komboskini

From Greek κομποσκοίνι (komposkoíni, “prayer rope”).

komboskini (plural komboskini)

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

• prayer rope
• chotki

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.