Meanings
janazah1
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of Janazah (“funeral prayer”).
Janazah2
- uncountableA Muslim funeral prayer, part of the Islamic funeral ritual.
The janazah, or funeral-prayers, are repeated by the priest, the people around saying Amin or “Amen.”
1875, Thomas D. Forsyth, Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873, page 931 more example
This prayer is called Janazah prayer, It is offered in a standing position. […] The Janazah prayer is a collective obligation (Fard-Kifayah) on all the Muslims of the locality of the dead person.
1993, A.H.M. Quasem, Essential Islamic Teachings, page 51 - uncountableA bier or a coffin used to transport and bury the body of a dead person.
[…] the whole are deposited in a very neat coffin — Janazah — garlanded with beautiful flowers, and covered over with a white (malmal) figured muslin.
1883, H.V.P. Bronkhurst, The Colony of British Guyana and Its Labouring Population, page 3581 more example
Here we differ: The Janázah with a lid is not a Badawi article: the wildlings use the simplest stretcher; and I would translate the lines: The son of woman, whatso his career / One day is borne upon the gibbous bier.
1894, Richard Burton, Leonard Smithers, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume 3, page 189
Origin
- Arabicجَنَازَة“funeral”
- EnglishJanazah
From Arabic جَنَازَة (janāza, “funeral”).
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