muezzin

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I felt as lonely as a muezzin, as a reluctant piano lesson on a Saturday afternoon, as the Last Post played on a cracked bugle.

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  1. noun Islam The crier who calls the faithful to prayer five times a day.

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  • Then there was the muezzin, whose strange, enchanting, melancholic call came during the night and before dawn. —  open source theology - Comments
  • The muezzin, a man appointed to call to prayer, climbs the minaret of the mosque, and he calls over the loud speakers in all directions, —  Anglican National News
  • Wizened old men make their way to the mosque, clutching dog-eared texts as the muezzin sounds the call to prayer. —  Mail & Guardian Online
  • I felt as lonely as a muezzin, as a reluctant piano lesson on a Saturday afternoon, as the Last Post played on a cracked bugle. —  C I N E B E A T S
  • It was Umar al-Khattab, who was to be the second caliph after the Prophet's death, who suggested that a person call the others to prayer, to which the Prophet instructed a black Muslim youth, Bilal, to make the call to prayer (hence the name Bilal in some languages becoming synonym to the word 'muezzin'). —  politics101malaysia
 

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  1. Ottoman Turkish müezzin or Persian muazzin, from Arabic mu'aḏḏin, active participle of 'aḏḏana, to call to prayer; see azan.

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  1. Formerly also mueddin, muetdin; from Arabic muezzin, muazzin (properly muedhdhin), a public crier who calls to prayer, from mu -, formative prefix, + 'azzana, inform (cf. 'azan, the call to prayer, 'uzn, the ear), from 'azana, hear. The consonant here represented by z is dhāl, prop, pronounced like th in English this, but in Turkish, Persian, etc., like English z.
 

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