prostration

reverential or submissive posture, used as a body gesture in many religions
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prostration

Summary

prostration is a posture[1]. prostration draws 382 Wikipedia views per month (posture category, ranking #6 of 33).[2]

Key Facts

  • prostration's image is recorded as Minister prostrates at the start of United Methodist Good Friday liturgy.jpg[3].
  • prostration's instance of is recorded as posture[4].
  • prostration's Commons category is recorded as Prostrations[5].
  • prostration's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02pcjbt[6].
  • prostration's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/prostration[7].
  • prostration's different from is recorded as prostate[8].
  • prostration's different from is recorded as dogeza[9].
  • prostration's different from is recorded as kneeling[10].
  • prostration's Quora topic ID is recorded as Prostration[11].
  • prostration's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as prostration[12].
  • prostration's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2776896416[13].
  • prostration's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2910920189[14].
  • prostration's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 00341935-n[15].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for prostration include Al-Sajdah[16], a surah[17].

Why It Matters

prostration draws 382 Wikipedia views per month (posture category, ranking #6 of 33).[2] prostration has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] prostration is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Entities named for prostration include Al-Sajdah[16], a surah[17].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [16] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [17] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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