Dictionary Definition
pray
Verb
1 address God; say a prayer
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
preien < preier, (French prier) < precari, from prex, precis, “a prayer, a request”; akin to Sanskrit prach “to ask”, Old English frignan, fricgan, German fragen. Confer deprecate, imprecate, precarious.Verb
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
to petition a higher being
to humbly beg for aid
to talk to God
- Arabic:
- Catalan: resar, pregar
- Chinese: 祈祷 (qídǎo)
- Czech: modlit se
- Danish: bede
- Dutch: bidden
- Finnish: rukoilla
- French: prier
- Georgian: ლოცვა (lotsva)
- German: beten
- Hungarian: imádkozik
- Italian: pregare
- Japanese: 祈る
- Korean: 빌다 (bilda)
- Portuguese: rezar, orar
- Russian: молиться (molít’s’a)
- Slovene: moliti
- Spanish: rogar
- Swedish: bedja
- Telugu: ప్రార్థించు (praarthimchu)
- Thai: (kaoróp boochaa)
- Yiddish: בעטן גאָט (betn got)
- Albanian: te lutesh
- trreq Armenian
- Basque: otoitz egin
- Bulgarian: казвам молитва
- trreq Burmese
- ttbc Chinese: 祈祷 (qídǎo), 祷告 (dǎogào)
- Croatian: moliti
- Hebrew: להתפלל
- trreq Hindi
- trreq Icelandic
- ttbc Indonesian: berdoa
- Latin: orare
- Latvian: skaitīt lūgšanu
- Lithuanian: melstis
- Maltese: titlob
- trreq Maori
- trreq Mongolian
- trreq Norwegian
- trreq Old English
- Persian: عبادت کردن
- ttbc Romanian: a (te) ruga
- trreq Sanskrit
- Serbian: молити
- ttbc Slovak: modlitba
- ttbc Spanish: rezar, orar
- trreq Tamil
- ttbc Telugu: ప్రార్థించు (praarthimchu) (1, 2, 3)
- Turkish: dua etmek
- trreq Urdu
- trreq Vietnamese
- Welsh: gweddïo
Extensive Definition
Pray may refer to:
- Prayer, an active effort to communicate with a deity or spirit
- Pray (BI), a comune (municipality) in the Province of Biella in the Italian region Piedmont
- Pray (2005 film), a film produced by Satoshi Fukushima
In music:
- Pray (Crematory album), 2008 gothic, industrial & death metal album by Crematory
- Pray (Rebecca St. James album), 1998 Christian pop and rock album by Rebecca St. James
- Pray (Solstice album), 1995 death metal album by Solstice
- "Pray" (Take That song), a song by Take That
- "Pray" (Tina Cousins song), a song by Tina Cousins
- "Pray", a 2006 song by Vanilla Ninja from the album Love is War
- "Pray", a 1991 song by MC Hammer
- "Pray", a song by DJ Bobo
- Pray (single), the fifth single created by Tomoko Kawase under the name of Tommy Heavenly
See also
pray in French: Pray (homonymie)
pray in Dutch: Pray
pray in Japanese: プレイ
pray in Polish: Pray
pray in Volapük: Pray
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
I beg you, adjure, appeal, appeal to, apply to,
ask, be good enough,
beg, beseech, brace, call for help, call on,
call upon, circulate a petition, clamor for, commune with God,
conjure, crave, cry for, cry on, cry to,
do, entreat, give thanks, have the
goodness, if you please, impetrate, implore, importune, imprecate, invoke, kneel to, make
supplication, memorialize, obtest, offer a prayer, petition, plead, plead for, plead with,
please, pray do, pray
over, prefer a petition, prithee, recite the rosary,
request, return thanks,
run to, say grace, sign a petition, solicit, sue, supplicate, will
you