minaret

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Etymology tree Arabic مَنَارَة (manāra)bor. Ottoman Turkish منارهbor. French minaretbor. English minaret 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- (“light”) as menorah.

87 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: minare — mosque tower
• Arabic: مَنَارَة (manāra) — mosque tower
• Arabic: مِئْذَنَة (miʔḏana) — mosque tower
• Arabic: مَنَار (manār) — mosque tower
• Arabic: صَوْمَعَة (ṣawmaʕa) — mosque tower
• Arabic: صومعة (ṣawmaʕa) — mosque tower
• Armenian: մինարեթ (minaretʻ) — mosque tower
• Azerbaijani: minarə — mosque tower
• Bashkir: манара (manara) — mosque tower
• Belarusian: мінарэ́т (minarét) — mosque tower
• Bengali: মিনার (minar) — mosque tower
• Bulgarian: минаре́ (minaré) — mosque tower
• Catalan: minaret — mosque tower
• Chinese Mandarin: 尖塔 (jiāntǎ) — mosque tower
• Chinese Mandarin: 叫拜樓 /叫拜楼 (jiàobàilóu) — mosque tower
• Chinese Mandarin: 宣禮塔 /宣礼塔 (xuānlǐtǎ) — mosque tower
• Chinese Mandarin: 光塔 (guāngtǎ) — mosque tower
• Chinese Mandarin: 邦克楼 (bāngkèlóu) — mosque tower
• Czech: minaret — mosque tower
• Dutch: minaret — mosque tower
• Esperanto: minareto — mosque tower
• Estonian: minarett — mosque tower
• Finnish: minareetti — mosque tower
• French: minaret — mosque tower
• Galician: minarete — mosque tower
• Georgian: მინარეთი (minareti) — mosque tower
• German: Minarett — mosque tower
• Greek: μιναρές (minarés) — mosque tower
• Hebrew: צרִיחַ (ts'ríakh) — mosque tower
• Hindi: मीनार (mīnār) — mosque tower
• Hindi: मीनारा (mīnārā) — mosque tower
• Hindi: लाठ (lāṭh) — mosque tower
• Hungarian: minaret — mosque tower
• Icelandic: bænaturn — mosque tower
• Indonesian: menara — mosque tower
• Indonesian: minaret — mosque tower
• Irish: miontúr — mosque tower
• Italian: minareto — mosque tower
• Japanese: ミナレット (minaretto) — mosque tower
• Kazakh: мұнара (mūnara) — mosque tower
• Korean: 미나렛 (minaret) — mosque tower
• Kumyk: минара (minara) — mosque tower
• Northern Kurdish: minare — mosque tower
• Kyrgyz: мунара (munara) — mosque tower
• Macedonian: минаре (minare) — mosque tower
• Malay: menara — mosque tower
• Occitan: minaret — mosque tower
• Pashto: مناره (monāra) — mosque tower
• Iranian Persian: مِنارِه (menâre) — mosque tower
• Iranian Persian: مِنار (menâr) — mosque tower
• Iranian Persian: جُوْتَرِه (jowtare) — mosque tower
• Polish: minaret — mosque tower
• Portuguese: minarete — mosque tower
• Portuguese: almádena — mosque tower
• Rohingya: minara — mosque tower
• Russian: минаре́т (minarét) — mosque tower
• Serbo-Croatian: мина́рет — mosque tower
• Serbo-Croatian: муна́ра — mosque tower
• Serbo-Croatian: мунар — mosque tower
• Serbo-Croatian: mináret — mosque tower
• Serbo-Croatian: munára — mosque tower
• Serbo-Croatian: munar — mosque tower
• Slovak: minaret — mosque tower
• Slovene: minaret — mosque tower
• Spanish: alminar — mosque tower
• Spanish: minarete — mosque tower
• Swahili: mnara — mosque tower
• Swedish: minaret — mosque tower
• Tagalog: minarete — mosque tower
• Tajik: манора (manora) — mosque tower
• Tatar: манара (manara) — mosque tower
• Tausug: munara — mosque tower
• Turkish: minare — mosque tower
• Ottoman Turkish: مناره (minare, menare) — mosque tower
• Turkmen: minara — mosque tower
• Ukrainian: мінаре́т (minarét) — mosque tower
• Urdu: مِینار (mīnār) — mosque tower
• Urdu: مِینارا (mīnārā) — mosque tower
• Urdu: مَنار (manār) — mosque tower
• Urdu: مَنارَہ (manāra) — mosque tower
• Urdu: لاٹھ (lāṭh) — mosque tower
• Uyghur: مىنارەت (minaret) — mosque tower
• Uyghur: مۇنار (munar) — mosque tower
• Uzbek: minora — mosque tower
• Walloon: tour houcrece — mosque tower
• Walloon: minaret — mosque tower
• Yiddish: מינאַרעט (minaret) — mosque tower