Prayer

Noun

 * 1) A practice of communicating with one's God.
 * 2) The act of praying.
 * 3) The specific words or methods used for praying.
 * 4) A meeting held for the express purpose of praying.
 * 5) A request; a petition.

Noun

 * 1) One who prays.

Adjectives for Prayer
idle; fervent; audible; professional; passionate; effectual; effusive; little; soft; prattled; sobbing; boding; priestly; dumb; nightly; chanted; humble; dying; melting; weak; pious; supplicating; creditable; stated; conscious; bootless; earnest; perpetual; weekly; specious; poor; hearty; masticated; wistful; sublime; tremulous; common; granted; sunrise; contemptible; insane; trembling; blasphemous; pattered; morning; awed; inarticulate; wordless; fair; consecrating; virtuous; sepulchral; long-groaned;  puling;  reluctant grateful; voluble; thankful; vociferated wrestling; high-blooded; unlawful; true pagan; fruitless; pleading; hallowing.

Verbs for Prayer
address—; avert by—; attend—; blend in—; bless in—; bow in—; chant—; console by—; fall down in—; fulfill—; grant—: intone—; kneel in—; offer up—; rattle off—s; unite in—; utter—; —beseeches

Synonyms for Prayer
orison, precation

Derived terms
not have a prayer; prayer book; prayer meeting

Thesaurus
adjuration, adoration, aid prayer, appeal, application, asker, beadroll, beads, bedtime prayer, beggar, begging, beseeching, beseechment, bid, bidding prayer, breviary, call, camp meeting, chaplet, church, church service, clamor, collect, communion, compline, contemplation, cry, devotion, devotions, divine service, duty, entreaty, evening devotions, evensong, exercises, grace, impetration, imploration, imploring, imprecation, intercession, invocation, lauds, litany, liturgy, matins, meditation, meeting, morning devotions, night song, none, nones, novena, obsecration, obtestation, office, orison, petition, petitioner, plea, pleading, praise meeting, prayer meeting, prayer wheel, prayers, praying, prime, prime song, public worship, request, revival, revival meeting, rogation, rosary, service, sext, silent prayer, suit, suitor, supplicant, supplication, supplicator, tent meeting, thanks, thanksgiving, tierce, undersong, vesper, vespers, vigils, watch meeting, watch night, watch-night service, worship

Pronunciation

 * Communication with God, act of praying, etc


 * One who prays

Etymology

 * 1) From  preiere:, from  priere:, proiere:, from  precaria:, feminine of  precarius:, from precor:
 * 2) pray: + -er:

Noun

 * Albanian: lutje
 * Arabic:
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܨܠܘܬܐ (Ṣlōtā’)
 * Hebrew: צלותא (Ṣlōtā’), תפילה
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: малітва
 * Bulgarian: молитва
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 祈禱,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: תפילה
 * Hindi: प्रार्थना, नमाज़
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Macedonian:


 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian: bønn
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, modły
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, намаз
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: молитва
 * Roman: molitva
 * Slovak: modlitba
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: bön
 * Telugu: ప్రార్థన (praarthana)
 * Thai: การอธิษฐาน, การสวดมนต์, การภาวนา
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: молитва
 * Urdu: نماز
 * Vietnamese: kinh cầu nguyện


 * Albanian: lutje
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish:
 * Macedonian:, молење


 * Norwegian: bønn
 * Pashto:
 * Polish:, modły
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Slovene:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: bön
 * Turkish:


 * Armenian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Irish:
 * Kurdish:, dua
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian: bønn


 * Pashto:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: bön
 * Turkish:


 * Finnish: rukoushetki
 * Greek:, συμπροσευχή
 * Kurdish:, nivêj
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian: bønnemøte


 * Polish:, modły
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish: bön, förbön
 * Turkish:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:, ικεσία
 * Macedonian:


 * Norwegian: bønn
 * Polish:
 * Russian: мольба (mol’bá)
 * Serbian:
 * Swedish: bön

Noun

 * German:
 * Greek: προσευχόμενος
 * Italian: pregatore


 * Kurdish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: bedjare, förbedjare