单词 | call to prayer |
释义 | > as lemmascall to prayer (also prayers) P7. Islam. call to prayer (also prayers) [ultimately after Arabic aḏān adhan n.] : a call to summon Muslims to worship which is intoned or proclaimed by the muezzin from the minaret or roof of a mosque at prescribed times of the day.In later use sometimes a recording of a muezzin is used. ΚΠ 1706 tr. Arabian Nights Entertainm. IV. clxv. 145 I heard the last Call to Prayers, and made haste to set out; but the malicious Barber, jealous of my Intention, went with my Servants only within sight of the House. 1788 Edinb. Mag. Nov. 303/1 They repeat in a loud voice the Ezann, or call to prayer, which warns all devout Mussulmen to repair to the mosques, and perform the Namazs. 1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul ii. v. 202 He..stopped the usual call to prayers, and suspended all the ceremonies of religion, as if the country were under an interdict. 1936 M. R. Anand Coolie iii. 86 A mosque with four minarets from which a green-turbaned, white-robed figure, whom he presumed to be a mullah, was bawling out the call to prayers. 1976 Bull. Brit. Soc. Middle Eastern Stud. 3 13 A new and ostentatious mosque, complete with a tape-recorded call to prayer. 2010 Independent Traveller (Nexis) 30 Oct. 4 The muezzin's calls to prayer therefore clash antiphonically with the cathedral's bells, sometimes at quite anti-social hours. < as lemmas |
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