"tefilla" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /təˈfɪlə/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-tefilla.wav [Southern-England] Forms: tefillin [plural], tefillos [plural], tefillot [plural], tefilloth [plural], tefillah [alternative]
Rhymes: -ɪlə Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew תפילה. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:bor|he:תפילה|text=+|tree=1}} [Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Hebrew", "term" : "תפילה", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "he" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "tefilla", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="tefilla"> Borrowed from Hebrew תפילה. Head templates: {{en-noun|~|tefillin|tefillos|tefillot|tefilloth}} tefilla (countable and uncountable, plural tefillin or tefillos or tefillot or tefilloth), {{tlb|en|Judaism}} (Judaism)
  1. (countable, often in the plural) Synonym of phylactery (“either of two small leather cases containing scrolls with passages from the Torah, traditionally worn by a Jewish man (one on the arm (usually the left) and one on the forehead) and now sometimes by a woman at certain morning prayers as a reminder to obey the law as set out in the Bible”). Tags: Judaism, countable, in-plural, often Synonyms: phylactery [synonym, synonym-of] Translations (synonym of phylactery (cognates) — see also phylactery): tefilin [plural] (Azerbaijani), তেফিল্লিন (tephillin) (Bengali), тфили́н (tfilín) [plural] (Bulgarian), tfilin [plural] (Czech), tefillin [plural] (Danish), tefilin [plural] (Dutch), tefillin [plural] (Finnish), Tefillin [plural] (German), τεφιλίν (tefilín) [plural] (Greek), תפילין (tfilín) [feminine, plural] (Hebrew), tfilin (Hungarian), tefillin [plural] (Irish), tefillin [plural] (Italian), tefilin (Latvian), tefilinas [plural] (Lithuanian), tefillín [plural] (Norwegian Bokmål), tefillín [plural] (Norwegian Nynorsk), tefilin [plural] (Polish), tfilin [plural] (Polish), tefilin [plural] (Portuguese), тфили́н (tfilín) [masculine, plural] (Russian), tfilin [plural] (Slovak), tefilin [plural] (Slovene), tefillin [plural] (Swedish), திஃபிலின் (tifiliṉ) (Tamil), tefilin [plural] (Turkish), тфілі́н (tfilín) [plural] (Ukrainian), תּפֿילין (tfiln) [plural] (Yiddish)
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  2. (uncountable) Intercession, prayer; (countable) a prayer. Tags: Judaism, uncountable
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: tefillah shel rosh, tefillah shel yad

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "roman": "tefilín",
      "sense": "synonym of phylactery (cognates) — see also phylactery",
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      "roman": "tfilín",
      "sense": "synonym of phylactery (cognates) — see also phylactery",
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      "sense": "synonym of phylactery (cognates) — see also phylactery",
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      "code": "ga",
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "synonym of phylactery (cognates) — see also phylactery",
      "word": "tefilin"
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      "word": "tefilinas"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "code": "uk",
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      "code": "yi",
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      "sense": "synonym of phylactery (cognates) — see also phylactery",
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