Muezzin

Definition: Muezzin

Muezzin

Noun

1. The Moslem official of a mosque who summons the faithful to prayer from a minaret five times a day.

Date "muezzin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Synonyms: Muezzin

Synonyms: mu'adhdhin (n), muazzin (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Muezzin

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The muslims have to offer namaaz five times a day. Whenever there is time for the namaaz, there is a call for prayer (namaaz) from the mosque. This call for prayer is called Azaan. The person who recites the azaan is called the Muezzin.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Muezzin."

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Synonyms within Context: Muezzin

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Clergy	Mullah, muezzin, ayatollah; ulema, imaum, imam, sheik; sufi; kahin, kassis; mufti, hadji, dervish; fakir, faquir; brahmin, guru, kaziaskier, poonghie, sanyasi; druid, bonze, santon, abdal, Lama, talapoin, caloyer.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Muezzin

English words defined with "muezzin": Mouazzin. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Muezzin" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (muezzin), French (muezzin), German (muezzin).

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Modern Usage: Muezzin

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	The muezzin was a' standing (Rock the Casbah; performing artist: The Clash)
Movie/TV Titles	Muezzin el rasul Bilal (1953)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Muezzin

Domain	Title
Books	A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness Cries (reference) Ruf des Muezzin : eine schwierige Liebe zwischen Orient und Okzident : [Roman] (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Karol Szymanowski: Lieder des verliebten Muezzin Op42 (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Muezzin

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The call of the muezzin!. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: Muezzin

"Muezzin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Muezzin" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	17	85,106

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Muezzin

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "muezzin": half-guttersnipe-half-muezzin.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Muezzin

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
muezzin	17
god muezzin	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Muezzin

Language		Translations for "muezzin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		muexin. (various references)

Arabic		‏المؤذن للصلاة. (various references)

Bulgarian		муезин. (various references)

Dutch		mueddzin, moëddzin. (various references)

Esperanto		muezino. (various references)

French		muezzin. (various references)

German		muezzin. (various references)

Greek		μουεζίνησ. (various references)

Hungarian		müezzin. (various references)

Indonesian		modin (one who calls to prayer). (various references)

Italian		muezzino. (various references)

Pig Latin		uezzinmay

Portuguese		muezim. (various references)

Romanian		muezin. (various references)

Russian		муэдзин. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mujezin. (various references)

Spanish		almuecín, almuédano. (various references)

Swedish		böneutropare. (various references)

Thai		เจ้าหน้าที่ซึ่งประกาศเรียกชาวมุสลิมทำพิธีละหมา�"ในสุเหร่า. (various references)

Turkish		müezzin. (various references)

Ukrainian		муедзін. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Muezzin

Derivations
	Words beginning with "muezzin": muezzins. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Muezzin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mauvezin, Mezine, Mezini, Moazzam, muezzen, Murzi, muzzein, muzzen, mwezi. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Muezzin"

Words rhyming with "muezzin" (pronounced 'Mu*ez"zin'): Post-disseizin, Redisseizin, Seizin. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Muezzin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-m-n-u-z-z"
	-1 letter: mizzen.
	-2 letters: mizen.
	-3 letters: menu, mien, mine, muni, neum, zein.
	-4 letters: emu, men, mun, nim, zin.
	-5 letters: em, en, in, me, mi, mu, ne, nu, um, un.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-m-n-u-z-z"
	+1 letter: muezzins.
	+2 letters: muzziness.
	+3 letters: bemuzzling.
	+4 letters: muzzinesses.
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