броеница — meaning in English
broenitsa
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English meaning
Senses
броеница is used for these senses in English:
- chaplet (archaic) A string (of beads), especially when making up five decades of the rosary.
- komboskini (Christianity) A rope of usually 33, 50 or 100 knots, used in meditative prayer in the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic tradition, to count one's recitations of the Jesus Prayer.
- prayer beads A string of beads used by members of various religions to count prayers, chants, or devotions.
- rosary Prayer beads, a string of beads used to keep track of repetitions in prayer, particularly of the Roman Catholic Marian prayer "Hail Mary" (Ave Maria).
chaplet — full definition
- noun A garland or circlet for the head.
- noun A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring.
- noun A string (of beads), especially when making up five decades of the rosary.
- noun A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads.
rosary — full definition
- noun A string of beads used, especially by Catholics, to count prayers as they are recited.
- noun The set of prayers recited using such beads.