minaret
意味
- (イスラム教寺院の)光塔(周囲にある露台から祈りの時間を告げる)
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
Borrowed from French minaret, from Ottoman Turkish مناره (Turkish minare), from Arabic مَنَارَة (manāra, “lighthouse, minaret”). See note on pronunciations and borrowing of words with ـَة (-a). From the same Proto-Semitic root *nūr- (“light”) as menorah.