Imaret
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Imaret is a noun meaning (historical or architecture) An Ottoman soup kitchen built between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, often part of a larger complex or waqf.
Meaning
(historical or architecture) An Ottoman soup kitchen built between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, often part of a larger complex or waqf.
Example Sentences
He lived in an elegant stone house, a part of the Imaret of Haseki Sultan.
It was originally built as a zaviye, or hostel, for members of the Ahi Brotherhood of Virtue; later it became an imaret, serving free food to the poor of Iznik.
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.
Word Forms
- imarets
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include inn, imambarra, imaumbarra, imambargah, imambara, meshrabiyeh.
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