bead

Etymology
From, also “a bead for counting prayers” in , from , , , from , , , from ,.

Cognate with 🇨🇬 and, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  Prayer, later especially with a rosary.
 * 2) Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
 * 3) A small, round object.
 * 4) A small, round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire, particularly for decorative purposes.
 * 5) Various small, round solid objects.
 * 6) A small drop of water or other liquid.
 * 7) A bubble, in spirits.
 * 8) A small, round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.
 * 9)  Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
 * 10) A ridge, band, or molding.
 * 11) A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead.
 * 12)  A narrow molding with semicircular section.
 * 13)  A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe.
 * 1)  Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
 * 2) A ridge, band, or molding.
 * 3) A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead.
 * 4)  A narrow molding with semicircular section.
 * 5)  A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe.
 * 1)  A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe.
 * 1)  A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe.

Translations

 * Azerbaijani: muncuq
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chickasaw: oksop
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Gujarati: મણકો
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 비즈
 * Kumyk: инжи, минчакъ
 * Kyrgyz: мончок
 * Macedonian: монисто
 * Middle English: bede
 * Occitan: grun
 * Ottoman Turkish: بونجق
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Krall
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Altai: јинји, мончок
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: tasbihi
 * Tarifit: tadmant
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: chuỗi hạt,
 * Welsh: glain, pader


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chickasaw: oksop
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Chiricahua: yoo
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, conta
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: મણકો
 * Hungarian:, , , , , klikker
 * Italian:, perlina
 * Japanese:, 南京玉
 * Korean: 구슬
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: مووروو
 * Lipan: yoo
 * Malay:
 * Maori: pirepire
 * Middle English: bede
 * Navajo: yoo’
 * Ottoman Turkish: بونجق, مهره
 * Persian:, بلژی
 * Plains Apache: zhoo
 * Plautdietsch: Krall
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: korálka, perlička
 * Slovene: koralda,
 * Southern Altai: мончок
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: нами́стина
 * Uyghur: مونچاق
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: glain
 * Western Apache: yoo, yoo’


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: mónóg, boilgeog
 * Italian:, gocciolina
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: kropaj, kvapôčka
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Walloon:


 * Hungarian: ,
 * Slovak: muška


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:

Verb

 * 1)  To form into a bead.
 * The raindrops beaded on the car's waxed finish.
 * 1)  To apply beads to.
 * She spent the morning beading the gown.
 * 1)  To form into a bead.
 * He beaded some solder for the ends of the wire.
 * 1)  To cause beads to form on (something).

Verb

 * 1)  to hand in
 * 2)  to give (medicine to someone)
 * 3)  to submit, to present (a request)
 * 4)  to file (a petition)
 * 1)  to file (a petition)