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chazan

chazan is the alternative form of hazzan.

Meaning of hazzan

Noun

hazzan (plural hazzans or hazzanim)

  1. (Judaism) A Jewish cantor in a synagogue.

Proper noun capitalized: Chazan

Chazan (plural Chazans)

  1. A surname from Hebrew.

Forms of chazan

Noun
pluralchazans
pluralchazanim
Proper noun
pluralChazans

Origin of chazan

Variant of Hazzan.

Questions about chazan

What does chazan mean?
Chazan means a surname from Hebrew.
What is chazan the alternative form of?
Chazan is the alternative form of hazzan.
What part of speech is chazan?
Chazan is a proper noun.

Words near chazan in the dictionary

  1. Chaytors
  2. Chayuco
  3. Chaz
  4. Chazal
  5. Chazals
  6. chazan
  7. chazanic
  8. chazanim
  9. chazans
  10. chazanut
  11. chazanuth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chazan (page history and authors); Chazan (page history and authors); hazzan (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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