muezzin

See also: müezzin

English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /muˈɛ.zɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

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.

Synonyms

• provost (rare, obsolete)

Derived terms

• muezzinlike

Translations

person who issues call to prayer

• Albanian: hoxhë (sq) m, myezin (sq) m
• Arabic: مُؤَذِّن m (muʔaḏḏin)
• Armenian: մուեզին (hy) (muezin)
• Azerbaijani: müəzzin (az), azançı
• Belarusian: муэдзі́н m (muedzín)
• Bengali: মুয়াজ্জিন (bn) (muẏajjin)
• Bulgarian: мюези́н m (mjuezín)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宣禮員 / 宣礼员 (xuānlǐyuán), 喚禮員 / 唤礼员 (huànlǐyuán), 穆安津 (mù'ānjīn)

• Comorian:

  Ngazidja Comorian: mwadhini

• Czech: muezzin (cs) m
• Danish: muezzin c
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: muezzin (nl) m
• Finnish: muessin (fi)
• French: muezzin (fr) m
• Georgian: მუეძინი (mueʒini)
• German: Muezzin (de) m
• Greek: μουεζίνης (el) m (mouezínis)
• Gujarati: મુઅજ્જન m (muajjan), મુઅઝઝન m (muajhajhan), મુઅઝઝીન m (muajhajhīn)
• Hausa: ladan (ha), ladani
• Hebrew: מוּאַזִּין (he) m (muazzín)
• Hindi: मुअज़्ज़िन m (muazzin), मुअज्जिन (hi) m (muajjin), मुअज्जन (hi) m (muajjan)
• Hungarian: müezzin (hu)
• Indonesian: muazin (id)
• Japanese: ムアッズィン (muazzin), ムアッジン (ja) (muajjin)
• Kazakh: азаншы (azanşy), мәзін (mäzın)
• Korean: 무에진 (ko) (muejin)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: muezin (ku)

• Kyrgyz: мазин (mazin), азанчы (ky) (azancı)
• Latvian: muedzins m
• Lithuanian: muedzinas m
• Macedonian: муезин m (muezin)
• Malay: juruazan, jurubang, tukang bang, bilal (ms), muazin (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: muezzin m

• Pashto: موذن m (mozǝ́n, mozén)
• Persian:

  Classical Persian: مُؤَذِّن (mu'azzin)

  Dari: مُؤَذِّن (mu'azzin)

  Iranian Persian: مُؤَذِّن (mo'azzen), اَذان‌گو (azân-gu)

• Polish: muezin (pl) m
• Portuguese: almuadem (pt), muezim
• Rohingya: moazzen
• Romanian: muezin (ro) m
• Russian: муэдзи́н (ru) m (muedzín), муэззи́н (ru) m (muezzín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мујѐзӣн m

  Latin: mujèzīn (sh) m

• Slovak: muezín (sk) m
• Slovene: mujezin m
• Spanish: almuédano (es), almuecín (es), muecín
• Sundanese: modin (su)
• Swahili: mwadhini class I
• Swedish: muezzin (sv) c, böneutropare (sv) c
• Tajik: муаззин (muazzin)
• Tatar: мөәзин (möäzin)
• Turkish: müezzin (tr)
• Turkmen: azançy (tk)
• Ukrainian: муедзи́н m (muedzýn)
• Urdu: مُؤَذِّن m (muazzin)
• Uyghur: مەزىن (mezin)
• Uzbek: muazzin (uz)

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [muɛˈsiˀn]

Noun

muezzin c (singular definite muezzinen, plural indefinite muezziner)

1. (Islam) a muezzin

Inflection

Declension of muezzin

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	muezzin	muezzinen	muezziner	muezzinerne
genitive	muezzins	muezzinens	muezziners	muezzinernes

References

• “muezzin” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɥɛd.zin/

• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

  (file)

Noun

muezzin m (plural muezzins)

1. muezzin

Further reading

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

Polish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

muezzin m pers

1. alternative form of muezin

Declension

Declension of muezzin

	singular	plural
nominative	muezzin	muezzini/muezziny (deprecative)
genitive	muezzina	muezzinów
dative	muezzinowi	muezzinom
accusative	muezzina	muezzinów
instrumental	muezzinem	muezzinami
locative	muezzinie	muezzinach
vocative	muezzinie	muezzini

Further reading

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

Swedish

Etymology

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

Noun

muezzin c

1. (Islam) a muezzin

   Synonym: böneutropare

Declension

Declension of muezzin

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	muezzin	muezzins
	definite	muezzinen	muezzinens
plural	indefinite	muezziner	muezziners
	definite	muezzinerna	muezzinernas

References

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