dhikr

English

Alternative forms

• zikr

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ذِكْر (ḏikr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ðikɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ikɹ

Noun

dhikr (plural dhikrs)

1. (Islam) An Islamic prayer whereby a phrase or expression of praise is repeated continually.
   • 1958-1994, Hamilton Gibb & CF Beckingham, in The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society 2012, p. 62:

     When all had eaten and prayed the first night prayer, they began to recite their dhikr, then they began the musical recital.

   • 2001, Yann Martel, Life of Pi:

     We prayed together and we practised dhikr, the recitation of the ninety-nine revealed names of God.

Translations

(Islam) an Islamic prayer whereby a phrase or expression of praise is repeated continually

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: ذِكْر (ar) m (ḏikr)
• Azerbaijani: zikr
• Bashkir: зекер (zeker)
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Chechen: зикр (zikr)
• Hindi: ज़िक्र m (zikra), जिक्र (hi) m (jikra)
• Japanese: ズィクル, ジクル (ja)
• Kazakh: зікір (zıkır)
• Kumyk: зикир (zikir)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: zikr (ku)

• Kyrgyz: зикир (ky) (zikir)
• Malay: zikir (ms)
• Pashto: ذکر (ps) m (zikr)
• Persian: ذکر (fa) (zekr)
• Russian: зикр (ru) m (zikr)
• Swahili: dhikiri
• Tajik: зикр (zikr)
• Tatar: зекер (zeker)
• Turkish: zikir (tr)
• Turkmen: please add this translation if you can
• Urdu: ذکر (zikr)
• Uyghur: زىكىر (zikir)
• Uzbek: zikr (uz)