dhikr

English

Alternative forms

• zikr

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ذِكْر (ḏikr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ðikɹ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ikɹ

Noun

dhikr (plural dhikrs or adhkar)

1. (Sufism) A Sufi Islamic prayer whereby a phrase or expression of praise is repeated continually.
   • 1958-1994, Hamilton Gibb & CF Beckingham, in The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society 2012, p. 62:

     When all had eaten and prayed the first night prayer, they began to recite their dhikr, then they began the musical recital.

   • 2001, Yann Martel, Life of Pi:

     We prayed together and we practised dhikr, the recitation of the ninety-nine revealed names of God.

Translations

(Sufism) an Islamic prayer whereby a phrase or expression of praise is repeated continually

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: ذِكْر (ar) m (ḏikr)
• Azerbaijani: zikr
• Bashkir: зекер (zeker)
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Chechen: зикр (zikr)
• Circassian:

  East Circassian: зэчыр (zɛčər)

  West Circassian: зэчыр (zɛčər)

• Hindi: ज़िक्र m (zikra), जिक्र (hi) m (jikra)
• Indonesian: zikir (id)
• Japanese: ズィクル, ジクル
• Kannada: ಜಿಕ್ರ್ (jikr)
• Kazakh: зікір (zıkır)
• Kumyk: зикир (zikir)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: zikr (ku)

• Kyrgyz: зикир (ky) (zikir)
• Malay: zikir (ms)
• Malayalam: ജിക്ര് (jikṟ), ജിക്ര് (jikrŭ)
• Pashto: ذکر (ps) m (zikr)
• Persian: ذکر (fa) (zekr)
• Russian: зикр (ru) m (zikr)
• Swahili: dhikiri (sw)
• Tajik: зикр (zikr)
• Tamil: ஜிக்ர் (jikr)
• Tatar: зекер (zeker)
• Telugu: జిక్ర్ (jikr)
• Turkish: zikir (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: ذكر (zikr)

• Turkmen: please add this translation if you can
• Urdu: ذکر (zikr)
• Uyghur: زىكىر (zikir)
• Uzbek: zikr (uz)

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• dhikir, zikr

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Arabic ذِكْر (ḏikr).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈdikiɾ/ [ˈd̪iː.xɪɾ], /ˈdikəɾ/ [ˈd̪iː.xəɹ]
• Rhymes: -ikiɾ, -ikəɾ

Noun

dhikr (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜃᜒᜇ᜔) (Islam)

1. dhikr (an Islamic prayer whereby a phrase or expression of praise is repeated continually)