Azan
(in Islamic countries) the call to prayer proclaimed five times a day by the muezzin.
Historical Examples
The old general was of a different type from the fire-eating dandies who played the master at azan.
The Valley of Vision Henry Van Dyke
Boville owed his life to the azan, the fetich cord, at that instant.
The Woodlands Orchids Frederick Boyle
Hanes in Egypt was the reverse of azan; formed however of the same terms, and of the same purport precisely.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Jacob Bryant
noun
(Islam) the call to prayer five times a day, usually by a muezzin from a minaret
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