How to say "minaret" in Arabic
CognateMeaningminaret
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
مِئْذَنَة
miʾdhanaמאד'נה
مئذنة
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
צריח
tsriakhتْسْرِيَاخ
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
أ-ذ-نHebrew root
א-ז-ןSame root as muʾadhdhin — a miʾdhana is a maCCaCa 'place noun,' literally 'the place of announcing,' built on ʾ-dh-n, 'ear,' matching Hebrew אוזן.
Related Hebrew word:אוזןozenأُوزِن
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
مَدْنَة
madnaמדנהCairo clips it to madna.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
صُومْعَة
ṣomʿaצומעהMorocco's minaret is a ṣomʿa — MSA's word for a silo or hermit's cell.
In a phrase
مِئْذَنَة عَالِيَة
miʾdhana ʿāliyaמאד'נה עאליהa tall minaret
Plural
مَآذِن
maʾādhinמאד'ןbroken plural