Min'a-ret, n.

n. [Ar. manārat, lamp, lantern, light-house, turret, from nāra, to shine, nār, fire.] (Arch.) A slender, lofty turret on the mosques of Mohammedan countries, rising by different stages or stories, and surrounded by one or more projecting balconies, from which the people are summoned to prayer.