Meaning of प्रार्थना in English

See Pry.
To make request with earnestness or zeal, as for something desired; to make entreaty or supplication; to offer prayer to a deity or divine being as a religious act; specifically, to address the Supreme Being with adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving.
To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech.
To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
To effect or accomplish by praying; as, to pray a soul out of purgatory.
One who prays; a supplicant.
The act of praying, or of asking a favor; earnest request or entreaty; hence, a petition or memorial addressed to a court or a legislative body.
The act of addressing supplication to a divinity, especially to the true God; the offering of adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving to the Supreme Being; as, public prayer; secret prayer.
The form of words used in praying; a formula of supplication; an expressed petition; especially, a supplication addressed to God; as, a written or extemporaneous prayer; to repeat one's prayers.
of Pray
a. & n. from Pray, v.
of Solicit
The act of supplicating; humble and earnest prayer, as in worship.
A humble petition; an earnest request; an entreaty.
A religious solemnity observed in consequence of some military success, and also, in times of distress and danger, to avert the anger of the gods.
A petition; esp., a written one, with a certificate that the conditions have been complied with.