Prayer-book

Definition

prayer /preǝ(r)/ n ၁။ (က) [C] ~ (for sth) ဆုေတာင္းျခင္း။ say one's prayers ❍ a prayer for forgiveness/ rain/ success ❍ He arrived, as if in answer to her prayers. (ခ) [C] ဘုရားရိွခိုး။ prayers he had learnt as a child. See also THE LORD'S PRAYER (ဂ) [U] ရိွခိုးျခင္း။ They knelt in prayer. ❍ She believed in the power of prayer. ၂။ prayers [pl] (ပတၳနာ) စည္းေဝး။ have family/ morning/ evening/ daily prayers. ၃။ [C usu sing ] ေမွ်ာ္ကိုးခ်က္။ ဆုေတာင္းပတၳနာ။ My one prayer is that he will walk again. ❏ not to have a prayer (of doing sth) [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္မရိွ။ They haven't got a prayer of winning. ❏ prayer-book n (က) ဆုေတာင္းပတၳနာက်မ္း။ (ခ) the Prayer Book (also the Book of Common Prayer ) အဂၤလန္ ခရစ္ယာန္အသင္းေတာ္၏ ဆုေတာင္းပတၳနာက်မ္း။ ❏ prayer- mat n အစၥလာမ္ဘာသာဝင္တို႔ ဘုရား ရိွခိုးရာ၌ သံုးေသာ ေကာ္ေဇာငယ္။

Examples

1. [prayer for] : A prayer for peace
2. [say a prayer] : He said a prayer for their safety.
3. [say your prayers] : I go to Chapel every Sunday and I say my prayers.
4. He was a firm believer in the power of prayer.
5. [in prayer] : A group of Christians knelt in prayer.
6. [daily/morning/evening prayers] : He reads the Koran and attends daily prayers.
7. [an answer to someone’s prayer] : The job seemed like the answer to her prayers.