Muezzin

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Islam The crier who calls the faithful to prayer five times a day.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The person who issues the call to prayer from one of the minarets of a mosque.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A Mohammedan crier of the hour of prayer; the Moslem official of a mosque who summons the faithful to prayer from a minaret five times a day.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In Mohammedan countries, a crier who proclaims from the minaret of a mosque (when the mosque has one, otherwise from the side of the mosque) the regular hours of prayer. These hours are dawn, noon, four o'clock in the afternoon, sunset, and nightfall.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the Muslim official of a mosque who summons the faithful to prayer from a minaret five times a day
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    announcer   
    Variant
    mouezzin    mueddin    muazzin    mu'adhdhin    muwazzin   
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