The story
- Persian · borrowed fromچهل منار“ruins of Persepolis”
- Spanish · borrowed fromChilminara
- English todayChilminar
From Spanish Chilminara in the French translation of De Silva Figueroa's account of his travels in Persia from 1617 to 1619, from Persian چهل منار (čehel menâr, “ruins of Persepolis”), from چهل (čehel, “forty”) + منار (menâr, “minarets”), from the appearance of the ruins.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.