Definitions for muezzin

muezzin mu·ez·zin

Spelling: [myoo-ez-in, moo-]
IPA: /myuˈɛz ɪn, mu-/

Muezzin is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 27 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 30 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in muezzin (eimnuzz).

Definitions for muezzin

noun

  1. the crier who, from a minaret or other high part of a mosque, at stated hours five times daily, intones aloud the call summoning Muslims to prayer.

Origin of muezzin

1575-85; Turkish müezzin Arabic mu'adhdhin

Examples for muezzin

It was the same where Hamid had seen the "muezzin" in the tower.

In my youth, you heard, side-by-side, the church bells ringing and the beautiful, sonorous call to prayer of the muezzin.

The muezzin opposite, who was courting Baia; all Algiers knew about it.

Hastening then to the chancel, he summoned Achmet, the muezzin.

The cry of the donkey-boy, and the cry of the cameleer, and the cry of the muezzin from the mosque.

From the Mosque of Omar he had heard the sonorous chant of the muezzin.

Had we been among the Moslems, we should have thought it the muezzin's cry.

Now the muezzin is finished, and everything is so very still.

He extended his arms as a muezzin does when he calls to prayer.

Like the muezzin on his minaret, the elegist calls to prayer.

Word Value for muezzin
Scrable

27

Words with friends

30

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