dhikr

English

Alternative forms

zikr

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ذِكْر (ḏikr).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ðikɹ/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -ikɹ

Noun

dhikr (plural dhikrs)

(Islam) An Islamic prayer whereby a phrase or expression of praise is repeated continually.
- 1958-1994, Hamilton Gibb & CF Beckingham, in The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society 2012, p. 62:
  When all had eaten and prayed the first night prayer, they began to recite their dhikr, then they began the musical recital.
- 2001, Yann Martel, Life of Pi:
  We prayed together and we practised dhikr, the recitation of the ninety-nine revealed names of God.

Translations

(Islam) an Islamic prayer whereby a phrase or expression of praise is repeated continually

Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: ذِكْر (ar) m (ḏikr)
Azerbaijani: zikr
Bashkir: зекер (zeker)
Bengali: please add this translation if you can
Chechen: зикр (zikr)
Hindi: ज़िक्र m (zikra), जिक्र (hi) m (jikra)
Japanese: ズィクル, ジクル (ja)
Kannada: ಜಿಕ್ರ್ (jikr)
Kazakh: зікір (zıkır)
Kumyk: зикир (zikir)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: zikr (ku)
Kyrgyz: зикир (ky) (zikir)
Malay: zikir (ms)
Malayalam: ജിക്ര് (jikṟ), ജിക്ര് (jikrŭ)
Pashto: ذکر (ps) m (zikr)
Persian: ذکر (fa) (zekr)
Russian: зикр (ru) m (zikr)
Swahili: dhikiri
Tajik: зикр (zikr)
Tamil: ஜிக்ர் (jikr)
Tatar: зекер (zeker)
Telugu: జిక్ర్ (jikr)
Turkish: zikir (tr)
Turkmen: please add this translation if you can
Urdu: ذکر (zikr)
Uyghur: زىكىر (zikir)
Uzbek: zikr (uz)

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