اذان

See also: آذان, أذان, and أدان

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))

1. (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:

  Cyrillic script: езан

  Latin script: ezan

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^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 293
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اذان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], 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^[3], 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^[4], Vienna, column 119
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ezan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اذان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 53

Pashto

Noun

اذان • (azān) ?

1. adhan, call to prayer

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَذَان (ʔaḏān, “call to prayer”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔa.ˈðɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.ˈzɑːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.ˈzɑːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔä.ˈzɑːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔä.ˈzɔːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔæ.ˈzɒːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.ˈzɔn]

Readings
Classical reading?	aḏān
Dari reading?	azān
Iranian reading?	azân
Tajik reading?	azon

Noun

Dari	اذان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	азон

اذان • (azân)

1. call to prayer, adhan

   Synonym: بانگ نماز (bâng-e namâz)

   اذان مغرب ― azân-e mağreb ― the sunset call to prayer

Descendants

• → Assamese: আজান (azan)
• → Bengali: আযান (ajan), আজান (ajan)
• → Gujarati: અજાન (ajān), અઝાન (ajhān)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: अज़ान (azān)

  Urdu: اذان (azān)

• → Odia: ଅଜାନ୍ (ajān)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਅਜ਼ਾਨ (azān)

  Shahmukhi script: اذان (azān)

• → Sindhi: اَذانَ