Editing Adhan (section)

== Terminology ==
{{transliteration|ar|Adhān}}, [[Arabic]] for 'announcement', from the root {{transliteration|ar|adhina}}, meaning 'to listen, to hear, be informed about', is variously transliterated in different cultures.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" />

It is commonly written as ''athan'', or ''adhane'' (in [[French language|French]]),<ref name=":3" /> ''azan'' in [[Iran]] and parts of [[South Asia]] (in [[Persian language|Persian]], [[Dari language|Dari]], [[Pashto]], [[Hindi]], [[Bengali language|Bengali]], [[Urdu]], and [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]]), ''adzan'' in [[Southeast Asia]] ([[Indonesian language|Indonesian]] and [[Malay language|Malaysian]]), and ''ezan'' in [[Turkish language|Turkish]], [[Bosnian language|Bosnian]] and [[Serbo-Croatian Latin]] (езан in [[Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic]] and [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]], ezani in [[Albanian language|Albanian]]).<ref name=":4" /> Muslims in many parts of South Asia, including the [[Malabar Coast]] of India and the [[Punjab|Punjab region]] of India and Pakistan, use the [[Persian language|Persian]] term {{lang|fa|بانگ}}, {{transliteration|fa|bāng}}, for the call to public prayer.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Miller |first=Roland E. |url=https://sunypress.edu/Books/M/Mappila-Muslim-Culture |title=Mappila Muslim Culture |publisher=State University of New York |year=2015 |pages=397}}</ref>

Another derivative of the word {{transliteration|ar|adhān}} is {{transliteration|ar|ʾudhun}} ({{lang|ar|أُذُن}}), meaning 'ear'.