: a Muslim crier who calls the hour of daily prayers
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In addition to its religious significance for billions of Muslims, Ramadan also means tables laden with rich and varied meals eaten after the muezzin's call to break the fast at sunset.
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Arkansas Online, 17 Feb. 2026
The muezzin’s voice carried across the city, amplified by loudspeakers, each word vibrating through the air and brushing against walls and tents.
—Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
Omar Hussein, the mosque's muezzin and deputy imam, said his father was lightly injured in the blast and taken to the hospital.
—Amanda Castro
peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
Five times a day, a muezzin would climb nearly 150 feet in the tower’s spiral stairway to sing the call to prayer.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2025
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Arkansas Online, 17 Feb. 2026
The muezzin’s voice carried across the city, amplified by loudspeakers, each word vibrating through the air and brushing against walls and tents.
—Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
Omar Hussein, the mosque's muezzin and deputy imam, said his father was lightly injured in the blast and taken to the hospital.
—Amanda Castro
peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
Five times a day, a muezzin would climb nearly 150 feet in the tower’s spiral stairway to sing the call to prayer.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2025
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“Muezzin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/muezzin. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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muezzin
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mu·ez·zin
m(y)ü-ˈez-ᵊn 
: a crier who summons Muslims to prayer
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