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Rosary beads
Pronunciation
Noun
rosary (plural rosaries)
- A series of prayers, usually made up of five, fifteen, or twenty decades of Hail Marys, each decade beginning with Our Father and ending with a Glory Be to the Father, sometimes including other prayers used in Roman Catholicism, and the Anglican, Lutheran, and Old Catholic churches.
- A string of beads used in counting the prayers said in a rosary.
- (Should we delete(+) this sense?) A string of beads used in praying by members of some religions or denominations other than Roman Catholicism such as the Anglican Church
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Translations
series of prayers
- Arabic: مسبحة (ar) (mísbaḥa) f, سبحة (ar) (súbḥa) f
- Egyptian Arabic: سبحة (sebḥa) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 玫瑰經 (cmn), 玫瑰经 (cmn) (méiguījīng)
- Esperanto: rozario (eo)
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Catholic prayer beads
- Albanian: rruzarja
- Arabic: مسبحة (ar) (mísbaḥa) f, سبحة (ar) (súbḥa) f
- Azeri: təsbeh (az)
- Cyrillic: тәсбеһ (az)
- Belarusian: ружанец (be) (rúžanjec) m
- Catalan: rosari (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 唸珠 (cmn), 念珠 (cmn) (niànzhū), 佛珠 (cmn) (fózhū)
- Czech: růženec (cs) m
- Danish: bedekrans (da)
- Dutch: rozenkrans (nl) m
- Finnish: ruusukko (fi), rukousnauha (fi)
- French: rosaire (fr), chapelet (fr)
- German: Rosenkranz (de) m
- Greek: ροζάριο (el) (rozário)
- Hungarian: rózsafüzér (hu)
- Italian: rosario (it) m
- Japanese: ロザリオ (ja) (rozario), 念珠 (ja) (ねんじゅ, nenju), 数珠 (ja) (じゅず, juzu)
- Korean: 로사리오 (ko) (rojario), 묵주 (ko) (mukju) (默珠 (ko))
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non-Catholic prayer beads
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- Russian: чётки (ru) (čótki) f pl
- Serbo-Croatian: brojanica f, čislo n
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