Prayer rope
![Eastern Orthodox prayer rope of 50 knots and 5 wooden beads.](/Images/godic/202502/04/Chotki_vervitsa2538.jpg")
![Simple black prayer rope without tassel.](/Images/godic/202502/04/Eastern-Orthodox-prayer-rope_2006-06-022538.jpg")
![Greek komboskini of 100 knots.](/Images/godic/202502/04/Komboskini2538.jpg")
![St. Tikhon of Moscow dressed in his monastic habit as the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia with a white prayer rope in his left hand](/Images/godic/202502/04/Tikhon_of_Moscow2538.jpg")
A prayer rope (Greek: κομποσκοίνι - komboskini; Russian: чётки - chotki (most common term) or вервица - vervitsa (literal translation); Arabic مسبحة - misbaha; Romanian: metanii / metanier; Macedonian and Serbian: бројаница - broyanitsa; Bulgarian: броеница - broyenitsa) is a loop made up of complex knots, usually out of wool or silk. Oriental Orthodox also use it but it is referred to as the mequetaria.