ablution

Etymology
From, from , and its source, , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) The act of washing something.
 * 2)  Originally, the purifying of oils and other substances by emulsification with hot water; now more generally, a thorough cleansing of a precipitate or other non-dissolved substance.
 * 3) The act of washing or cleansing the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite.
 * 4)  Washing oneself; bathing, cleaning oneself up.
 * 5)  The rinsing of the priest's hand and the sacred vessel following the Communion with, depending on rite, water or a mix of it and wine, which may then be drunk by the priest.
 * 6) The liquid used in the cleansing or ablution.
 * 7)  The ritual consumption by the deacon or priest of leftover sacred wine of host after the Communion.
 * 8)  The location or building where the showers and basins are located.
 * 1)  The rinsing of the priest's hand and the sacred vessel following the Communion with, depending on rite, water or a mix of it and wine, which may then be drunk by the priest.
 * 2) The liquid used in the cleansing or ablution.
 * 3)  The ritual consumption by the deacon or priest of leftover sacred wine of host after the Communion.
 * 4)  The location or building where the showers and basins are located.
 * 1)  The location or building where the showers and basins are located.

Translations

 * Arabic: وُضُوء, غُسْل, اِغْتِسَال
 * Bashkir: йыуыныу, тәһәрәт
 * Bulgarian: проми́вка
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: rituele wassing,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ბანა, დაბანა
 * German:, Abwaschung,
 * Greek:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: ionladh
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Latin: ablūtiō
 * Malay:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, rengjøring
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: ablusyon
 * Tibetan: ཁྲུས, ཁྲུས་གསོལ
 * Turkish:, , iğtisal


 * Arabic: وَضُوء
 * Finnish:
 * Greek: νερό του καθαρμού
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: vaskevann
 * Tagalog: ablusyon
 * Tibetan: ཁྲུས་ཆུ, ཁྲུས་ཆབ
 * Turkish: abdest suyu


 * Dutch:
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ablusjon
 * Spanish:


 * Albanian:
 * Vietnamese:, , , , , ,

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  Ritual rinsing of the priest's hand;
 * 2)  a washing, especially ritual

Usage notes

 * The various other meanings of the word are usually only used in the plural.