evening prayer

English

Noun

evening prayer (plural evening prayers)

1. (Anglicanism, Methodism) The second of the two services of the Daily Office, combining the canonical hours of vespers and compline.

   Synonym: evensong (especially when the service is musical)

   Coordinate term: morning prayer

2. (religion) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see evening,‎ prayer.

   Hyponym: isha (Islam)

   • 2006, Vincent Cornell, Voices of Islam [5 Volumes], page 13:

     – – has been set at two in the morning prayer, four in the midday prayer, four in the afternoon prayer, three in the sunset prayer, and four in the evening prayer.

Translations

second of two services of the Daily Office

Welsh: hwyrol weddi, gwasanaeth hwyrol

prayer recited in the evening

Finnish: iltarukous (fi) German: Abendgebet (de) n Welsh: hwyrol weddi