اذان

See also: آذان, أذان, and أدان

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• էզան (ezan) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَذَان (ʔaḏān, “call to prayer”).

Noun

اذان • (ezân)

1. adhan

Descendants

• Turkish: ezan
• → Albanian: ezan
• → Bulgarian: езан (ezan)
• → Hungarian: ezán
• → Macedonian: езан (ezan)
• → Romanian: ezan
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: езан

  Latin script: ezan

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “haraççı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1518
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اذان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 83

Pashto

Noun

اذان • (azān) ?

1. adhan, call to prayer

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَذَان (ʔaḏān, “call to prayer”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔa.ˈðɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.ˈzɑːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.ˈzɑːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔä.ˈzɑːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔä.ˈzɔːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔæ.ˈzɒːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.ˈzɔn]

Readings
Classical reading?	aḏān
Dari reading?	azān
Iranian reading?	azân
Tajik reading?	azon

Noun

Dari	اذان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	азон

اذان • (azân)

1. call to prayer, adhan

   Synonym: بانگ نماز (bâng-e namâz)

   اذان مغرب ― azân-e mağreb ― the sunset call to prayer

Descendants

• → Assamese: আজান (azan)
• → Bengali: আযান (ajan), আজান (ajan)
• → Gujarati: અજાન (ajān), અઝાન (ajhān)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: अज़ान (azān)

  Urdu: اذان (azān)

• → Odia: ଅଜାନ୍ (ôjan)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਅਜ਼ਾਨ (azān)

  Shahmukhi script: اذان (azān)

• → Sindhi: اَذانَ