adhan

English

Alternative forms

• aazaan, azan, athan

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَذَان (ʔaḏān).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑːˈðɑːn/, /əˈðɑːn/

Noun

adhan (plural adhans)

1. (Islam) The call to prayer, which originally consisted of simply four takbirs followed by the statement لَا إِلٰهَ إِلَّا ٱلله (lā ʔilāha ʔillā llāh) (أَشْهَدُ أَنْ) ((ʔašhadu ʔan)).

   If one pray alone, then no adhan is needed.

Translations

(Islam) The call to prayer

• Arabic: أَذَان (ʔaḏān)
• Bashkir: аҙан (aźan)
• Bulgarian: езан (ezan)
• Catalan: àdhan m
• Central Melanau: bayeang, bang
• Chechen: азан (azan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 邦克 (zh) (bāngkè), 唤礼 (huànlǐ)

• Dutch: ezan
• Finnish: rukouskutsu (fi); adhan
• French: adhan (fr)
• German: Adhān m, Muezzinruf (de) m
• Hindi: अज़ान f (azān)
• Hungarian: adzán, ezán
• Indonesian: azan (id), bang (id)
• Japanese: アザーン (azān)
• Kazakh: азан (azan)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

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• Kyrgyz: азан (ky) (azan)
• Malay: azan (ms), bang
• Nogai: азан (azan)
• Persian: اذان (fa) (azân)
• Polish: adhan (pl) m
• Portuguese: adhan m
• Russian: аза́н (ru) m (azán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: езан m

  Roman: ezan (sh) m

• Somali: aadaan
• Spanish: llamada a la oración f, adhan m
• Swahili: adhana (sw)
• Tajik: азон (azon)
• Tatar: азан (azan)
• Turkish: ezan (tr)
• Urdu: اذان f (āzān)
• Uyghur: ئازان (azan)
• Uzbek: азон (azon)

See also

• hazzan
• iqama, ikamet, iqamat, iqamah
• muezzin

Anagrams

• Dahan, Hadan, hadna

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَذَان (ʔaḏān).

Noun

adhan m (plural s)

1. (Islam) adhan (the call to prayer)

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَذَان (ʔaḏān).

Noun

adhan m (plural adhans)

1. (Islam) adhan (the call to prayer)

Alternative forms

• adhán