chotki

From Russian чётки (čótki, “prayer beads, rosary”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃəʊtki/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃoʊtki/

chotki (plural chotki or chotkis)

1. (Christianity) a rope of usually thirty-three, fifty or one hundred knots used in meditative prayer in the Eastern Christian tradition.

All three terms (chotki, prayer rope and komboskini) are in common usage by Orthodox Christians, though the choice of word tends to indicate one's ecclesiastic tradition: prayer rope is tradition-neutral, chotki is commonly used by those of the Slavic tradition, and komboskini is most common amongst those of the Greek tradition.

• prayer rope
• komboskini

• thicko