Definition of Prayer mat

1. Noun. A small rug used by Muslims during their devotions.

Exact synonyms: Prayer Rug
Terms within: Mihrab
Generic synonyms: Carpet, Carpeting, Rug

Definition of Prayer mat

1. Noun. A small rug on which Muslims kneel to pray ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prayer Mat

praxes
praxinoscope
praxinoscopes
praxis
praxises
pray
pray in aid
pray tell
pray to the porcelain god
praya
prayed
prayer
prayer beads
prayer book
prayer books
prayer mat (current term)
prayer mats
prayer meeting
prayer rope
prayer rug
prayer rugs
prayer service
prayer shawl
prayer wheel
prayerbook
prayerbooks
prayerful
prayerfully
prayerfulness
prayerfulnesses

Literary usage of Prayer mat

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A brief concordance to the holy Bible by John Downame (1774)
"3. in feck by prayer Mat, t 44. pray for ihem thai Htb. j. 7. offered up prater s with 6. T. when ye pray, ufc mt vain l IVt. 3'. ..."

2. The Resonance of Allah: Resplendent Explanations Arising from the Nur, Allah by M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (2001)
"Since He has spread this world out as a prayer mat, you can be anywhere in this world and pray to Him, provided your state of purity (wudu\ ablution) is not ..."

3. The ʻAwārifu-l-maā̇rif, Written in the Thirteenth Century by ... Shaikh by ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad Suhrawardī (1891)
"He placeth on the prayer-mat first the lower limbs, then the upper limbs. That is— He placeth on the ground first the knee, then the hand, the forehead, ..."

4. The Tree That Fell to the West: Autobiography of a Sufi by M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (2003)
"My prayer mat was just a small piece of blanket which I spread before me to pray the maghrib, the evening prayer. While I prayed a snake appeared right in ..."

5. An American Physician in Turkey: A Narrative of Adventures in Peace and War by Clarence Douglas Ussher, Grace Higley Knapp (1917)
"Suleiman spread his coat for a prayer mat on the snow and began his noonday ... It may have been Suleiman's prayer mat that suggested it, but as soon as he ..."

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