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imarets

imarets is the plural of imaret.

Meaning of imaret

Noun

imaret (plural imarets)

  1. (historical) An Ottoman soup kitchen built between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, often part of a larger complex or waqf.
    • Yıldırım Bayezid had located his imaret in the opposite direction, some two kilometers to the east of the city. Mehmed I chose a site closer to the center, between the imarets of Orhan Gazi and Yıldırım Bayezid.1996, Aptulla Kuran, “A Spatial Study of Three Ottoman Capitals: Bursa, Edirne, and Istanbul”, in Gülru Necipoğlu, editor, Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islam World, volume XIII...

Questions about imarets

What is imarets the plural of?
Imarets is the plural of imaret.

Words near imarets in the dictionary

  1. Imanqoli
  2. imans
  3. IMAO
  4. IMAP
  5. imaret
  6. imarets
  7. imari
  8. imaris
  9. imariware
  10. Imarpik Sea
  11. imarti

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