bead

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• /ˈbiːd/
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• [ˈbɪi̯d]
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• homophone: Bede
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• CMU ARPABET: B IY1 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English bede (“a prayer”), also “a bead for counting prayers” in a peire of bedes (literally “a pair of beads”), from Old English bedu, bed, ġebed (“a request, entreaty, prayer”), from Proto-West Germanic *bedu, *bed, *gabed, from Proto-Germanic *bedō, *bedą. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gebäd (“prayer”), Cimbrian gapéet (“prayer”), Dutch gebed and bede (“prayer”), German Gebet (“prayer”), Low German Gebett (“prayer”), Luxembourgish Gebiet (“prayer”), Vilamovian gybāt (“prayer”).

141 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Southern Altai: јинји (ǰinǰi) — rosary ball
• Southern Altai: мончок (mončok) — rosary ball
• Azerbaijani: muncuq — rosary ball
• Bulgarian: мънисто (mǎnisto) — rosary ball
• Catalan: dena — rosary ball
• Chickasaw: oksop — rosary ball
• Chinese Mandarin: 念珠 (niànzhū) — rosary ball
• Chinese Mandarin: 珠 (zhū) — rosary ball
• Dutch: kraal — rosary ball
• Esperanto: bido — rosary ball
• Finnish: helmi — rosary ball
• French: grain — rosary ball
• Galician: doa — rosary ball
• Gujarati: મણકો (maṇko) — rosary ball
• Hungarian: szem — rosary ball
• Italian: grano — rosary ball
• Japanese: ロザリオ (rozario) — rosary ball
• Korean: 비즈 (bijeu) — rosary ball
• Kumyk: инжи (inji) — rosary ball
• Kumyk: минчакъ (minçaq) — rosary ball
• Kyrgyz: мончок (moncok) — rosary ball
• Macedonian: монисто (monisto) — rosary ball
• Macedonian: монистро (monistro) — rosary ball
• Middle English: bede — rosary ball
• Occitan: grun — rosary ball
• Persian: مهره (mohre) — rosary ball
• Plautdietsch: Krall — rosary ball
• Polish: paciorek — rosary ball
• Polish: koralik — rosary ball
• Portuguese: conta — rosary ball
• Russian: би́сер (bíser) — rosary ball
• Russian: бу́сы (búsy) — rosary ball
• Russian: чётки (čótki) — rosary ball
• Slovene: jagoda — rosary ball
• Spanish: cuenta — rosary ball
• Spanish: agallón — rosary ball
• Spanish: mullo — rosary ball
• Swahili: tasbihi — rosary ball
• Tarifit: tadmant — rosary ball
• Telugu: పూస (pūsa) — rosary ball
• Turkish: boncuk — rosary ball
• Ottoman Turkish: بونجق (boncuk) — rosary ball
• Ukrainian: бісери́на (biserýna) — rosary ball
• Vietnamese: chuỗi hạt — rosary ball
• Vietnamese: tràng hạt — rosary ball
• Welsh: glain — rosary ball
• Welsh: pader — rosary ball
• Southern Altai: мончок (mončok) — small, round, pierced object
• Chiricahua: yoo — small, round, pierced object
• Lipan: yoo — small, round, pierced object
• Plains Apache: zhoo — small, round, pierced object
• Western Apache: yoo — small, round, pierced object
• Western Apache: yoo’ — small, round, pierced object
• Bulgarian: топче (topče) — small, round, pierced object
• Chickasaw: oksop — small, round, pierced object
• Chinese Mandarin: 珠子 (zhūzi) — small, round, pierced object
• Dutch: parel — small, round, pierced object
• Dutch: korrel — small, round, pierced object
• Esperanto: bido — small, round, pierced object
• Finnish: helmi — small, round, pierced object
• French: perle — small, round, pierced object
• Galician: doa — small, round, pierced object
• Galician: abelorio — small, round, pierced object
• Galician: adramán — small, round, pierced object
• German: Perle — small, round, pierced object
• Greek: χάντρα (chántra) — small, round, pierced object
• Gujarati: મણકો (maṇko) — small, round, pierced object
• Hungarian: gyöngyszem — small, round, pierced object
• Hungarian: üveggyöngy — small, round, pierced object
• Hungarian: gyöngy — small, round, pierced object
• Hungarian: szemcse — small, round, pierced object
• Hungarian: golyócska — small, round, pierced object
• Hungarian: klikker — small, round, pierced object
• Italian: grano — small, round, pierced object
• Italian: perlina — small, round, pierced object
• Japanese: ビーズ (bīzu) — small, round, pierced object
• Japanese: 南京玉 (nankindama) — small, round, pierced object
• Kaitag: духа́р (duꭓár) — small, round, pierced object
• Korean: 구슬 (guseul) — small, round, pierced object
• Central Kurdish: مووروو (mûrû) — small, round, pierced object
• Macedonian: монисто (monisto) — small, round, pierced object
• Macedonian: монистро (monistro) — small, round, pierced object
• Malay: manik — small, round, pierced object
• Māori: pirepire — small, round, pierced object
• Middle English: bede — small, round, pierced object
• Navajo: yoo’ — small, round, pierced object
• Persian: منجوق (monjuq) — small, round, pierced object
• Persian: بلژی (bolži) — small, round, pierced object
• Plautdietsch: Krall — small, round, pierced object
• Polish: koralik — small, round, pierced object
• Polish: paciorek — small, round, pierced object
• Portuguese: conta — small, round, pierced object
• Portuguese: missanga — small, round, pierced object
• Russian: бу́сина (búsina) — small, round, pierced object
• Slovak: korálka — small, round, pierced object
• Slovak: perlička — small, round, pierced object
• Slovene: koralda — small, round, pierced object
• Slovene: perla — small, round, pierced object
• Spanish: cuenta — small, round, pierced object
• Spanish: mullo — small, round, pierced object
• Spanish: abalorio — small, round, pierced object
• Spanish: rocalla — small, round, pierced object
• Spanish: gargantilla — small, round, pierced object
• Spanish: mostacilla — small, round, pierced object
• Swahili: ushanga — small, round, pierced object
• Swedish: pärla — small, round, pierced object
• Thai: ลูกปัด (lûuk-bpàt) — small, round, pierced object
• Turkish: boncuk — small, round, pierced object
• Ottoman Turkish: بونجق (boncuk) — small, round, pierced object
• Ottoman Turkish: مهره (mühre) — small, round, pierced object
• Ukrainian: нами́стина (namýstyna) — small, round, pierced object
• Uyghur: مونچاق (monchaq) — small, round, pierced object
• Welsh: glain — small, round, pierced object
• Bulgarian: капчица (kapčica) — small drop of liquid
• Chinese Mandarin: 小滴 (xiǎodī) — small drop of liquid
• Dutch: druppel — small drop of liquid
• Esperanto: guto — small drop of liquid
• Finnish: helmi — small drop of liquid
• Finnish: pisara — small drop of liquid
• French: gouttelette — small drop of liquid
• Galician: pinga — small drop of liquid
• German: Tropfen — small drop of liquid
• Greek: στάλα (stála) — small drop of liquid
• Hungarian: csepp — small drop of liquid
• Irish: mónóg — small drop of liquid
• Irish: boilgeog — small drop of liquid
• Italian: goccia — small drop of liquid
• Italian: gocciolina — small drop of liquid
• Polish: kropla — small drop of liquid
• Portuguese: gota — small drop of liquid
• Russian: ка́пля (káplja) — small drop of liquid
• Russian: ка́пелька (kápelʹka) — small drop of liquid
• Slovak: kropaj — small drop of liquid
• Slovak: kvapôčka — small drop of liquid
• Swedish: pärla — small drop of liquid
• Turkish: damla — small drop of liquid
• Walloon: gotlete — small drop of liquid
• German: Korn — front sight of a gun
• Hungarian: célgömb — front sight of a gun
• Hungarian: irányzék — front sight of a gun
• Slovak: muška — front sight of a gun