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imaret

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From Ottoman Turkish عمارت (ʼimaret), from Arabic عِمَارَة (ʕimāra).

noun imarets

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

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@misc{imaret_2026,
  title = {imaret},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/imaret},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}