Crossword clues for muezzin
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
muezzin \mu*ez"zin\ (m[-u]*[e^]z"z[i^]n), n. [Ar.] 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. [Written also mouezzin, mueddin, muazzin, mu'adhdhin, and muwazzin.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"official who calls Muslims to prayer from the minaret of a mosque," 1580s, from Arabic muadhdhin, properly active participle of adhdhana, frequentative of adhanna "he proclaimed," from uthn "ear." Compare Hebrew he'ezin "he gave ear, heard," from ozen "ear." English spelling is from dialectal use of -z- for -dh-.
Wiktionary
n. (context Islam English) The person who issues the call to prayer from one of the minarets of a mosque.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Müezzin is a 2009 Austrian-Turkish documentary film directed by Sebastian Brameshuber about the annual Turkish competition for the best muezzin. The film was selected for the 29th International Istanbul Film Festival and 16th London Turkish Film Festival.
Usage examples of "muezzin".
In the middle walked the muezzin, on his right Selim Aga, and on the left, sunk hi thought, Nuri Bey.
But old Selim Aga and the other sages led the muezzin into the coffeehouse and ordered coffee, Turkish Delight and a narghile, to calm him down.
She had seen the Moors of Spain upon the highways of the Limousin and understood that Moslem traders will not come where they have no muezzin, no harem where they can wash the desert sand from their feet, no mihrab where they can set their faces toward Mecca.
There--still high elevated above the rest of the company, to whom he vivaciously cries-- he seems some Turkish Muezzin calling the good people to prayers from the top of a tower.
Just as the master Arab calligraphers, commited to the notion of the endless persistence of tradition and books, had for five centuries been in the habit of resting their eyes as a precaution against blindness by turning their backs to the rising sun and looking toward the western horizon, Ibn Shakir ascended the minaret of the Caliphet Mosque in the coolness of morning, and from the balcony where the muezzin called the faithful to prayer, witnessed all that would end a five-centuries-long tradition of scribal art.
Her voice, lifting shrilly, sang the Song of Haleel, the song of the newly married, till it met the chant of the Muezzin on the tower of the mosque El Hassan, and mingled with it, dying away over the fields of bersim and the swift-flowing Nile.
Hogg had a confused image of the Moorish Empire: dirty men in robes, kasbahs without modern sanitation, heartening smells of things the sun had got at, muezzins, cockfights, shady men in unshaven hiding, the waves slapping naughty naughty at boats full of contraband goods.
The muezzins climbed the minarets for the midday prayer and announced the loving-kindness of God.
The clock downstairs struck again and again, and from the minarets there rang out, passionately and harmoniously, the voice of the muezzin.
Acting the role of the muezzin, the caller to worship, he shut his eyes and recited the Adhan, the summons to prayer.
The buddha, protecting his halved companion from the disillusioning sight of this mechanized muezzin, whose call to prayer would always be scratched in the same places, extracted from the folds of his shapeless robe a glinting object: and turned his milky gaze upon the silver spittoon.
Even the evening prayer had been hurried through by the ship's muezzin.
Bilal the muezzin: his voice enters a ham radio in Kensington and emerges in dreamed-of Desh, transmuted into the thunderous speech of the Imam himself.
Behind them, from one of the tall white minarets of the city's new mosque, the muezzin was chanting the summons for the evening prayer and the Muslim rocketmen hastened to unroll their small prayer mats and face westwards towards Mecca.