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A minaret is the tall, thin tower on a mosque. From that tower, a caller has traditionally called Muslims to prayer several times a day. Many mosques now also use loudspeakers, but the tower is still the shape people know: slim, high, often with a little balcony near the top. The word names the tower, not the mosque, and not the person who calls. You will see minarets in pictures of cities across the Muslim world, and sometimes on older buildings elsewhere too.
宣禮塔（清真寺上那座細高的塔；也有人說「喚拜塔」）
組成English borrowed French minaret (first seen in 1682), from Ottoman Turkish minare, from Arabic manāra, which meant a lighthouse as well as this tower — a place of light. It comes from the same old Semitic root *nūr- (“light”) as English menorah.
同家族的字
- menorahsame ancient root *nūr-, “light”
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
minaretnoun/ˈmɪnəɹɛt/
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The tall slender tower of an Islamic mosque, from which the muezzin recites the adhan (call to prayer).
- And in the background of the picture, just out of focus behind the man, was a soaring minaret outlined against a shockingly blue sky.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。