Rosary beads
Rosary ( only for the prayer )
Noun
rosary (plural rosaries )
Prayer beads , a string of beads used to keep track of repetitions in prayer, particularly in the Roman Catholic Marian prayer "Hail Mary " (Ave Maria )
A Roman Catholic devotion involving the repetition of a series of Marian prayers, usually 5, 15, or 20 decades of "Hail Marys ", each decade beginning with "Our Father " and ending with "Glory Be to the Father ", but sometimes including other Roman Catholic , Anglican , or Lutheran prayers.
( by extension ) A series or collection of thoughts, literary pieces, etc. intended for similar contemplation.
1655 , Jeremy Taylor , “The Golden Grove; or, A Manual of Daily Prayers and Litanies, Fitted to the Days of the Week. [ … ] : Agenda; or, Things to Be Done”, in Reginald Heber , editor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D. [ … ] , volume XV, London: Ogle, Duncan, and Co. [ … ] ; and Richard Priestley, [ … ] , published 1822 , →OCLC , section I, page 32 :Every day propound to yourself a rosary or a chaplet of good works, to present to God at night.
( historical numismatics ) A 13th-century coin minted in Europe as a counterfeit debased form of the sterling silver penny of Edward I , at first accepted as a halfpenny and then outlawed .
A rose garden .
Hyponyms
psalter ( 150-bead rosary for use with the Psalms )
Translations
Catholic prayer beads
Albanian: rruzarja
Arabic: مِسْبَحَة f ( misbaḥa ) , سُبْحَة f ( subḥa )
Armenian: վարդարան (hy) ( vardaran )
Azerbaijani: təsbeh
Cyrillic: тәсбеһ
Belarusian: ружа́нец m ( ružánjec )
Bulgarian: броеница (bg) f ( broenica )
Burmese: ပုတီး (my) ( pu.ti: )
Catalan: rosari (ca) m
Cebuano: rosaryo
Chinese:
Mandarin: 唸珠 / 念珠 (zh) ( niànzhū ) , 佛珠 ( fózhū )
Czech: růženec (cs) m
Danish: rosenkrans c
Dutch: rozenkrans (nl) m
Esperanto: rozario (eo)
Estonian: roosikrants
Finnish: ruusukko (fi) , rukousnauha (fi)
French: rosaire (fr) , chapelet (fr)
German: Rosenkranz (de) m
Alemannic German: Bëtti n
Greek: ροζάριο (el) ( rozário )
Hawaiian: lōkālio
Hungarian: rózsafüzér (hu) , olvasó (hu) , szentolvasó
Icelandic: rósakrans m
Ilocano: rosario
Indonesian: rosario (id)
Irish: paidrín m
Italian: rosario (it) m
Japanese: ロザリオ (ja) ( rozario ) , 念珠 ( ねんじゅ, nenju ) , 数珠 (ja) ( じゅず, juzu )
Kapampangan: rosaryu
Kashubian: różańc m
Korean: 로사리오 (ko) ( rosario ) , 묵주 (ko) ( mukju ) , 염주 ( yeomju )
Latin: rosarium n
Lithuanian: rožinys m , rožančius m , rožinis m
Luxembourgish: Rousekranz m
Macedonian: броеница f ( broenica )
Malay: rosario (ms)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: rosenkrans m
Nynorsk: rosenkrans m
Persian: تسبیح (fa) ( tasbih )
Polish: różaniec (pl) m
Portuguese: rosário (pt) m
Romanian: mătănii (ro) f pl
Russian: чётки (ru) f pl ( čótki ) , роза́рий (ru) m ( rozárij )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: круница f
Roman: krȕnica (sh) f
Slovak: ruženec m
Slovene: rožni venec (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: paśerje f pl
Spanish: rosario (es)
Swedish: radband (sv)
Tagalog: rosaryo
Thai: ปัด (th) ( bpàt ) , ประคำ (th) ( bprà-kam )
Turkish: tespih (tr)
Ukrainian: чо́тки f pl ( čótky ) , роза́рій m ( rozárij ) , ве́рвиця f ( vérvycja )
Vietnamese: mân côi
Welsh: llinyn paderau m