تسبیح

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَسْبِيح (tasbīḥ, praise).

Noun

تسبیح • (tesbih) (plural تسبیحات (tesbihat))

  1. (Islam) tasbih, a litany of praise to God that involves the repetitive utterances of short sentences
  2. (by extension) misbaha, a set of Islamic prayer beads used by Muslims in reciting the tasbih

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: tespih
  • Albanian: tespihe
  • Armenian: թզբեխ (tʻzbex)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: тѐспих
    Latin script: tèspih

Further reading

Persian

تسبیح

Alternative forms

  • تزبی (tazbē) (dialectal, Kabuli)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَسْبِيح (tasbīḥ).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? tasbīh
Dari reading? tasbīh
Iranian reading? tasbih
Tajik reading? tasbih

Noun

تسبیح • (tasbih) (plural تسبیح‌ها)

  1. prayer beads, rosary

Descendants