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أَذَانٌ ذ A making known; a notification; an announcement. (T, S, Mgh.) [See 4.] So in the Kur [ix. 3], وَ أَذَانٌ مِنَ ا@للّٰهِ وَرَسُولِهِ إِِلَى النَّاسِ [And a notification, or an announcement, from God and his apostle to men, or the people]. (T, Mgh.) ― -b2- Also, and ↓ أَذِينٌ , (T, S, M, K,) and تَأْذِينٌ, [the last an inf. n. of 2, and the second a quasi-inf. n. of the same, which see,] (M, K,) The notification, or announcement, of prayer, and of the time thereof; (T, S;) the call to prayer. (M, K.) [The words of this call (which is usually chanted from the مِئْذَنَة, or turret of the mosque,) are اَللّٰهُ أَكْبَرْ (four times) أَشْهَدُ أنْ لَا إِِلٰهَ إِِلَّا ا@للّٰهْ (twice) أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا رَّسُولُ ا@للّٰهُ (twice) حَيَّ عَلَى الصَّلَاهٌ (twice) حَىَّ عَلَى الفَلَاحْ (twice) اَللّٰهُ أَكْبَرٌ (twice) لَا إِِلٰهَ إِِلَّا ا@للّٰهٌ.] ― -b3- الأَذَانُ also signifies The [notification, or announcement, called] إِِقَامَة; (M, K;) because it is a notification to be present at the performance of the divinelyordained prayers. (TA.) [This (which is chanted in the mosque) consists of the words of the former أَذَان with the addition of قَدْ قَامَتِ الصَّلَاهْ pronounced twice after حَىَ عَلَى الفَلَاحْ.] ― -b4- الأَذَانَانِ signifies The أَذَانِ [more commonly so called] and the إِِقَامَة. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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