muezzin

• mouezzin, muadhin, muazzin, muedhdhin
• muezin (archaic)

From Turkish müezzin or Ottoman Turkish مؤذن (müezzin), from Arabic مُؤَذِّن (muʔaḏḏin, “one who calls (to prayer), crier”).^[1]

• (UK) IPA^(key): /muˈɛ.zɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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muezzin (plural muezzins)

2. (Islam) The person who issues the call to prayer from one of the minarets of a mosque.

   Hypernym: cleric

   • 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer:

     approaching the mosque, at the call of the muezzin (III, xvi)

   • 2015, Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen, ONE, page 266:

     I was awoken by the voice of a distant muezzin calling the faithful to prayer.

• provost (rare, obsolete)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مؤذن (müezzin), from Arabic مُؤَذِّن (muʔaḏḏin).

• IPA^(key): [muɛˈsiˀn]

muezzin c (singular definite muezzinen, plural indefinite muezziner)

1. (Islam) a muezzin

• “muezzin” in Den Danske Ordbog

• muézin
• muézine, muezzine (post-1990 spelling)

Inherited from Middle French muessin, from Ottoman Turkish مؤذن (modern Turkish müezzin), from Arabic مُؤَذِّن (muʔaḏḏin).

• IPA^(key): /mɥɛd.zin/

• Audio (Switzerland):

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muezzin m (plural muezzins)

1. muezzin

• “muezzin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /muˈɛz.zin/
• Rhymes: -ɛzzin
• Syllabification: mu‧ez‧zin

muezzin m pers

1. alternative form of muezin

• muezzin in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• muezzin in PWN's encyclopedia

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مؤذن (müezzin), from Arabic مُؤَذِّن (muʔaḏḏin).

muezzin c

1. (Islam) a muezzin

   Synonym: böneutropare

• muezzin in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• muezzin in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)