verbal noun of صَلَّى (ṣallā) (form II) · prayer · salat, namaz
çekim: çoğul صَلَوَات · tamlayan صَلَاةٍ
köken: Normalized spelling of earlier صَلَوٰة (ṣalāh), from Classical Syriac ܨܠܘܬ (ṣəlōṯ), whence the denominal root ص ل و (ṣ l w). It is also thought to be derived from the root و ص ل (w ṣ l). Compare Ugaritic 𐎕𐎍𐎚 (ṣlt). Compare Biblical Hebrew צֶלָה (ṣélā).
köken: From Arabic دُعَاء (duʕāʔ, “prayer”). Cognate with Kazakh дұға (dūğa), Kyrgyz дуба (duba), Uzbek duo, Turkmen doga, Turkish dua (“prayer”), etc.
plea · a tax that was presented to lower-level governments as a petition for a lump sum; raising the tax was left to the lower-level governments · a prayer
çekim: çoğul beden
köken: From Middle Dutch bede, from Old Dutch beda. See the verb bidden.
köken: Inherited from Old Ruthenian моли́тва (molítva, “prayer”), from Old East Slavic молитва (molitva, “prayer”), from Proto-Slavic *modlitva. By surface analysis, моли́ти (molýty) + -тва (-tva).
From Old Swedish bø̄n, from Old Norse bǿn, bœn, bón (whence English boon), from Proto-Germanic *bōniz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to speak, to say”). Cognate with Danish bøn, Old English bēn.