minbar
French, noun\min.baʁ\
minbar is spelled M-I-N-B-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 114,550th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Minbar is a French masculine noun meaning “minbar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Escabeau servant de chaire, usuellement placé près du mihrab d’où l’imam ou le mollah fait son sermon…”.
What does minbar mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineminbar
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Escabeau servant de chaire, usuellement placé près du mihrab d’où l’imam ou le mollah fait son sermon (khutba) lors de la prière du vendredi (jumu’ah) dans une mosquée.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of minbar
- minbars plural
- mimbar
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce minbar?
- \min.baʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is minbar in French?
minbar appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).