adhan
/ɑːˈðɑːn/noun
adhan is a noun meaning “The call to prayer, usually recited by a muezzin before each of the five obligatory daily prayers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-D-H-A-N, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of adhan is adhans.
What does adhan mean?
noun
- 1
The call to prayer, usually recited by a muezzin before each of the five obligatory daily prayers.
If one were to pray alone and cannot hear the adhan from a nearby mosque, then giving both the adhan and iqamah is Sunnah (recommended).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce adhan?
- /ɑːˈðɑːn/
- /əˈðɑːn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-adhan.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of adhan
- adhans plural
- aazaan
- azan
- athan
- adhaan
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is adhan?
Adhan appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 138,319th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Adhan in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense (Islam) the call to prayer:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | adhan |
| German | Adhān, Muezzinruf, Gebetsruf |
| Portuguese | adhan |
| Spanish | llamada a la oración, adhan |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does adhan come from?
Borrowed from Arabic أَذَان (ʔaḏān).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).