muezzin

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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

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

This only rendered the apostate more devout than ever, and set him roaring invocations like a muezzin from a minaret. — Captain Canot; Or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver, Theodore Canot
I feel thy heart throb, 'Neath the sheltering shroud of thy snowy kiebaub; Lo, there shines Muezzin, the beautiful star! — The Book of Ballads: Eleventh Edition, 1870, Theodore, Sir Martin
Burton was thoroughly at home in Zeila "with the melodious chant of the muezzin" and the loudly intoned "Amin" and "Allaho Akbar" daily ringing in his ear. — The Life of Sir Richard Burton, Thomas Wright

muazzin, muadhdhin

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