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 Ramazan, after the ordinary prayers of nightfall (but, by pious persons, often repeated every morning: they are so called because the performer rests after every four genuflexions)

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 Ramazan, after the ordinary prayers of nightfall (but, by pious persons, often repeated every morning: they are so called because the performer rests after every four genuflexions)