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prayer wheel

prayer wheel noun: a rotating cylinder either inscribed with or containing prayers, mainly used by Tibetan Buddhists.

prayer wheel: a rotating cylinder either inscribed with or containing prayers, mainly used by Tibetan Buddhists
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Noun

prayer wheel (plural prayer wheels)

  1. A rotating cylinder either inscribed with or containing prayers, mainly used by Tibetan Buddhists.

prayer wheel meaning in Tamil and Urdu

prayer wheel in Tamil

தருமசக்கரம்

prayer wheel in Urdu

rotating cylinder containing prayers
آلات عبادت ālāt ibādat

Synonyms of prayer wheel

Forms of prayer wheel

pluralprayer wheels

Questions about prayer wheel

What does prayer wheel mean?
Prayer wheel means a rotating cylinder either inscribed with or containing prayers, mainly used by Tibetan Buddhists.
What is prayer wheel in Tamil?
Prayer wheel in Tamil is தருமசக்கரம். See Prayer wheel meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is prayer wheel?
Prayer wheel is a noun.
What is the plural of prayer wheel?
The plural of prayer wheel is prayer wheels.

Words near prayer wheel in the dictionary

  1. prayer rugs
  2. prayer shawl
  3. prayer shawls
  4. prayer square
  5. prayer squares
  6. prayer wheel
  7. prayer wheels
  8. prayer-monger
  9. prayer-mongers
  10. prayerbook
  11. prayerbooks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prayer wheel (page history and authors); prayer wheel (Tamil 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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