HOW TO PRONOUNCE
minaret
/mɪnəˈɹɛt/
Press play to hear how to pronounce minaret.
American Pronunciation Guide · 0:47
Watch on YouTube ↗
Watch on YouTube ↗
What does minaret mean?
noun
- The tall slender tower of an Islamic mosque, from which the muezzin recites the adhan (call to prayer).
Definitions regrouped for readability · CC BY-SA 4.0
IPA pronunciation
/mɪnəˈɹɛt/
Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
In the pages of books
See this word in context.
Then a lofty minaret shut the drifting quarry from his view.
A modern traveller, in twelve lines, burdens the poor little island with the following titles,--it is a grave, tomb, pyramid, cemetery, sepulchre, catacomb, sarcophagus, minaret, and mausoleum!
More book examples (3)
After looking about the interior, I ascend the steep spiral stairway up to the minaret balcony whence the muezzin calls the faithful to prayer five times a day.
As he spoke we saw smoke pouring from a dozen windows looking out upon the courtyard of the Temple of the Sun, and far above the highest minaret of Issus hung an ever-growing pall of smoke.
There was one only shining point still touched with the light of the sun, who had set for all besides; a brave sign this to “holy” Shereef and the rest of my Moslem men, for the one glittering summit was the head of a minaret, and the rest of the seeming village that had veiled itself so meekly under the shades of evening was Christian Nazareth!