muezzin

See also: müezzin

English

Alternative forms

• mouezzin
• muadhin

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Turkish müezzin or (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ottoman Turkish مؤذن (müezzin), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Persian مؤذن (mo'azzen), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic مُؤَذِّن (muʔaḏḏin, “one who calls (to prayer), crier”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muˈɛzɪn/

Noun

muezzin (plural muezzins)

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

Synonyms

• provost (rare, obsolete)

Translations

person who issues call to prayer

• Albanian: hoxhë (sq) f, muexin m
• Arabic: مُؤَذِّن m (muʔaḏḏin)
• Azerbaijani: müəzzin (az), azançı
• Belarusian: муэдзі́н m (muedzín)
• Bengali: মুয়াযযিন (muyayyin), মুয়াজ্জিন (muyajjin)
• Bulgarian: мюези́н m (mjuezín)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: muezzin m
• Danish: muaddhin
• Dutch: muezzin (nl) m
• Finnish: muessin
• French: muezzin (fr) m
• German: Muezzin (de) m
• Greek: μουεζίνης (el) m (mouezínis)
• Hausa: ladan, 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: ムアッジン (muajjin)
• Kazakh: азаншы (azanşy), мәзін (mäzın)
• Korean: 무에진 (ko) (muejin)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji:

• Kyrgyz: мазин (mazin), азанчы (ky) (azancı)
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• Latvian: muedzins m
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: juruazan, jurubang, tukang bang, bilal, muazin
• Ngazidja Comorian: mwadhini
• Pashto: موذن m (mozǝ́n, mozén)
• Persian: مؤذن (fa) (mo'azzin)
• Polish: muezin (pl) m
• Portuguese: almuadem (pt), muezim
• Romanian: muezin (ro) m
• Russian: муэдзи́н (ru) m (muedzín), муэззи́н (ru) m (muezzín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мујезин m

  Roman: mujezin (sh) m

• Slovak: muezín m
• Slovene: mujezin m
• Spanish: almuédano, almuecín, muecín
• Swahili: mwadhini
• Swedish: muezzin (sv), böneutropare (sv) c
• Tajik: муаззин (muazzin)
• Tatar: мөәзин (möäzin)
• Turkish: müezzin (tr)
• Turkmen: azançy (tk)
• Ukrainian: муедзи́н m (muedzýn)
• Urdu: مؤذن m (mu'azzin)
• Uyghur: مەزىن (mezin)
• Uzbek: muazzin (uz)

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French

Noun

muezzin m (plural muezzins)

1. muezzin