English Explanatory Dictionary

imaret

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An Ottoman soup kitchen built between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, often part of a larger complex or waqf.

Word forms

imaret imarets

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish عمارت (ʼimaret), from Arabic عِمَارَة (ʕimāra).

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