Pray

Verb

 * 1) To petition or solicit help from a supernatural or higher being.
 * 2) To humbly beg a person for aid or their time.
 * 3)  to talk to God for any reason.

Adverb

 * 1) please; used to make a polite request.

Adverbs for Pray
fervently; earnestly; distractedly; conspicuously; solemnly; humbly; devoutly; audibly; passionately; effusively; dumbly; supplicatingly; tremulously; blasphemously; inarticulately; wordlessly; virtuously; fruitlessly; sepulchrally.

Thesaurus
call on, call upon, circulate a petition, clamor for, commune with God, conjure, crave, cry for, cry on, cry to, do, entreat, give thanks, have the goodness, if you please, impetrate, implore, importune, imprecate, invoke, kneel to, make supplication, memorialize, obtest, offer a prayer, petition, plead, plead for, plead with, please, pray do, pray over, prefer a petition, prithee, recite the rosary, request, return thanks, run to, say grace, sign a petition, solicit, sue, supplicate, will you, I beg you, adjure, appeal, appeal to, apply to, ask, be good enough, beg, beseech, brace, call for help,

Etymology
preien < preier, (French prier) <  precari, from prex, precis, “a prayer, a request”; akin to Sanskrit prach “to ask”, Old English frignan, fricgan, German fragen, Dutch vragen. Confer deprecate, imprecate, precarious.

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: prey
 * Homophones: prey
 * Homophones: prey
 * Homophones: prey

Antonyms

 * curse

Derived terms

 * prayer
 * pray in aid

Verb

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 祈禱,,  禱告,  祷告
 * Czech: modlit se
 * Danish: bede, tilbede
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Hawaiian: pule
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: प्रार्थना करना


 * Icelandic:
 * Japanese:, 祈祷する, 祈願する, 祭る
 * Korean: 빌다
 * Mongolian: мѳргѳх
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Persian:, نیایش
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: молиться, помолиться
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: rezar
 * Swahili:
 * Thai: (sùat)
 * Yiddish: בעטן גאָט (betn got)


 * Armenian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: pěkně prosit (zast.)
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Georgian: ვედრება (vedreba)


 * German: bitten, erbitten
 * Icelandic:, bæna
 * Japanese: 願う,, 嘆願する
 * Russian: молить, помолить
 * Swahili:
 * Thai: (ônwon)
 * Yiddish: בעטן (betn)


 * Arabic: صلى
 * Armenian: աղոթել
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 祈禱, 祈祷, 禱告, 祷告
 * Czech: modlit se
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: प्रार्थना करना
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Kazakh: сиыну
 * Korean: 빌다
 * Latin:
 * Norwegian:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Persian:, نیایش
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: молиться, помолиться
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ప్రార్థించు (praarthimchu)
 * Thai: เคารพบูชา
 * Vietnamese: cầu, cầu nguyện
 * West Frisian: beade
 * Yiddish: בעטן גאָט (betn got)


 * : te lutesh
 * : otoitz egin
 * : казвам молитва
 * : moliti
 * : berdoa
 * : orare
 * : skaitīt lūgšanu
 * : melstis
 * : titlob
 * : عبادت کردن
 * : a (te) ruga
 * : молити
 * : modlitba
 * : rezar, orar
 * : ప్రార్థించు (praarthimchu) (1, 2, 3)
 * : dua etmek
 * : gweddïo
 * : молити
 * : modlitba
 * : rezar, orar
 * : ప్రార్థించు (praarthimchu) (1, 2, 3)
 * : dua etmek
 * : gweddïo
 * : gweddïo
 * : gweddïo
 * : gweddïo