Janazah

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English

Etymology

From Arabic جَنَازَة (janāza, “funeral”).

Noun

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Janazah (uncountable)

  1. A Muslim funeral prayer, part of the Islamic funeral ritual.
    • 1875, Thomas D. Forsyth, Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873‎, page 93:
      The janazah, or funeral-prayers, are repeated by the priest, the people around saying Amin or “Amen.”
    • 1993, A.H.M. Quasem, Essential Islamic Teachings‎, page 51:
      This prayer is called Janazah prayer, It is offered in a standing position. […] The Janazah prayer is a collective obligation (Fard-Kifayah) on all the Muslims of the locality of the dead person.
  2. A bier or a coffin used to transport and bury the body of a dead person.
    • 1883, H.V.P. Bronkhurst, The Colony of British Guyana and Its Labouring Population‎, page 358:
      […] the whole are deposited in a very neat coffin — Janazah — garlanded with beautiful flowers, and covered over with a white (malmal) figured muslin.
    • 1894, Richard Burton, Leonard Smithers, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night‎, volume 3, page 189:
      Here we differ: The Janázah with a lid is not a Badawi article: the wildlings use the simplest stretcher; and I would translate the lines: The son of woman, whatso his career / One day is borne upon the gibbous bier.
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