In the distance I hear a muezzin calling the faithful to prayer.
Source: tatoeba (699962)
Muezzin
//muˈɛ.zɪn//
Synonyms for "muezzin" (7 found)
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Translations
80 translations across 57 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- hoxhë noun (person who issues call to prayer)
- myezin noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Arabic
1 entries- مُؤَذِّن noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Armenian
1 entries- մուեզին noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- azançı noun (person who issues call to prayer)
- müəzzin noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Belarusian
1 entries- муэдзі́н noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Bengali
1 entries- মুয়াজ্জিন noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Bulgarian
1 entries- мюези́н noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 喚禮員 /唤礼员 noun (person who issues call to prayer)
- 宣禮員 /宣礼员 noun (person who issues call to prayer)
- 穆安津 noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Czech
1 entries- muezzin noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Danish
1 entries- muezzin noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Dari
1 entries- مُؤَذِّن noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Dutch
1 entries- muezzin noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Finnish
1 entries- muessin noun (person who issues call to prayer)
French
1 entries- muezzin noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Georgian
1 entries- მუეძინი noun (person who issues call to prayer)
German
1 entries- Muezzin noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Greek
1 entries- μουεζίνης noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Gujarati
3 entries- મુઅજ્જન noun (person who issues call to prayer)
- મુઅઝઝન noun (person who issues call to prayer)
- મુઅઝઝીન noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Hausa
2 entries- ladan noun (person who issues call to prayer)
- ladani noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Hebrew
1 entries- מוּאַזִּין noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Hindi
3 entries- मुअज़्ज़िन noun (person who issues call to prayer)
- मुअज्जन noun (person who issues call to prayer)
- मुअज्जिन noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Hungarian
1 entries- müezzin noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Indonesian
1 entries- muazin noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- اَذانگو noun (person who issues call to prayer)
- مُؤَذِّن noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Japanese
2 entries- ムアッジン noun (person who issues call to prayer)
- ムアッズィン noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Kazakh
2 entries- азаншы noun (person who issues call to prayer)
- мәзін noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Korean
1 entries- 무에진 noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- азанчы noun (person who issues call to prayer)
- мазин noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Latvian
1 entries- muedzins noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Lithuanian
1 entries- muedzinas noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Macedonian
1 entries- муезин noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Malay
4 entries- bilal noun (person who issues call to prayer)
- juruazan noun (person who issues call to prayer)
- jurubang noun (person who issues call to prayer)
- muazin noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- mwadhini noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- muezin noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- muezzin noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Pashto
1 entries- موذن noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Persian
1 entries- مُؤَذِّن noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Polish
1 entries- muezin noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Portuguese
2 entries- almuadem noun (person who issues call to prayer)
- muezim noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Rohingya
1 entries- moazzen noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Romanian
1 entries- muezin noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Russian
2 entries- муэдзи́н noun (person who issues call to prayer)
- муэззи́н noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- mujèzīn noun (person who issues call to prayer)
- мујѐзӣн noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Slovak
1 entries- muezín noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Slovene
1 entries- mujezin noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Spanish
3 entries- almuecín noun (person who issues call to prayer)
- almuédano noun (person who issues call to prayer)
- muecín noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Sundanese
1 entries- modin noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Swahili
1 entries- mwadhini class I noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Swedish
2 entries- böneutropare noun (person who issues call to prayer)
- muezzin noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Tajik
1 entries- муаззин noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Tatar
1 entries- мөәзин noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Turkish
1 entries- müezzin noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Turkmen
1 entries- azançy noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Ukrainian
1 entries- муедзи́н noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Urdu
1 entries- مُؤَذِّن noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Uyghur
1 entries- مەزىن noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Uzbek
1 entries- muazzin noun (person who issues call to prayer)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
The muezzin is making the call to prayer.
Source: tatoeba (7593071)
The muezzin has given the call to prayer. Get up and pray.
Source: tatoeba (11257717)
approaching the mosque, at the call of the muezzin (III, xvi)
Source: wiktionary
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