Related Content

In this work

Show Summary Details

Page of

PRINTED FROM OXFORD REFERENCE (www.oxfordreference.com). (c) Copyright Oxford University Press, 2021. All Rights Reserved. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a PDF of a single entry from a reference work in OR for personal use (for details see Privacy Policy and Legal Notice).

date: 28 February 2021

minaret

Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins
Author(s):

Julia Cresswell

minaret 

[L17th]

This word for a slender tower (for example, part of a mosque) comes via Turkish from Arabic manār(a) ‘lighthouse, minaret’, based on nār ‘fire or light’.