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litany

form of prayer used in services and processions
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litany

Summary

litany is a genre of piyyut[1]. litany draws 398 Wikipedia views per month (genre_of_piyyut category, ranking #1 of 3).[2]

Key Facts

  • litany's instance of is recorded as genre of piyyut[3].
  • litany is a type of prayer[4].
  • litany's Commons category is recorded as Litany[5].
  • litany's described by source is recorded as Riemann's Music Dictionary[6].
  • litany's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[7].
  • litany's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • litany's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[9].
  • litany's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[10].
  • litany's different from is recorded as Litania[11].

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Definition and Type

litany's instance of is recorded as genre of piyyut[3]. litany is a type of prayer[4].

Why It Matters

litany draws 398 Wikipedia views per month (genre_of_piyyut category, ranking #1 of 3).[2] litany has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → genre of piyyut
    Different from → Litania
    Aliases → —
    Instance of → —
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 29821, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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