different between prayer vs abdest

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English preiere, from Anglo-Norman preiere, from Old French priere, proiere, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin prec?ria, feminine of Latin prec?rius (“obtained by entreaty”), from precor (“beg, entreat”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p???(?)/
• (US) enPR: prâr, pr???r, IPA^(key): /p???/, /?p?e???/, /?p???/

Noun

prayer (countable and uncountable, plural prayers)

1. (uncountable) A practice of communicating with one's God.

2. (countable) An act of praying.
   • 2020 December, Dave Barry, "Year in review":

3. The specific words or methods used for praying.

4. A meeting held for the express purpose of praying.

5. (countable) A request; a petition.

6. (in the singular, mostly in negative constructions) The remotest hope or chance.

   That team doesn't have a prayer of winning the championship.

Synonyms

• orison, precation
• bead (archaic)

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

pray +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?e??(?)/
• (US) enPR: pr???r, IPA^(key): /?p?e???/

Noun

prayer (plural prayers)

1. One who prays.
   • 1974, Shel Silverstein, “Invitation”, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Harper Collins Publishers:

     If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar / A hope-er^[sic], a pray-er^[sic], a magic bean buyer…

   • 2012, Paul O'Connor, Islam in Hong Kong: Muslims and Everyday Life in China's World City

     Out of the 37 respondents, seven are infrequent prayers who prefer to leave the precise details of their prayer life ambiguous.

Translations

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