Definition of Imaret

1. Noun. A hostel for pilgrims in Turkey.

Generic synonyms: Auberge, Hostel, Hostelry, Inn, Lodge

Definition of Imaret

1. n. A lodging house for Mohammedan pilgrims.

Definition of Imaret

1. Noun. An Ottoman soup kitchen built between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, often part of a larger complex or waqf. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Imaret

1. a Turkish inn [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Imaret

imagist
imagistic
imagistically
imagists
imagoes
imagos
imam
imam bayildi
imamate
imamates
imams
iman
imandrite
imans
imaret (current term)
imarets
imari
imaris
imarti
imartis
imatinib
imaum
imaums
imazalil
imazapyr
imazethapyr
imba
imbalance
imbalanced

Literary usage of Imaret

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Constantinople by Edwin Augustus Grosvenor (1895)
"... degraded to an immense kitchen, wherein the food of the workmen was prepared. When that undertaking was completed, the church itself became Eski imaret ..."

2. Unexplored Balūchistan: A Survey, with Observations Astronomical by Ernest Ayscoghe Floyer (1882)
"March to imaret.—Delightful village.— Our hard times past.—The lake.—The " Ab bazi" and the fish shooter.—A new kind of wall.—Capons. ..."

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