Hafiz
WiktionaryText
Etymology
Persian, from Arabic ʜāfiẓ, present participle of ʜáfiẓa ‘to guard, know by heart’.
Noun
- a Muslim who can recite the Qur’an by heart
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- 2001: He was a hafiz, one who knows the Qur’an by heart, and he sang it in a slow, simple chant. — Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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