different between abdest vs abrest

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (modern Turkish abdest), from Persian ?????? (âbdast), compound of ??? (âb, “water”) and ???? (dast, “hand”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??b.d?st/

Noun

abdest (uncountable)

1. (Islam) The Islamic act of washing parts of the body using water for ritual prayers and for handling and reading the Qur'an.

   Synonym: wudu

Translations

Anagrams

• badest, basted

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• àbdes, àvdest

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (âbdest), from Persian ?????? (âbdast).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bdest/
• Hyphenation: ab?dest

Noun

àbdest m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. (Islam) abdest

Declension

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ?????? (âbdest, “abdest”), from Persian ?????? (âbdast), compound of ??? (âb, “water”) and ???? (dast, “hand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b.d?st/

Noun

abdest (definite accusative abdesti, plural abdestler)

1. (Islam) abdest

Declension

Related terms

• abdestli
• abdestsiz

Descendants

• ? English: abdest
• ? Portuguese: abdeste
• ? Spanish: abdesto

References

• abdest in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

English

Adverb

abrest (not comparable)

1. (archaic or nonstandard) Alternative spelling of abreast

References

• Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, abrest

Anagrams

• Baster, Be star, Sterba, Tarbes, barest, baster, bestar, breast, rebats, tabers

Middle English

Etymology

From "on brest" or a- +? brest

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?br?(?)st/

Adverb

abrest

1. side by side

   Owt they Comen Al On Abrest. — The History of the Holy Grail, Henry Lovelich, 1450

Descendants

• English: abreast

References

• “abr??st, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.