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daven

/ˈdɑː.vən/

daven verb: to recite the Jewish liturgy; to pray.

Verb

daven (third-person singular simple present davens, present participle davening, simple past and past participle davened)

  1. (Judaism, intransitive) to recite the Jewish liturgy; to pray

daven meaning in Bengali

daven in Bengali

ইহুদি লিটার্জি আবৃত্তি করা, প্রার্থনা করা

Forms of daven

third-person singular presentdavens
present participledavening
past participledavened
pastdavened
alternative formdoven
alternative formdavan

Origin of daven

Borrowed from Yiddish דאַוונען (davnen).

Questions about daven

What does daven mean?
Daven means to recite the Jewish liturgy; to pray.
What is daven in Bengali?
Daven in Bengali is ইহুদি লিটার্জি আবৃত্তি করা, প্রার্থনা করা. See Daven meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is daven?
Daven is a verb.
How do you pronounce daven?
Daven is pronounced /ˈdɑː.vən/.
What is the past tense of daven?
The past tense of daven is davened.

Words near daven in the dictionary

  1. Dave Spart
  2. Dave Sparts
  3. daved
  4. Davekat
  5. davemaoite
  6. daven
  7. Davenant
  8. davened
  9. davening
  10. davenport
  11. Davenport Green

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Adapted from Wiktionary: daven (page history and authors); daven (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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