muezzin

What does muezzin mean?

muezzin means "the Muslim official of a mosque who summons the faithful to prayer from a minaret five times a day".

How many syllables are in muezzin?

muezzin has 2 syllables and divides as muez-zin under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for muezzin?

Close synonyms include muazzin, muadhdhin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is muezzin a common word?

muezzin is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for muezzin come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.