sunset prayer

noun

maghrib

Meanings

nounsunset prayer (plural sunset prayers)

plural sunset prayers

  1. maghrib

    Somehow, I needed to develop a reasonable amount of skill and accuracy before gathering the courage to join the circle of worshippers after the dawn or sunset prayer

    2009, John Herlihy, Wisdom's Journey: Living the Spirit of Islam in the Modern World
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    2007, Yousef Al-Mohaimeed, Wolves of the Crescent Moon, link I was intending to take it back before the sunset prayer call, before the shops closed, but as I was passing the taxi rank I noticed you playing with your mustache and I felt something inside, something electric, and after I had gone a few steps […]

    Though we ignored the call to sunset prayer, when we went to dinner in the Hilton's Chinese restaurant we kept our left hands scrupulously in our laps and were inept with the chopsticks in our right

    2011, Alex Jeffers, The Abode of Bliss: Ten Stories for Adam, Page 71

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