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Five-times-a-day Islamic prayer
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salat
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The Salat is a river in southern France , a right tributary of the Garonne . It rises in nine points above the hamlet Salau in the municipality Couflens , on the slopes of Mont Rouch , central Pyrenees . The former Gascon province of Couserans is based ...
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n. (context Islam English) The prayer sessions held five times daily in Islam consisting of various postures and gestures.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Islamic ritual prayer, from Arabic salah "prayer."
WordNet
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n. the second pillar of Islam is prayer; a prescribed liturgy performed five times a day (preferably in a mosque) and oriented toward Mecca [syn: salaat , salah , salaah ]
Usage examples of salat.
Kaaba stone, the very center of the Islamic universe, to which they directed the Salat, verses from the Holy Koran said five times per day, recited from the knees.
In the next room over, Abdullah finished his own Salat, and then plugged his computer into the side of the telephone.
The same day began five miles away at Holiday Inn Express, and on this day, unlike the others, they all unrolled their prayer rugs and, as one man, said their morning Salat for what they all expected to be the last time.
Abdullah finished his own Salat, and then plugged his computer into the side of the telephone.
Holiday Inn Express, and on this day, unlike the others, they all unrolled their prayer rugs and, as one man, said their morning Salat for what they all expected to be the last time.
Some twenty years before his death, Marie Salat had come to live with M.
His mosque is not very big, and it has a congregation of one: he performs salat on his own every seventeen thousand two hundred and eighty seconds.
After a meal of roast quail with blackberry sauce and a salat of herbs, she gave him the last treatment of the evening.
Certainly this stretch of land through the slopes of the foothills was remote, but there was always a small farm within six or seven miles, and occasional villages on tributaries of the Salat and Ariege rivers.
It was time for daily prayers, the Salat, the second of Islam's Five Pillars.
By sundown we will either be with the holy hour of Salat el Maghreb or in the arms of Allah.