azan (azan)

[Ar.] In Mohammedan countries, the call to public prayers, proclaimed by the crier from the minaret of the mosque. When their crier, a small wizen-faced man, began the Azan, we received it with a shout of derision, and some, hastily snatching up their weapons, offered him an opportunity of martyrdom. R. F. Burton , El-Medinah, p. 133. azarin (az'a-rin), n. A coal-tar color of the azo-group used in dyeing. It is applied only to cotton, and is fairly fast to light. It is a compound of naph. 405 thol-azo-dichlor-phenol and ammonium bisulphite. It dyes a brilliant red inclining to crimson.