[PW] ? azun

[Karen Lofstrom]

On 2/18/07, jon ackroyd <jackroyd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know what this refers to ?
>
> > imagine that laughter was banned
> > throughout your country and music
> > and the only sounds you heard
> > were the muffled sounds of the azun*
> > or the cries of other women flogged
> > inside their cloth, inside their dark.
>
> *pronouced Ah ZOON

My limited Dari dictionary/phrasebook has azan (first a as in apple,
second a as in water) as "call to prayer". My guess is that the azun
is the muezzin, calling to prayer. That would fit the context.

-- 
Karen Lofstrom