"fajr" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From Arabic فَجْر (fajr, “dawn”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ar|فَجْر||dawn}} Arabic فَجْر (fajr, “dawn”), {{root|en|ar|ف ج ر}} Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} fajr (uncountable)
  1. (Islam) the first of the five daily prayers recited by practicing Muslims. Wikipedia link: fajr prayer Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Islam Synonyms: dawn prayer Translations (dawn prayer): namazi i sabahut (Albanian), namazi i mëngjesit (Albanian), صَلَاة اَلْفَجْر (ṣalāt al-fajr) [feminine] (Arabic), فَجْر (fajr) [masculine] (Arabic), صُبْح (ṣubḥ) [masculine] (Arabic), sübh namazı (Azerbaijani), ফজর (phojor) (Bengali), 晨禮 (Chinese Mandarin), 晨礼 (chénlǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), Fadschr [neuter] (German), Morgengebet [neuter] (German), asubahi (Hausa), asuba (Hausa), फ़जर (fajar) (Hindi), fadzsr (Hungarian), fajar (Indonesian), salat subuh (Indonesian), fajar (Javanese), shalat subuh (Javanese), sobo (Maranao), نماز صبح (namâz-e sobh) (Persian), fadżr [masculine] (Polish), fajr [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), سَرْگی (sargī) [Shahmukhi, feminine] (Punjabi), фаджр (fadžr) [masculine] (Russian), сабах-намаз [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), sabah-namaz [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), salaada subax (Somali), solat subuh (Sundanese), solat fajar (Sundanese), иртәнге намаз (irtänge namaz) (Tatar), sabah namazı (Turkish), فجر (fajr) (Urdu)
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.