منار

Arabic

Alternative forms

• مَنَارَة (manāra)

Etymology

Noun of place from the root ن و ر (n-w-r) of نُور (nūr, “light, fire”). Cognate with Aramaic מְנָרְתָא (mənārəṯā), Hebrew מְנוֹרָה (mənōrā). Maybe there is a contamination with Ancient Greek μιλιάριον (miliárion, “miles indicator”) as the word means landmark.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.naːr/

Noun

مَنَار • (manār) m (plural مَنَاوِر (manāwir) or مَنَائِر (manāʔir))

1. waymark, landmark
   • p. 700, a forger of Imruʾ al-Qays, سما لكَ شوقٌ بعدما كان أقصر ^{[1] [2]}:

     وَإِنِّي زَعِيمٌ (var. أَذِينٌ) إِنْ رَجِعْتُ مُمَلَّكٌ / بِسَيْرٍ تَرَى مِنْهُ الفُرَانِقَ أَزْوَرَا
     عَلَى لَاحِبٍ لَا يَهْتَدِي بِمَنَارِهِ / إِذَا سَافَهُ الْعَوْدُ النُّبَاطِيُّ (var. دِيَافِيُّ) جَرْجَرَا
     عَلَى كُلِّ مَقْصُوصِ الذُنَابَى مُعَاوِدٍ / بَرِيدَ السَرَى بِاللَيْلِ مِن خَيْلِ بَرْبَرَا

     wa-ʔinnī zaʕīmun (var. ʔaḏīnun) ʔin rajiʕtu mumallakun / bi-sayrin tarā minhu l-furāniqa ʔazwarā
     ʕalā lāḥibin lā yahtadī bi-manāri-hī / ʔiḏā sāfa-hū l-ʕawdu n-nubāṭiyyu (var. diyāfiyyu) jarjarā
     ʕalā kulli maqṣūṣi ḏ-ḏunābā muʕāwidin / barīda s-sarā bi-l-layli min ḵayli barbarā

     And when I am the leader, back in the kingly rights, I trip so fast that you but see asquint the courier
     on an open road guided by no waymark, when it is smelled by the Nabataean camel dragging forward
     on every clipped bird-tail returning nocturnal journey’s mail by night from a horse that whinnied.

2. lighthouse
3. beacon
4. (Islam) minaret

Declension

Declension of noun مَنَار (manār)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَنَار manār	الْمَنَار al-manār	مَنَار manār
Nominative	مَنَارٌ manārun	الْمَنَارُ al-manāru	مَنَارُ manāru
Accusative	مَنَارًا manāran	الْمَنَارَ al-manāra	مَنَارَ manāra
Genitive	مَنَارٍ manārin	الْمَنَارِ al-manāri	مَنَارِ manāri
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَنَارَيْن manārayn	الْمَنَارَيْن al-manārayn	مَنَارَيْ manāray
Nominative	مَنَارَانِ manārāni	الْمَنَارَانِ al-manārāni	مَنَارَا manārā
Accusative	مَنَارَيْنِ manārayni	الْمَنَارَيْنِ al-manārayni	مَنَارَيْ manāray
Genitive	مَنَارَيْنِ manārayni	الْمَنَارَيْنِ al-manārayni	مَنَارَيْ manāray
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَنَاوِر‎; مَنَائِر manāwir‎; manāʔir	الْمَنَاوِر‎; الْمَنَائِر al-manāwir‎; al-manāʔir	مَنَاوِر‎; مَنَائِر manāwir‎; manāʔir
Nominative	مَنَاوِرُ‎; مَنَائِرُ manāwiru‎; manāʔiru	الْمَنَاوِرُ‎; الْمَنَائِرُ al-manāwiru‎; al-manāʔiru	مَنَاوِرُ‎; مَنَائِرُ manāwiru‎; manāʔiru
Accusative	مَنَاوِرَ‎; مَنَائِرَ manāwira‎; manāʔira	الْمَنَاوِرَ‎; الْمَنَائِرَ al-manāwira‎; al-manāʔira	مَنَاوِرَ‎; مَنَائِرَ manāwira‎; manāʔira
Genitive	مَنَاوِرَ‎; مَنَائِرَ manāwira‎; manāʔira	الْمَنَاوِرِ‎; الْمَنَائِرِ al-manāwiri‎; al-manāʔiri	مَنَاوِرِ‎; مَنَائِرِ manāwiri‎; manāʔiri

Synonyms

• (lighthouse): فَنَار (fanār)
• (minaret): مِئْذَنَة (miʔḏana), صَوْمَعَة (ṣawmaʕa)

References

• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 270–271
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 283
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1880) De vocabulis in antiquis Arabum carminibus et in Corano peregrinis‎^[3] (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 18
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “منار”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[4] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 351
• Müller, David Heinrich (1887) “Arabisch-aramäische Glossen”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes‎^[5] (in German), volume 1, page 30
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “نور”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “منار”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[6] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1327