Prayer

//pɹɛə//

Synonyms for "prayer" (122 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (25)

entreaty orison adjuration adoration aid prayer angelus appeal application asker ave ave maria bead beadroll beads bedtime prayer beggar begging beseeching beseechment bid

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bidding prayer blessing

Noun(3 words)

orison appeal bead

Strong matches (36)

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

9 relation types

More general

8 entries

asking religious person religious text religious writing request sacred text sacred writing worship

Synonyms

3 entries

bead entreaty orison

at location

1 entries

church

capable of

1 entries

quiet troubled soul

derived

45 entries

Friday prayers Prayers of the People antiprayer arrow prayer call to prayer dawn prayer evening prayer house of prayer morning prayer not have a prayer on a wing and a prayer prayer bead prayer beads prayer book prayer box prayer bump

Showing 16 of 45 words.

derived from

1 entries

pray

has context

1 entries

mostly in negative constructions

is a

7 entries

attempted communication with supernatural beings information transfer religionist request ritual sacred text worship

related to

44 entries

activity asking asking god church communicate communicate gad conversation daily daily activity folded folded hands gad gesture god god conversation god talking

Showing 16 of 44 words.

Translations

403 translations across 144 languages.

Adyghe

1 entries

дыухьэ noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Afrikaans

4 entries

bede noun (a request; a petition)
bid noun (the act of praying)
bidder noun (one who prays)
gebed noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Albanian

2 entries

lutje noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
lutje noun (the act of praying)

Amharic

1 entries

ጸሎት noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Ancient Greek

2 entries

εὐχή noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
εὐχή noun (the act of praying)

Arabic

4 entries

دُعا noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
دُعَاء noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
صلا noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
صلاة noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Aramaic

2 entries

צְלוֹתָא noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
ܨܠܘܬܐ noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Armenian

3 entries

աղոթք noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
աղոթք noun (the act of praying)
աղոթք noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)

Assamese

1 entries

প্ৰাৰ্থনা noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Asturian

1 entries

oración noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Avar

1 entries

дугӏа noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Azerbaijani

2 entries

dua noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
namaz noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Balinese

3 entries

japa noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
mantra noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
saa noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Bashkir

4 entries

доға noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
доға noun (the act of praying)
доға noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)
намаҙ noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Basque

4 entries

otoi noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
otoitz noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
otoitz noun (the act of praying)
otoitzaldi noun (the act of praying)

Belarusian

1 entries

малі́тва noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Bengali

4 entries

দোয়া noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
নামাজ noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
নামাজী noun (one who prays)
প্রার্থনা noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Bikol Central

1 entries

pangadyi noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Bulgarian

4 entries

молба́ noun (a request; a petition)
моле́бен noun (a meeting held for the express purpose of praying)
молещ се noun (one who prays)
моли́тва noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Burmese

1 entries

ပတ္ထနာ noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Carpathian Rusyn

1 entries

молитва noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Catalan

3 entries

oració noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
pregària noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
rés noun (the act of praying)

Central Dusun

1 entries

samb̲ayang noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Central Kurdish

4 entries

دوعا noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)
نوێژ noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
نوێژ noun (a meeting held for the express purpose of praying)
نوێژ کردن noun (the act of praying)

Chinese

2 entries

дўвар noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
祈禱 /祈祷 noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

祈禱 /祈祷 noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

祈禱 /祈祷 noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Church Slavic

2 entries

молитва noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
ⰿⱁⰾⰻⱅⰲⰰ noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Chuvash

1 entries

кӗлӗ noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Czech

4 entries

modlení noun (the act of praying)
modlitba noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
modlitba noun (the act of praying)
modlitba noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)

Danish

2 entries

bøn noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
bøn noun (the act of praying)

Dhivehi

1 entries

ނަމާދު noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Dutch

4 entries

bede noun (a request; a petition)
bidden noun (the act of praying)
gebed noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
gebed noun (the act of praying)

Egyptian

4 entries

n:nH-H-A2 noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
n:nH-H-A2 noun (the act of praying)
z:SA-A-F5-Y1 noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
z:SA-A-F5-Y1 noun (the act of praying)

Esperanto

1 entries

preĝo noun (the act of praying)

Estonian

1 entries

palve noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Faroese

1 entries

bøn noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Finnish

4 entries

pyyntö noun (a request; a petition)
rukoileminen noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
rukoileminen noun (the act of praying)
rukous noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

French

4 entries

prière noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
prière noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)
prière noun (a request; a petition)
prières noun (a meeting held for the express purpose of praying)

Friulian

3 entries

jaculatorie noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
orazion noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
preiere noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Galician

2 entries

oración noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
orazón noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Georgian

1 entries

ლოცვა noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

German

4 entries

Beter noun (one who prays)
Beterin noun (one who prays)
Gebet noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
Gebet noun (the act of praying)

Gothic

2 entries

𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄𐍂𐍉𐌽𐍃 noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
𐌱𐌹𐌳𐌰 noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Greek

4 entries

ικεσία noun (a request; a petition)
προσευχή noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
προσευχή noun (the act of praying)
προσευχή noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)

Gujarati

1 entries

પ્રાર્થના noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Hausa

1 entries

salla noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Hebrew

1 entries

תפילה \ תְּפִלָּה noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Hindi

4 entries

अर्चना noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
उपासना noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
दुआ noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
नमाज़ noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Hungarian

4 entries

fohász noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)
fohászkodás noun (the act of praying)
ima noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
ima noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)

Icelandic

1 entries

bæn noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Indonesian

4 entries

doa noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
doa noun (the act of praying)
doa noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)
salat noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Ingrian

2 entries

malitva noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
rissimä noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Ingush

1 entries

дуӏа noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Iranian Persian

3 entries

دُعا noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
صَلات noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
نَماز noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Irish

4 entries

guí noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
guí noun (the act of praying)
paidir noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
paidir noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)

Italian

4 entries

orazione noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
prece noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
pregatore noun (one who prays)
pregatrice noun (one who prays)

Japanese

3 entries

祈り noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
祈り noun (the act of praying)
祈祷 noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Judeo-Italian

1 entries

אוּרַאצִיאוֹנַה noun (the act of praying)

Kannada

1 entries

ಪ್ರಾರ್ಥನೆ noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Kazakh

4 entries

бата noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
бата noun (the act of praying)
дұға noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
мінәжат noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Khmer

1 entries

ធម៌ noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Korean

2 entries

기도 noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
빔 noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Kyrgyz

2 entries

дуба noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
намаз noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Lao

2 entries

ພາວະນາ noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
ອະຖິຖານ noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Latin

4 entries

precatio noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
precatio noun (the act of praying)
precatio noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)
prex noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Latvian

1 entries

lūgšana noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Lezgi

1 entries

дуьа noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Ligurian

1 entries

preghëa noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Lithuanian

1 entries

malda noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Lombard

1 entries

orazión noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Lutuv

1 entries

thlaachuona noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Luxembourgish

1 entries

Gebiet noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Macedonian

4 entries

молба noun (a request; a petition)
молење noun (the act of praying)
молитва noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
молитва noun (the act of praying)

Maguindanao

1 entries

cadsambayang noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Malay

2 entries

sembahyang noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
solat noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Malayalam

4 entries

പ്രാർത്ഥന noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
പ്രാർത്ഥന noun (the act of praying)
പ്രാർത്ഥന noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)
പ്രാർത്ഥന noun (a meeting held for the express purpose of praying)

Maranao

1 entries

sambayang noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Marathi

1 entries

प्रार्थना noun (a request; a petition)

Marwari

1 entries

गुजारिस noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Minangkabau

1 entries

doa noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Mongolian

2 entries

залбирал noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
ᠵᠠᠯᠪᠠᠷᠢᠯ noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Māori

1 entries

karakia noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Navajo

1 entries

sodizin noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Norman

1 entries

priéthe noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Northern Kurdish

3 entries

dua noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)
nivêj noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
nivêj noun (a meeting held for the express purpose of praying)

Norwegian Bokmål

4 entries

bønn noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
bønn noun (the act of praying)
bønn noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)
bønn noun (a request; a petition)

Norwegian Nynorsk

4 entries

bønn noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
bønn noun (the act of praying)
bønn noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)
bønn noun (a request; a petition)

Occitan

1 entries

prèga noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Odia

1 entries

ପ୍ରାର୍ଥନା noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Ojibwe

1 entries

anami'ewin noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Okinawan

2 entries

かみにげー noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
御願 noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Old East Slavic

1 entries

молитва noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Old English

2 entries

ġebed noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
ġebed noun (the act of praying)

Old Irish

2 entries

guide noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
guide noun (the act of praying)

Oromo

1 entries

kadhata noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Ottoman Turkish

4 entries

دعا noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
دعا noun (the act of praying)
دعا noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)
نماز noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Pannonian Rusyn

1 entries

молитва noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Pashto

4 entries

دعا noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
صلات noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
لمونځ noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
لمونځ noun (the act of praying)

Piedmontese

1 entries

orassion noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Plautdietsch

2 entries

Jebäd noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
Jebäd noun (the act of praying)

Polish

4 entries

modlitwa noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
modlitwa noun (the act of praying)
modlitwa noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)
modlitwa noun (a meeting held for the express purpose of praying)

Portuguese

4 entries

culto noun (a meeting held for the express purpose of praying)
missa noun (a meeting held for the express purpose of praying)
orador noun (one who prays)
oradora noun (one who prays)

Punjabi

1 entries

ਪ੍ਰਾਰਥਨਾ noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Rohingya

1 entries

dua noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Romagnol

2 entries

urazion noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
urazion noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)

Romanian

4 entries

rugăciune noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
rugăciune noun (the act of praying)
serviciu divin noun (a meeting held for the express purpose of praying)
slujbă religioasă noun (a meeting held for the express purpose of praying)

Romansch

4 entries

oraziun noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
urazchun noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
uraziun noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
uraziun noun (the act of praying)

Russian

4 entries

моле́бен noun (a meeting held for the express purpose of praying)
моли́тва noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
моли́тва noun (the act of praying)
моли́тва noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)

Sanskrit

1 entries

प्रार्थना noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Scottish Gaelic

4 entries

ùrnaigh noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
ùrnaigh noun (the act of praying)
ùrnaigh noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)
ùrnaigh noun (a meeting held for the express purpose of praying)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

mòlba noun (a request; a petition)
mòlitva noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
mòlitva noun (the act of praying)
mòlitva noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)

Sicilian

1 entries

prijera noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Sindhi

1 entries

نماز noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Slovak

1 entries

modlitba noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Slovene

4 entries

molitev noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
molitev noun (the act of praying)
molitev noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)
molitev noun (a meeting held for the express purpose of praying)

Sotho

4 entries

ho rapela noun (the act of praying)
kopano ya thapelo noun (a meeting held for the express purpose of praying)
kopo noun (a request; a petition)
mantswe a thapelo noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)

Southern Altai

2 entries

кудай сӧзӱ noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
мӧргӱ noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Spanish

4 entries

oración noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
oración noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)
orador noun (one who prays)
oradora noun (one who prays)

Swahili

4 entries

sala noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)
swala noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
swala noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)
swali noun (the act of praying)

Swedish

4 entries

bedjare noun (one who prays)
bön noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
bön noun (the act of praying)
bön noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)

Tagalog

1 entries

dasal noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Tajik

4 entries

дуо noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
дуъо noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
намоз noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
салот noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Tamil

1 entries

பிரார்த்தனை noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Tatar

2 entries

дога noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
намаз noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Telugu

1 entries

ప్రార్థన noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Thai

3 entries

ภาวนา noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
สวดมนต์ noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
อธิษฐาน noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Tibetan

1 entries

བཀའ་བསྒོ noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Tigrinya

1 entries

ጸሎት noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Tok Pisin

1 entries

prea noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Turkish

4 entries

dua noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
dua noun (the act of praying)
dua noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)
dua noun (a meeting held for the express purpose of praying)

Turkmen

3 entries

dileg noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
doga noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
namaz noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Ugaritic

1 entries

𐎕𐎍𐎚 noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Ukrainian

3 entries

моли́тва noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
молитва noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)
пацєр noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)

Urdu

3 entries

دُعا noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
صَلات noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
نَماز noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Uyghur

2 entries

دۇئا noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
ناماز noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Uzbek

3 entries

duo noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
namoz noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
salot noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Venetan

1 entries

orassión noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Vietnamese

3 entries

kinh cầu nguyện noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
kinh nguyện noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
ý nguyện noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Waray-Waray

2 entries

pa-nga-di noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
pa-nga-dji noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Welsh

4 entries

erfyniad noun (a request; a petition)
gweddi noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
gweddi noun (the specific words or methods used for praying)
gweddi noun (a request; a petition)

Western Apache

1 entries

ʼokąąhí noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Yiddish

2 entries

תּפֿילה noun (practice of communicating with one's God)
תּפֿילה noun (the act of praying)

Zazaki

1 entries

duwa noun (practice of communicating with one's God)

Sample sentences

21 total sentences available.

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Your team doesn't have a prayer to win the championship game.

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Your prayer will be answered.

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My prayer was answered.

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They offer an earnest prayer on the evening of December 24.

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Prayer

Synonyms for "prayer" (122 found)

Closest matches (25)

Strong matches (36)

Related words (61)

Related word relations

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Synonyms

at location

capable of

derived

derived from

has context

is a

related to

Translations

Adyghe

Afrikaans

Albanian

Amharic

Ancient Greek

Arabic

Aramaic

Armenian

Assamese

Asturian

Avar

Azerbaijani

Balinese

Bashkir

Basque

Belarusian

Bengali

Bikol Central

Bulgarian

Burmese

Carpathian Rusyn

Catalan

Central Dusun

Central Kurdish

Chinese

Chinese Cantonese

Chinese Mandarin

Church Slavic

Chuvash

Czech

Danish

Dhivehi

Dutch

Egyptian

Esperanto

Estonian

Faroese

Finnish

French

Friulian

Galician

Georgian

German

Gothic

Greek

Gujarati

Hausa

Hebrew

Hindi

Hungarian

Icelandic

Indonesian

Ingrian

Ingush

Iranian Persian

Irish

Italian

Japanese

Judeo-Italian

Kannada

Kazakh

Khmer

Korean

Kyrgyz