prayer wheel

English

Noun

prayer wheel (plural prayer wheels)

1. (Buddhism) A rotating cylinder either inscribed with or containing prayers, mainly used by Tibetan Buddhists.

   Synonyms: mani wheel, prayer mill, praying machine

Translations

rotating cylinder containing prayers

Chinese: Mandarin: 轉經筒 / 转经筒 (zhuǎnjīngtǒng) Danish: bedemølle c Finnish: rukousmylly (fi) French: roue de prière f German: Gebetsmühle (de) f Hungarian: imamalom (hu), imakerék Japanese: マニ車 (maniguruma) Mongolian: мөргөлийн хүрд (mörgöliin xürd), хүрд (mn) (xürd) Portuguese: roda de oração f Russian: моли́твенное колесо́ n (molítvennoje kolesó) Spanish: rueda de plegaria Swedish: bönekvarn c Tibetan: མ་ནི་ཆོས་འཁོར (ma ni chos 'khor) Urdu: آلات عبادت (ur) m (ālāt ibādat)

Further reading

• prayer wheel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia