: a Muslim crier who calls the hour of daily prayers
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Five times a day, a muezzin would climb nearly 150 feet in the tower’s spiral stairway to sing the call to prayer.
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2025
But then the muezzin came on the loudspeaker, announcing the burial was postponed until the remains could be certified by health ministry officials.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
Over time, as megaphones, microphones and electronic amplifiers emerged, the need for muezzin delivering the call waned and the tradition essentially vanished.
—Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024
Tall minarets of mosques marked the towns like spears stuck into the earth; occasionally the muezzin crackled to life to issue the adhān, the prayer-call to the faithful.
—J.r. Patterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Dec. 2023
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2025
But then the muezzin came on the loudspeaker, announcing the burial was postponed until the remains could be certified by health ministry officials.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
Over time, as megaphones, microphones and electronic amplifiers emerged, the need for muezzin delivering the call waned and the tradition essentially vanished.
—Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024
Tall minarets of mosques marked the towns like spears stuck into the earth; occasionally the muezzin crackled to life to issue the adhān, the prayer-call to the faithful.
—J.r. Patterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Dec. 2023
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“Muezzin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/muezzin. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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muezzin
noun
mu·ez·zin
m(y)ü-ˈez-ᵊn 
: a crier who summons Muslims to prayer
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