اذان
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Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- էզան (ezan) — Armeno-Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic أَذَان (ʔaḏān, “adhan, call to prayer”).
Noun
اذان • (ezân) (definite accusative اذانی (ezânı), plural اذانلر (ezânlar))
- (Islam) adhan, call to prayer, a public proclamation made five times a day in Muslim societies
Derived terms
- اذان اوقومق (ezân okumak, “to recite the adhan”)
Descendants
- Turkish: ezan
- → Albanian: ezan
- → Bulgarian: езан (ezan)
- → Hungarian: ezán
- → Macedonian: езан (ezan)
- → Romanian: ezan
- → Serbo-Croatian:
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ezan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1531
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “ezân”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 293
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اذان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 63
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Præconizatio”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1335
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اذان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 119
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ezan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اذان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 53
Pashto
Noun
اذان • (azān) ?
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic أَذَان (ʔaḏān, “call to prayer”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key):
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key):
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key):
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | aḏān |
| Dari reading? | azān |
| Iranian reading? | azân |
| Tajik reading? | azon |
Noun
| Dari | اذان |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | азон |
اذان • (azân)
- call to prayer, adhan
- Synonym: بانگ نماز (bâng-e namâz)
- اذان مغرب ― azân-e mağreb ― the sunset call to prayer