muezzin
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- noun
- /muˈɛzɪn/
- Every afternoon, the muezzin recites the call to prayer, echoing through the neighborhood.
- muezzin's call
Examples
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Each morning in Eritrea's larger towns, the sun is greeted by cathedral bells and the call of the muezzin.
Academic text (1996) -
From the Dome of the Rock (West Bank), which houses the famous Mount Moriah, the Muezzin calls faithful Muslims to prayer five times a day.
Academic text (2011) -
We have less than an hour before the muezzin spots the rising sun.
Fiction book (1997) -
So yes, there is the muezzin, the call to prayer, so amazing at twilight.
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Car horns competed with the muezzin's call to prayer.
Academic text (2010) -
Far off, he heard the high, amplified voice of the muezzin in Lamu calling to prayer.
Fiction book (2001) -
The muezzin of the mosque calls the faithful to prayer in ringing tones.
Academic text (2004) -
I hadn't been expecting it, but the next day began with a call to prayer, the loud, amplified voice of a muezzin swimming out of the black air when I was still sleeping.
Academic text (2007) -
Randall nodded soulfully just as the wail of a muezzin came from the roof of a small mosque that serviced the immigrant neighborhood, and the men at the next table fell to the rugs.
Fiction book (2002) -
The agitated birds flying over the roofs could not settle down and chopped at the sky with their wings, while from the mosque in the market square rose the sorrowful, piercing voice of the muezzin, wailing and making the heart quail.
Fiction book (1998)
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Etymology
The word muezzin comes from the Arabic mu'adhdhin, which means 'the one who calls' and is formed from a verb meaning 'to call'. So a muezzin is the person who calls or announces the prayer from the mosque tower, which is why you hear their voice across the neighbourhood at prayer times.