muezzin
noun/muːˈezɪn/, /mjuːˈezɪn/
/muːˈezɪn/, /mjuːˈezɪn/
- a man who calls Muslims to prayer, usually from the tower of a mosqueTopics Religion and festivalsc2Word Originlate 16th cent.: dialect variant of Arabic mu'ad̲d̲in, active participle of ad̲d̲ana' ‘proclaim’.
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