The story
- Greek · borrowed fromκομποσκοίνι“prayer rope”
- English todaykomboskini
From Greek κομποσκοίνι (komposkoíni, “prayer rope”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
komboskini
Today it means: A rope of usually 33, 50 or 100 knots, used in meditative prayer in the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic tradition, to count one's recitations of the Jesus Prayer. Full definition →
Greek κομποσκοίνι