m 3 i 1 n 1 a 1 r 1 e 1 t 1
7 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun slender tower with balconies
originFirst 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- (“light”) as menorah.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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