different between minaret vs steeple

English

Etymology

[1682] Borrowed from French minaret, from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (Turkish minare), from Persian ?????? (menâre), from Arabic ????????? (man?ra, “lighthouse”). See note on pronunciations and borrowing of words with ???? (-a).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?n???t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /m?n????t/

Noun

minaret (plural minarets)

1. 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

1. minaret (tall slender tower of an Islamic mosque)

Further reading

• minaret in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• minaret in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French minaret, from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (Turkish minare), from Arabic ????????? (man?ra, “lighthouse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi.na??r?t/
• Hyphenation: mi?na?ret
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

minaret f or m (plural minaretten, diminutive minaretje n)

1. minaret

Derived terms

• minaretverbod

French

Etymology

[1606] Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (Turkish minare), from Arabic ????????? (man?ra, “lighthouse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.na.??/

Noun

minaret m (plural minarets)

1. minaret

Further reading

• “minaret” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• marient, martien, Martien, Martine, mentira, termina

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from French minaret, from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (Turkish minare), from Arabic ????????? (man?ra, “lighthouse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?min?r?t]
• Hyphenation: mi?na?ret
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

minaret (plural minaretek)

1. minaret

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• minaret in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch minaret, from French minaret, from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (Turkish minare), from Arabic ????????? (man?ra, “lighthouse”). Doublet of menara and menorah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?nar?t/
• Hyphenation: mi?na?rèt

Noun

minarèt (first-person possessive minaretku, second-person possessive minaretmu, third-person possessive minaretnya)

1. minaret.

Related terms

Further reading

• “minaret” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Verb

min?ret

1. third-person singular imperfect active subjunctive of min?

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French minaret, from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (Turkish minare), from Arabic ????????? (man?ra, “lighthouse”).

Noun

minaret m inan

1. minaret

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From French minaret

Noun

minaret n (plural minarete)

1. minaret

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from French minaret, from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (Turkish minare), from Arabic ????????? (man?ra, “lighthouse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /min??ret/
• Hyphenation: mi?na?ret

Noun

mináret m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. minaret

Declension

Synonyms

• munára

English

Alternative forms

• steple (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English stepel, from Old English st?pel, st?pel, st?epel (“tower, steeple”), from Proto-Germanic *staupilaz (“that which is steep, tower, steeple”), equivalent to steep +? -le. Cognate with Old Norse stöpull (“tower, steeple”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sti?p?l/
• Rhymes: -i?p?l

Noun

steeple (plural steeples)

1. A tall tower, often on a church, normally topped with a spire.
2. A spire.
3. (historical) A high headdress of the 14th century.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

steeple (third-person singular simple present steeples, present participle steepling, simple past and past participle steepled)

1. (transitive) To form something into the shape of a steeple.

   He steepled his fingers as he considered the question.

Derived terms

• steepled

Translations

Anagrams

• Teeples, peelest