Definitions for muezzins

muezzins mu·ez·zin

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

Muezzins is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 27 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 30 points.

You can make 119 anagrams from letters in muezzins (eimnsuzz).

Definitions for muezzins

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 muezzins

1575-85; Turkish müezzin Arabic mu'adhdhin

Examples for muezzins

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for muezzins
Scrable

27

Words with friends

30

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