prayer wheel

English

Noun

prayer wheel (plural prayer wheels)

1. (Buddhism) A rotating cylinder either inscribed with or containing prayers, mainly used by Tibetan Buddhists.

   Synonyms: mani wheel, prayer mill, praying machine

Translations

rotating cylinder containing prayers

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 轉經筒 / 转经筒 (zhuǎnjīngtǒng)

• Danish: bedemølle c
• Finnish: rukousmylly (fi)
• French: roue de prière f
• German: Gebetsmühle (de) f
• Hungarian: imamalom (hu), imakerék
• Japanese: マニ車 (maniguruma)
• Mongolian: мөргөлийн хүрд (mörgöliin xürd), хүрд (mn) (xürd)
• Portuguese: roda de oração f
• Russian: моли́твенное колесо́ n (molítvennoje kolesó)
• Spanish: rueda de plegaria
• Swedish: bönekvarn c
• Tibetan: མ་ནི་ཆོས་འཁོར (ma ni chos 'khor)
• Urdu: آلات عبادت (ur) m (ālāt ibādat)

Further reading

• prayer wheel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia