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mu·ez·zin | \ mü-ˈe-zᵊn 
, myü-; ˈmwe-zᵊn \
, myü-; ˈmwe-zᵊn \Definition of muezzin
: a Muslim crier who calls the hour of daily prayers
Examples of muezzin in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web The monotone of the muezzin beckoning Muslims to worship five times a day is usually accompanied by a rush to close stores.
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Donna Abu-nasr, Bloomberg.com, "Saudi Prayers No Longer Disrupt Shopping in Time of Coronavirus," 20 May 2020 At mosques around the world, the muezzins who ordinarily call Muslims to prayer five times a day are enjoining the faithful to pray at home, for the first time since Islam’s Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century.
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James Marson, WSJ, "Priests, Rabbis, Imams Wrestle With Coronavirus Constraints," 28 Mar. 2020 Majeed starts digging into the charity activities of the muezzin, Jaffar (Nitin Madan), as well as those of Dr. Khan (Samrat Chakrabarti), a cardiologist who offers to perform an angioplasty on Baba when the old man's heart condition worsens.
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David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, "'I'll Meet You There': Film Review | SXSW 2020," 20 Mar. 2020 Witnesses said the man who was stabbed is the mosque's muezzin, the person who calls Muslims to pray.
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Fox News, "Muslim man stabbed at London mosque: reports," 20 Feb. 2020 The mournful poetry of the muezzin’s call, the comfort of a day measured in prayer.
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Keija Parssinen, The New York Review of Books, "The US–Saudi Story, Through the Eyes of an Aramco ‘Brat’," 31 Jan. 2020 Now, sitting up on her bedding, Mayya heard the muezzin’s voice.
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James Wood, The New Yorker, "An Omani Novel Exposes Marriage and Its Miseries," 7 Oct. 2019 The male quartet Barbara Furtuna sang music from Corsica of raw emotive power, filled with muezzin-like embellishment and expressive hand gestures.
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Patrick Rucker, Washington Post, "A smorgasbord of singers delivers a timely serenade," 9 July 2019 By Samira Ahmed Babr woke at dawn to the muezzin’s call and the swoosh swoosh of street sweepers.
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Veronica Chambers, New York Times, "Viewfinders: 10 Y.A. Novelists Spin Fiction From Vintage Photos," 28 June 2019
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The first known use of muezzin was in 1585
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