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Muezzin

//muˈɛ.zɪn// noun

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

    "approaching the mosque, at the call of the muezzin (III, xvi)"

  2. 2
    the Muslim official of a mosque who summons the faithful to prayer from a minaret five times a day wordnet

Etymology

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

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