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  2. Adhan - Wikipedia

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    Adhān, Arabic for 'announcement', from the root adhina, meaning 'to listen, to hear, be informed about', is variously transliterated in different cultures. [1] [2]It is commonly written as athan, or adhane (in French), [1] azan in Iran and south Asia (in Persian, Dari, Pashto, Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, and Punjabi), adzan in Southeast Asia (Indonesian and Malaysian), and ezan in Turkish, Bosnian ...

  3. List of Christian terms in Arabic - Wikipedia

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    Martyr (The same term is used in Islamic terminology for the "martyrs of Islam", but the meaning is different) literal meaning of the word shahid is "witness" i.e. witness of god/believer in God. Sim‘ānu l-Ghayūr (سِمْعَانُ الْغَيُور) Simon the Zealot Sim‘ānu Butrus (سِمْعَانُ بطرس) Simon Peter

  4. Muezzin - Wikipedia

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    A United States Navy muezzin performing the adhan indoor with a microphone.. The muezzin (/ m (j) u ˈ ɛ z ɪ n /; [1] Arabic: مُؤَذِّن) is the person who proclaims the call to the daily prayer five times a day (Fajr prayer, Zuhr prayer, Asr prayer, Maghrib prayer and Isha prayer) at a mosque from the minaret.

  5. Turkish adhan - Wikipedia

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    The Turkish adhan (Turkish: Türkçe ezan) was the use of the Turkish language to officially recite the Adhan for a period of time in Turkey.The usage of Arabic was banned by the Diyanet on order of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in 1932 and was unbanned 18 years later on June 16, 1950.

  6. List of English words of Hebrew origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English words of Hebrew origin. Transliterated pronunciations not found in Merriam-Webster or the American Heritage Dictionary follow Sephardic/Modern Israeli pronunciations as opposed to Ashkenazi pronunciations, with the major difference being that the letter taw ( ת ‎) is transliterated as a 't' as opposed to an 's'.

  7. Azan - Wikipedia

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    Aazaan, a 2011 Indian Hindi-language action spy film Azaan Akbar, fictional Indian Army sniper and R&AW agent in the 2017 film Tiger Zinda Hai Azan (Az: Azocarmine and An: Aniline Blue WS ), used in histology to distinguish cells from the extracellular matrix

  8. Zuhr prayer - Wikipedia

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    The Zuhr prayer [a] (also transliterated as Dhuhr, Duhr, Thuhr [1] is one of the five daily mandatory Islamic prayers (salah).It is observed after Fajr and before Asr prayers, between the zenith of noon and sunset, and contains 4 rak'a (units).

  9. Iftar - Wikipedia

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    Iftar (Arabic: إفطار, romanized: ifṭār) is the fast-breaking evening meal of Muslims in Ramadan at the time of adhan (call to prayer) of the Maghrib prayer.. This is their second meal of the day; the daily fast during Ramadan begins immediately after the pre-dawn meal of suhur and continues during the daylight hours, ending with sunset with the evening meal of iftar.