minaret
English
editEtymology
editFirst 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
editNoun
editminaret (plural minarets)
- 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.
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Anagrams
editCzech
editNoun
editminaret m inan
- minaret (tall slender tower of an Islamic mosque)
Declension
editFurther reading
editDutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French minaret, from Ottoman Turkish مناره (Turkish minare), from Arabic مَنَارَة (manāra, “lighthouse”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editminaret f or m (plural minaretten, diminutive minaretje n)
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Papiamentu: minarèt
French
editEtymology
editFirst attested in 1606. Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مناره (Turkish minare), from Arabic مَنَارَة (manāra, “lighthouse”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editminaret m (plural minarets)
Further reading
edit- “minaret”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
editHungarian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French minaret, from Ottoman Turkish مناره (Turkish minare), from Arabic مَنَارَة (manāra, “lighthouse”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editminaret (plural minaretek)
Declension
editsingular | 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 |
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
editFurther reading
edit- 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
editEtymology
editFrom Dutch minaret, from French minaret, from Ottoman Turkish مناره (Turkish minare), from Arabic مَنَارَة (manāra, “lighthouse”). Doublet of menara and menorah.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editminarèt (plural minaret-minaret)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “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
editVerb
editmināret
Polish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French minaret, from Ottoman Turkish مناره (Turkish minare), from Arabic مَنَارَة (manāra).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editminaret m inan
Declension
editsingular | plural | |
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nominative | minaret | minarety |
genitive | minaretu | minaretów |
dative | minaretowi | minaretom |
accusative | minaret | minarety |
instrumental | minaretem | minaretami |
locative | minarecie | minaretach |
vocative | minarecie | minarety |
Further reading
editRomanian
editEtymology
editNoun
editminaret n (plural minarete)
Declension
editsingular | plural | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | minaret | minaretul | minarete | minaretele | |
genitive-dative | minaret | minaretului | minarete | minaretelor | |
vocative | minaretule | minaretelor |
Serbo-Croatian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French minaret, from Ottoman Turkish مناره (Turkish minare), from Arabic مَنَارَة (manāra, “lighthouse”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmináret m (Cyrillic spelling мина́рет)
Declension
editsingular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | minaret | minareti |
genitive | minareta | minareta |
dative | minaretu | minaretima |
accusative | minaret | minarete |
vocative | minarete | minareti |
locative | minaretu | minaretima |
instrumental | minaretom | minaretima |
Further reading
edit- “minaret”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
Swedish
editNoun
editminaret c
- a minaret
Declension
editnominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | minaret | minarets |
definite | minareten | minaretens | |
plural | indefinite | minareter | minareters |
definite | minareterna | minareternas |
See also
editReferences
edit- English terms derived from Arabic
- English terms derived from the Arabic root ن و ر
- English terms borrowed from French
- English terms derived from French
- English terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- English terms derived from Proto-Semitic
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- en:Islam
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- Dutch terms borrowed from French
- Dutch terms derived from French
- Dutch terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Dutch terms derived from Arabic
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- Rhymes:Dutch/ɛt
- Rhymes:Dutch/ɛt/3 syllables
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
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- nl:Islam
- French terms borrowed from Ottoman Turkish
- French terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- French terms derived from Arabic
- French 3-syllable words
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- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- Hungarian terms borrowed from French
- Hungarian terms derived from French
- Hungarian terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Hungarian terms derived from Arabic
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- Rhymes:Hungarian/ɛt
- Rhymes:Hungarian/ɛt/3 syllables
- Hungarian lemmas
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- hu:Islam
- Indonesian terms derived from Arabic
- Indonesian terms derived from the Arabic root ن و ر
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- Polish terms borrowed from French
- Polish terms derived from French
- Polish terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Polish terms derived from Arabic
- Polish 3-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Polish/arɛt
- Rhymes:Polish/arɛt/3 syllables
- Polish lemmas
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- pl:Islam
- pl:Buildings
- Romanian terms borrowed from French
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- Romanian lemmas
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- Serbo-Croatian terms borrowed from French
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- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Arabic
- Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns
- sh:Islam
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
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- sv:Islam