bead

Mane (English)

Noun

1. Prayer, later especially with a rosary.
2. Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
3. A small, round object.
4. A small, round object.
5. A small, round object.
6. A small, round object.
7. A small, round object.
8. A small, round object.
9. A ridge, band, or molding.
10. A ridge, band, or molding.
11. A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe.

Verb

1. To form into a bead.
2. To apply beads to.
3. To form into a bead.
4. To cause beads to form on (something).

Synonyms

pearl

drop

beading

astragal

globule

beadwork

necklace

grain

droplet

💧

beads

weld bead

blob

glass bead

drip

layering

minim

nit

pea

pellet

pill

💊

prayer

rosary

seed

sequin

string

🪢

sweat

😓

weld

welded joint

welded seam

muck bar

small ball

welding seam

weld joint

fruit

single bead

hold-down strip

mound layer

bead moulding

brake bead

beaded glass

ball

beauty

bolus

bugle

collar

drib

dribble

driblet

form

gem

💎

granule

headband

jewel

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/biːd/

Etîmolojî (English)

Inherited from Middle English: bede

Cognate with holendî: gebed

Cognate with almanî: Gebet

In summary

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 Dutch gebed and bede, German Gebet.