# minaret
## English
### 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: /ˈmɪnəɹɛt/
* (General American) IPA: /mɪnəˈɹɛt/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

minaret (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.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

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

## Czech
### Noun

minaret m inan
* minaret (tall slender tower of an Islamic mosque)

#### Declension
### 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: /ˌmi.naːˈrɛt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: mi‧na‧ret
* Rhymes: -ɛt

### Noun

minaret f or m (plural minaretten, diminutive minaretje n)
* 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: /mi.na.ʁɛ/

### Noun

minaret m (plural minarets)
* 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: [ˈminɒrɛt]
* Hyphenation: mi‧na‧ret
* Rhymes: -ɛt

### Noun

minaret (plural minaretek)
* minaret

#### 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: /miˈnarɛt/
* Hyphenation: mi‧na‧rèt

### Noun

minarèt (plural minaret-minaret)
* 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
* 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: /miˈna.rɛt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -arɛt
* Syllabification: mi‧na‧ret

### Noun

minaret m inan
* (Islam) minaret

#### Declension
### 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)
* minaret

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /minǎːret/
* Hyphenation: mi‧na‧ret

### Noun

mináret m (Cyrillic spelling мина́рет)
* minaret
    Synonym: munára

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “minaret”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Swedish
### Noun

minaret c
* a minaret

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | minaret | minarets |
| singular | definite | minareten | minaretens |
| plural | indefinite | minareter | minareters |
| plural | 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)