Muezzin

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  • noun. The crier who calls the faithful to prayer five times a day.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In Mohammedan countries, a crier who proclaims from the minaret of a mosque (when the mosque has one, otherwise from the side of the mosque) the regular hours of prayer. These hours are dawn, noon, four o'clock in the afternoon, sunset, and nightfall.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A Mohammedan crier of the hour of prayer; the Moslem official of a mosque who summons the faithful to prayer from a minaret five times a day.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The person who issues the call to prayer from one of the minarets of a mosque.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the Muslim official of a mosque who summons the faithful to prayer from a minaret five times a day
  • Word Usage
    "Mr. Finkelstein rughtly points out that the Islamification of Britain vis-a-vis the call of the muezzin is yet another brick in the creation of a non-Christian state."
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