Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An inn or hostel for pilgrims in Turkey.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of hospice or hostelry for the free accommodation of Mohammedan pilgrims and other travelers in the Turkish empire.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A lodging house for Mohammedan pilgrims.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
Ottoman soup kitchen built between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, often part of a largercomplex orwaqf .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a hostel for pilgrims in Turkey
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word imaret.
Examples
-
Kavala also has a beautiful "imaret" - a type of charity association built during the Ottoman period.
-
Kavala also has a beautiful "imaret" - a type of charity association built during the Ottoman period.
-
Kavala also has a beautiful "imaret" - a type of charity association built during the Ottoman period.
-
The remarkable church of this monastery still exists as a mosque, and is known as Eski imaret Mahallasse.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante)
-
Found on the peninsula containing Kavala's old city, "[T.e imaret] was used both for charitable acts and later also as a possible base for supporting troops passing through," said Michael Lychounas, Kavala's archeologist and head of the Institute Mohamed Ali for the Research of Eastern T.adition, or I.M.A.R.E.T. After being used for welfare - and education-educated activities, Kavala's imaret gradually fell into disrepair.
-
More than that, Lychounas said, "It is a new conception of a hotel; the imaret has not renounced its cultural soul as it was saved from ruin."
-
Found on the peninsula containing Kavala's old city, "[T.e imaret] was used both for charitable acts and later also as a possible base for supporting troops passing through," said Michael Lychounas, Kavala's archeologist and head of the Institute Mohamed Ali for the Research of Eastern T.adition, or I.M.A.R.E.T. After being used for welfare - and education-educated activities, Kavala's imaret gradually fell into disrepair.
-
His wife, Anna Missran, is a Greek woman who played an important role in restoring the imaret, working hard to refurbish the imaret and turn the structure into a charming hotel with the support of the Egyptian government, which now owns the facility.
-
His wife, Anna Missran, is a Greek woman who played an important role in restoring the imaret, working hard to refurbish the imaret and turn the structure into a charming hotel with the support of the Egyptian government, which now owns the facility.
-
Found on the peninsula containing Kavala's old city, "[T.e imaret] was used both for charitable acts and later also as a possible base for supporting troops passing through," said Michael Lychounas, Kavala's archeologist and head of the Institute Mohamed Ali for the Research of Eastern T.adition, or I.M.A.R.E.T. After being used for welfare - and education-educated activities, Kavala's imaret gradually fell into disrepair.
qms commented on the word imaret
A sultan could put up a minaret
But virtuous actions are better yet.
He'll garner more blessing
By simply addressing
The needs of the poor in an imaret.
September 7, 2016