prayer beads

English

Noun

1. A string of beads used by members of various religions to count prayers, chants or devotions.

Synonyms

• rosary

Translations

string of beads — see also rosary

• Arabic: مِسْبَحَة f (misbaḥa), سُبْحَة f (subḥa)
• Armenian: համրիչ (hy) (hamričʻ), տերողորմյա (hy) (teroġormya), թզբեխ (hy) (tʻzbex), թազբեհ (hy) (tʻazbeh)
• Azerbaijani: təsbeh,

  Cyrillic: тәсбеһ

• Bashkir: тиҫбе (tiśbe), тәсбих (təsbix)
• Belarusian: ру́жанец m (rúžanjec)
• Bengali: তসবীহ্ (tosbih‌)
• Bulgarian: броени́ца (bg) f (broeníca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 唸珠／念珠 (zh) (niànzhū), 念珠 (zh) (niànzhū)

• Czech: růženec (cs) m
• Dongxiang: tesibihha
• Dutch: rozenkrans (nl) m, gebedssnoer n
• Estonian: palvehelmed pl
• Finnish: rukousnauha (fi)
• French: chapelet (fr) m
• Greek: ροζάριο (el) n (rozário), ροδάριο (el) n (rodário)
• Hausa: càr̃bī m
• Hindi: माला (hi) (mālā), तसबीह (hi) (tasbīh), जपनी (hi) (japnī)
• Italian: rosario (it) m
• Japanese: 念珠 (ねんじゅ, nenju), 数珠 (じゅず, juzu)
• Kalmyk: эркн (erkn)
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• Korean: 묵주 (ko) (mukju), 염주 (yeomju)
• Macedonian: бројаница f (brojanica)
• Mongolian: эрхи (erxi)
• Persian: تسبیح (fa) (tasbih), رزاری (rozâri)
• Polish: różaniec (pl) m, subha (pl) f, tasbih m
• Portuguese: terço (pt) m, rosário (pt) m
• Romanian: mătănii (ro) f pl, rozariu (ro) n
• Russian: чётки (ru) f pl (čótki)
• Sanskrit: माला (sa) f (mālā)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бројаница f, теспих m, круница f

  Roman: brojanica (sh) f, tespih (sh) m, krȕnica (sh) f

• Slovak: ruženec m
• Slovene: rožni venec (sl) m
• Spanish: rosario (es) m
• Tagalog: rosaryo
• Thai: ปัด (th) (bpàt), ประคำ (th) (bprà-kam)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: tespih (tr)
• Ukrainian: чо́тки f pl (čótky)
• Urdu: تسبیح (tasbīh)
• Vietnamese: tràng hạt (vi)