Definition of minaret
:a tall slender tower of a mosque having one or more balconies from which the summons to prayer is cried by the muezzin
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The recent bombing of the al-Nuri Mosque and the al-Hadba minaret left perhaps the deepest wound on the citizens of Mosul.
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As government forces closed in around the Old City, last month ISIS destroyed the al-Nuri Mosque and leveled its famous leaning minaret.
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Their black flag had been flying from al-Hadba (The Hunchback) minaret since June 2014.
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The mosque’s distinctive minaret, which once leaned like the Tower of Pisa, was reduced to a broken stump.
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Much of the mosque and brickwork minaret was reduced to rubble, said a Reuters TV reporter who went to the site with the elite units that captured it.
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There is the wreckage of the 12th century al-Nuri mosque and its huge, leaning minaret.
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Much of Mosul lies in ruins, including the 800-year-old mosque with its famous leaning minaret, known as al-Habda, or the hunchback.
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The group’s notorious black flag has been flying from the top of the Al Hadba minaret since that summer.
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Origin and Etymology of minaret
French, from Turkish minare, from Arabic manāra lighthouse
MINARET Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of minaret for English Language Learners
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: a tall, thin tower of a mosque with a balcony from which the people are called to prayer
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Definition of minaret for Students
:a tall slender tower of a mosque with a balcony from which the people are called to prayer
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