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fajr

noun

fajr is spelled F-A-J-R: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 58,714th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, fajr means “the first of the five daily prayers recited by practicing Muslims” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in fajr?

Letters4: F-A-J-R
In writingabout once in every 4 million words; the 58,714th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is fajr?

Fajr appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 58,714th 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).

Forms of fajr

  • fadjr

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does fajr mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    the first of the five daily prayers recited by practicing Muslims.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Fajr in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense dawn prayer:

LanguageWords
Frenchfajr
GermanFadschr, Morgengebet
Portuguesefajr

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 fajr come from?

Borrowed from Arabic فَجْر (fajr, “dawn”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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