Definition of muezzin
: a Muslim crier who calls the hour of daily prayers
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Along with the muezzin’s call to prayer the unfamiliar sound of laughter can be heard.
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Then a cannon booms and a muezzin's voice rings out.
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Then a cannon booms and a muezzin’s voice rings out.
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The mosque’s imam and muezzin were at the funeral, too, their heads swathed in bandages after being wounded in the attack.
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Without electricity or loudspeakers to broadcast the call to prayer, muezzins must rely on the strength of their own voices for the five-times-a-day ritual.
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And Norman Sider, a 49-year member of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation, was reminded by the sound of the call to prayer to the streets in Israel where the muezzin's calls were heard over loudspeakers.
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Visitors looking for a minaret or trying to follow the call of the muezzin will search in vain.
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Designed by Berlin artist Oliver Sturm, the former photo booth offers a vast variety of prayers, including the Christian Lord's Prayer, the Jewish Shma Israel and the Islamic muezzin's call to prayer.
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Origin and Etymology of muezzin
ultimately from Arabic mu'adhdhin
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