretʻ)
• Azerbaijani: minarə (az)
• Bashkir: манара (manara)
• Belarusian: мінарэ́т m (minarét)
• Bengali: মিনার (bn) (minar)
• Bulgarian: минаре́ (bg) n (minaré)
• Catalan: minaret (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: minaret m
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: minaret (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: minareto
• Estonian: minarett
• Finnish: minareetti (fi)
• French: minaret (fr) m
• Galician: minarete
• 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)
• Icelandic: bænaturn (is) m
• Indonesian: menara (id), minaret (id)
• Irish: miontúr m
• Italian: minareto (it) m
• Japanese: ミナレット (minaretto)
• Kazakh: мұнара (mūnara)
• Korean: 미나렛 (minaret)
• Kumyk: минара (minara)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: minare (ku)

• Kyrgyz: мунара (ky) (munara)
• Macedonian: минаре n (minare)
• Malay: menara (ms)
• Ottoman Turkish: مناره (minare, menare)
• Pashto: مناره f (monāra)
• Persian: مناره (fa) (menâre), منار (fa) (menâr), جوتره (jowtare)
• Polish: minaret (pl) m
• Portuguese: minarete m, almádena f
• Rohingya: minara
• Russian: минаре́т (ru) m (minarét)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мина́рет m, муна́ра f, мунар m

  Roman: mináret (sh) m, munára (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
• Sylheti: please add this translation if you can
• Tagalog: minarete
• Tajik: манора (manora)
• Tatar: манара (tt) (manara)
• Tausug: munara
• 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)
• Walloon: tour houcrece f (neologism), minaret m
• Yiddish: מינאַרעט m (minaret)

Anagrams

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

Czech

Noun

minaret m inan

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

Declension

Declension of minaret (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	minaret	minarety
genitive	minaretu	minaretů
dative	minaretu	minaretům
accusative	minaret	minarety
vocative	minarete	minarety
locative	minaretě, minaretu	minaretech
instrumental	minaretem	minarety

Further reading

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

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmi.naːˈrɛt/

• Audio:

  (file)

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

Noun

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

1. minaret

Derived terms

• minaretverbod

Descendants

• → Papiamentu: minarèt

French

Etymology

First attested in 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

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
• Rhymes: -ɛt

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

Derived terms

• minaretes
• minaretű

 

Further reading

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

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.

Latin

Verb

mināret

1. third-person singular imperfect active subjunctive of minō

Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈna.rɛt/

• Audio:

  (file)

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

Noun

minaret m inan

1. (Islam) 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

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French minaret.

Noun

minaret n (plural minarete)

1. minaret

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	minaret	minaretul		minarete	minaretele
genitive-dative	minaret	minaretului		minarete	minaretelor
vocative	minaretule			minaretelor

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

   Synonym: munára

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

Further reading

• “minaret”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Swedish

Noun

minaret c

1. a minaret

Declension

Declension of minaret

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	minaret	minarets
	definite	minareten	minaretens
plural	indefinite	minareter	minareters
	definite	minareterna	minareternas

See also

• böneutrop
• moské

References

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