عمارت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عِمَارَة (ʕimāra, “building, structure”).

Noun

عمارت • (ʼimaret) (definite accusative عمارتی (ʼimareti), plural عمارتلر (ʼimaretler))

prosperity, welfare
Synonyms: رفاه (refah), عمران (ʼümran)
building, edifice
Synonyms: بنا (binâ), یاپی (yapı)
imaret (an Ottoman soup kitchen which gave out food that was free for poor or needy people)

Derived terms

عمارت ایتمك (ʼimaret etmek, “to repair, restore”)
عمارت چورباسی (ʼimaret çorbası, “free meal”, literally “imaret's soup”)
عمارتجی (ʼimaretci, “director of a imaret”)

Descendants

Turkish: imaret
→ Armenian: իմարէթ (imarētʻ)
→ Bulgarian: имарет (imaret)
→ English: imaret
→ Macedonian: имарет (imaret)

Further reading

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Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886), “عمارت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 368
Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “imaret”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2159
Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “imâret”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 517
Kélékian, Diran (1911), “عمارت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 859
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Xenodochium”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1803
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “عمارت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3325
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “imaret”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “عمارت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1320

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عِمَارَة (ʕimāra).

Noun


Iranian Persian	عمارت
Dari	عمارت
Tajik	иморат

عمارت • (imārat / emârat) (plural عمارت‌ها (imārat-hā / emârat-hâ), or عمارات, Tajik spelling иморат)

building

Descendants

→ Hindustani:
Hindi: इमारत (imārat)

Urdu: عِمارَت ('imārat)
→ Punjabi:
Gurmukhi script: ਇਮਾਰਤ (imārat)

Shahmukhi script: عِمارَت (ʻimārat)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian ('imārat), from Arabic عِمَارَة (ʕimāra).

Noun

عِمارَت • ('imārat) f (Hindi spelling इमारत)

building
Synonyms: بھَوَن (bhavan), سَدَن (sadan)

Declension

Declension of **عمارت**
	singular	plural
direct	عمارت (’imārat)	عمارتیں (’imāratẽ)
oblique	عمارت (’imārat)	عمارتوں (’imāratõ)
vocative	عمارت (’imārat)	عمارتو (’imārato)