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athan

athan is the alternative spelling of adhan.

Meaning of adhan

Noun

adhan (plural adhans)

  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).

Proper noun capitalized: Athan

Athan

  1. A male given name, rather uncommon.

Forms of athan

pluralathans

Origin of athan

Perhaps from Nathan, via rebracketing of "my Nathan" as "mine Athan"; compare Ned, derived from Ed via rebracketing in the opposite direction.

Questions about athan

What does athan mean?
Athan means a male given name, rather uncommon.
What is athan the alternative spelling of?
Athan is the alternative spelling of adhan.
What part of speech is athan?
Athan is a proper noun.

Words near athan in the dictionary

  1. athambia
  2. athame
  3. athames
  4. athamé
  5. athamés
  6. athan
  7. Athanaselis
  8. Athanaselises
  9. Athanasellis
  10. Athanasellises
  11. athanasia

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: athan (page history and authors); Athan (page history and authors); adhan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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