fajr

English

Etymology

From Arabic فَجْر (fajr, “dawn”).

Noun

fajr (uncountable)

1. (Islam) the first of the five daily prayers recited by practicing Muslims.
   • 2019, John Lanchester, Capital, Faber and Faber (2013), page 406:

     Excuse me, brother, but would you mind regularising your fajr schedule.

Synonyms

• dawn prayer

Translations

dawn prayer

• Albanian: namazi i sabahut, namazi i mëngjesit
• Arabic: صَلَاة اَلْفَجْر f (ṣalāt al-fajr), فَجْر m (fajr), صُبْح (ar) m (ṣubḥ)
• Azerbaijani: sübh namazı
• Bengali: ফজর (bn) (phojor)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 晨禮 / 晨礼 (chénlǐ)

• German: Fadschr n, Morgengebet (de) n
• Hausa: asubahi, asuba
• Hindi: फ़जर (fajar)
• Hungarian: fadzsr
• Indonesian: fajar (id), salat subuh
• Javanese: fajar, shalat subuh
• Maranao: sobo
• Persian: نماز صبح (namâz-e sobh)
• Polish: fadżr (pl) m
• Portuguese: fajr m or f
• Punjabi:

  Shahmukhi: سَرْگی f (sargī)

• Russian: фаджр (ru) m (fadžr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сабах-намаз m

  Roman: sabah-namaz m

• Somali: salaada subax
• Sundanese: solat subuh, solat fajar
• Tatar: иртәнге намаз (irtänge namaz)
• Turkish: sabah namazı (tr)
• Urdu: فجر (ur) (fajr)

Portuguese

Noun

fajr m or f (uncountable)

1. (Islam, rare) fajr (dawn prayer)