Etymograph

English

minaret

Minaret comes from French minaret, from Ottoman Turkish مناره ‘minaret, the slender tower attached to a…’, and ultimately from Arabic مَنَارَة ‘lighthouse’.

  1. Arabicc. 500–presentمَنَارَةmanāra‘lighthouse’
  2. Ottoman Turkishc. 1300–1928مناره‘minaret, the slender tower attached to a mosque, from which the muezzin recites the adhan’
  3. Frenchc. 1600–presentminaret
  4. Englishearliest quotation 2005same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Arabicc. 500–presentمَنَارَةmanāra‘lighthouse’
  2. Ottoman Turkishc. 1300–1928مناره‘minaret, the slender tower attached to a mosque, from which the muezzin recites the adhan’
  3. Frenchc. 1600–presentminaret
  4. Englishearliest quotation 2005same form

Earliest quotation: 2005, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade: “And in the background of the picture, just out…”

first attested First attested in 1682 (as stated in the etymology)

The story

First attested in 1682.

Every English word from Arabic مَنَارَة

Today it means

noun The tall slender tower of an Islamic mosque, from which the muezzin recites the adhan (call to prayer).

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Arabic مَنَارَة / minaret

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