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Definitions and meaning of pagoda

pagoda

Alternative forms

• pagod, pagode (both obsolete)

Etymology

From Portuguese pagode, which is via Malayalam പകോതി (pakōti) from Sanskrit भगवती (bhagavatī, name of a goddess).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /pəˈɡoʊ.də/

Noun

pagoda (plural pagodas)

1. A religious building in South and Southeast Asia, especially a multi-storey tower erected as a Hindu or Buddhist temple. [from 16th c.]
2. (now rare, usually in form pagod) An image or carving of a god in South and Southeast Asia; an idol. [from 16th c.]
3. (now historical) A unit of currency, a coin made of gold or half gold, issued by various dynasties in medieval southern India. [from 16th c.]
   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 240:

     I, in about two hours, notwithstanding the utmost caution, found myself minus upwards of six hundred pagodas […] .

4. An ornamental structure imitating the design of the religious building, erected in a park or garden. [from 18th c.]
5. (rare) A pagoda sleeve. [from 19th c.]

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• stupa
• wat

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈɡoda/, [paˈɣ̞o.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -oda
• Hyphenation: pa‧go‧da

Noun

pagoda f (plural pagodes)

1. pagoda (a tiered tower with multiple eaves)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpaɡoda]

Noun

pagoda f

1. (architecture) pagoda

Declension

Further reading

• pagoda in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• pagoda in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɒɡodɒ]
• Hyphenation: pa‧go‧da
• Rhymes: -dɒ

Noun

pagoda (plural pagodák)

1. (architecture) pagoda

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• pagoda in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology

From Portuguese pagode, which is via Tamil, from Sanskrit भगवती (bhagavatī, name of a goddess) or भागवत (bhāgavata, “follower of Bhagavatī”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [paˈɡod̪a]
• Hyphenation: pa‧go‧da

Noun

pagoda (plural pagoda-pagoda, first-person possessive pagodaku, second-person possessive pagodamu, third-person possessive pagodanya)

1. pagoda: a religious building in South and Southeast Asia, especially a multi-storey tower erected as a Hindu or Buddhist temple.

See also

• meru

Further reading

• “pagoda” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

From Portuguese pagode, which is via Tamil from Sanskrit भगवती (Bhagavatī, name of a goddess) or भागवत (Bhāgavata, “follower of Bhagavatī”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈɡɔ.da/
• Rhymes: -ɔda
• Hyphenation: pa‧gò‧da

Noun

pagoda f (plural pagode)

1. (architecture) pagoda

Latvian

Pronunciation

Noun

pagoda f (4th declension)

1. (architecture) pagoda

Declension

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

Noun

pagoda f (plural pagodos)

1. pagoda

Declension

Polish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈɡɔ.da/
• Rhymes: -ɔda
• Syllabification: pa‧go‧da

Noun

pagoda f (related adjective pagodowy)

1. pagoda

Declension

Further reading

• pagoda in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pagoda in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pǎɡoda/
• Hyphenation: pa‧go‧da

Noun

pàgoda f (Cyrillic spelling па̀года)

1. (architecture) pagoda

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈɡoda/ [paˈɣ̞o.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -oda
• Syllabification: pa‧go‧da

Noun

pagoda f (plural pagodas)

1. pagoda

Further reading

• “pagoda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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