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tarāwīḥ(pl. of tarwīḥat, 'a single rest,' rt. روح ), s.f. A form of prayer consisting of twenty or more genuflexions (according to different persuasions), performed at some period of the night in the month of Ramaẓān, after the ordinary prayers of nightfall (but, by pious persons, often repeated every morning: they are so called because the performer restsafter every four genuflexions).
Origin: Arabic