pray

Etymology 1
From, from , from , (French ), from , from , , from , from.

Cognate via Indo-European of Old English, , German , Dutch. Compare, ,.

Verb

 * 1)  To direct words, thoughts, or one's attention to a deity or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc.
 * 2) To humbly beg a person for aid or their time.
 * 3)  To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
 * 4) To wish or hope strongly for a particular outcome.
 * 5)  To implore, to entreat, to request.
 * 1)  To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
 * 2) To wish or hope strongly for a particular outcome.
 * 3)  To implore, to entreat, to request.
 * 1)  To implore, to entreat, to request.
 * 1)  To implore, to entreat, to request.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: صَلَّى,
 * Aramaic:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܨܲܠܹܐ
 * Syriac: ܨܠܝ
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: angrec, ngrec, or, auredz, pricad, rog, pãlãcãrsescu, pãrãcãlsescu, ncljin
 * Azerbaijani: dua etmək
 * Basque: otoitz egin, otoiztu
 * Bau Bidayuh: bidoa
 * Belarusian: малі́цца, памалі́цца
 * Bengali: প্রার্থনা করা
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bulgarian: мо́ля се
 * Burmese:, ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏓᏙᎵᏍᏗᎭ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 祈禱
 * Hakka: 祈禱
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Coptic: ϣⲗⲏⲗ
 * Czech: modlit se
 * Danish:, tilbede
 * Dutch:
 * Eastern Bontoc: monlowaro
 * Elfdalian: biða
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: palvetama
 * Farefare: pʋ'ʋsɛ
 * Faroese: biðja
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: preâ
 * Galician: rezar
 * Georgian: ლოცვა
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌱𐌹𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽, 𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄𐍂𐍉𐌽
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: εὔχομαι
 * Greenlandic: qinuvoq
 * Hawaiian: pule
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: प्रार्थना करना
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ilocano: agkararag
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: kyssyä, rukoella
 * Irish: guigh
 * Old Irish: guidid
 * Istriot: pragà
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 祈祷する, 祈願する,
 * Judeo-Italian: אוּרַארֵי
 * Kapampangan: mangadi
 * Kazakh: дұға оқу, намаз оқу
 * Khmer:
 * Kongo: kusambila
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: diʼa kirin
 * Kyrgyz: дуба кылуу, намаз окуу
 * Ladin: prië
 * Lao: ອະທິຖານ, ສວດ, ສວດມົນ
 * Latin:, precor
 * Latvian:
 * Ligurian: pregâ
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lombard: pregà
 * Luxembourgish: bieden
 * Macedonian: моли се
 * Malay: berdoa
 * Maltese: talab
 * Maori: inoi
 * Mbyá Guaraní: nhembo'e
 * Mongolian: ,
 * Navajo: sodilzin
 * Nepali:
 * Norman: prier
 * Northern Kankanay: menlowalo
 * Northern Sami: rohkadallat
 * Northern Thai: ᩋᨵᩥᨭᩛᩣ᩠ᨶ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Old Church Slavonic: молити сѧ
 * Old East Slavic: молити сѧ
 * Old English: ġebiddan
 * Persian:, , عبادت کردن
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: urar
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: dèan ùrnaigh, guidh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: молити се
 * Roman: moliti se
 * Shan:, သူးတွင်း
 * Sherpa:
 * Slovak: modliť sa
 * Slovene: moliti se
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: bjatowaś, módliś se
 * Upper Sorbian: modlić so
 * Sotho:
 * Southern Kalinga: malluwaru
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: kusali
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: manalangin, magdasal
 * Tai Dam: ꪼꪪ꫁ꪫꪮꪙ, ꪵꪒ꪿ꪎꪷ
 * Tajik:, ибодат кардан, дуо хондан
 * Tamil: வேண்டு
 * Thai:, , สวดมนต์
 * Tibetan: ཁ་ཏོན, ཁ་ཏོན་བྱེད་པ, ཁ་འདོན་བྱེད་པ, སྨོན་ལམ་འདེབས་པ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: doga okamak
 * Ukrainian: моли́тися, помоли́тися
 * Urdu: عبادت کرنا
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek: duo qilmoq
 * Venetian: pregar
 * Vietnamese:
 * Vilamovian: baota
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: בעטן, דאַוונען
 * Zazaki: dua kerden


 * Afrikaans: smeek
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: pěkně prosit
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Georgian: ვედრება
 * German: ,
 * Icelandic:, bæna
 * Ingrian: kyssyä, rukoella
 * Japanese:, , 嘆願する
 * Jarai: kơwưh
 * Maori: minono
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, помоли́ть
 * Shan:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai:
 * Yiddish: בעטן
 * Zazaki:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: صَلَّى,
 * Armenian:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܨܲܠܹܐ
 * Bikol Central:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 祈禱
 * Hakka: 祈禱
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: modlit se
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese: biðja
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ლოცვა
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌱𐌹𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: प्रार्थना करना
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: kyssyä, rukoella
 * Irish: guigh
 * Old Irish: guidid
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: сиыну
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Ladin: prië
 * Latin: precor
 * Malay:, sembahyang
 * Maori: inoi
 * Norman: prier
 * Norwegian:
 * Old Church Slavonic: молити
 * Old English: ġebiddan
 * Persian:, عبادت کردن, نماز خواندن
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: เคารพบูชา
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * West Frisian: beade
 * Yiddish: בעטן גאָט
 * Zazaki: mehebet, nemaz kerden, niyaz


 * Albanian:
 * Basque:
 * Indonesian:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Maguindanao:
 * Maltese:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Sinhalese: යඡනවා, යදිනවා, යාච්ඤා කරනවා
 * Slovak:
 * Telugu: (1, 2, 3)
 * Turkish:

Etymology 2
Ellipsis of, , whence also.

Adverb

 * 1)  Please;