temple

See also Temple

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: tĕm'p(ə)l, IPA: /ˈtɛmp(ə)l/, X-SAMPA: /"tEmp(@)l/

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• Rhymes: -ɛmpəl

Etymology 1

Ryusenji temple in Osaka, Japan.

From Middle English temple, from Old English templ, from Latin templum (“shrine, temple, area for auspices”).

Noun

temple (plural temples)

1. A building for worship.

   The temple of Zeus was very large.

2. (often capitalized) The Jewish temple of Jerusalem, first built by Solomon.
3. Something regarded as holding religious presence.
4. Something of importance; something attended to.

   My body is my temple.

5. (obsolete) A body.
   • 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 1, scene 3, lines 11–14:

     For nature crescent does not grow alone

     In thews and bulks, but as this temple waxes,

     The inward service of the mind and soul

     Grows wide withal.

6. Hands held together with forefingers outstretched and touching pad to pad, with the rest of the fingers clasped.
   • 2010, James LePore, A World I Never Made, page 251:

     Again Abdullah listened intently, his eyes closed, his ten fingers forming a temple of his hands in front of him.

Synonyms

• house of worship

Related terms

• temporal
• Templar

Translations

worship place

• Albanian: tempull (sq)
• Arabic: معبد (ar) (má3bad) m, هيكل (ar) (háykal) m
• Armenian: տաճար (hy) (tač̣ar)
• Azeri: məbəd (az)
• Basque: tenplu (eu)
• Bulgarian: храм (bg) (hram) m
• Catalan: temple (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 寺廟 (cmn), 寺庙 (cmn) (sìmiào), 寺 (cmn) (sì)

• Czech: chrám (cs) m
• Danish: tempel (da) c
• Dutch: tempel (nl) m
• Esperanto: templo (eo)
• Finnish: temppeli (fi)
• French: temple (fr) m
• Georgian: ტაძარი (ka) (tadzari)
• German: Tempel (de) m
• Greek: ναός (el) (naós) m
• Gujarati: મંદિર (gu) (ma.ndir) n
• Hawaiian: heiau
• Hebrew: מִקְדָּשׁ (he) (miqdash) m
• Hindi: मन्दिर (hi) (mandir) m, मठ (hi) (maṭh) m
• Hungarian: templom (hu)
• Icelandic: musteri (is) n, hof (is) n
• Ido: templo (io)
• Indonesian: kuil (id)
• Italian: tempio (it) m
• Japanese: 神殿 (ja) (しんでん, shinden), Buddhist temple: 堂塔 (ja) (どうとう, dōtō), 寺 (ja) (てら, tera), 寺院 (ja) (じいん, jīn), (Shinto shrine) 神社 (ja) (じんじゃ, jinja)
• Jèrriais: templ'ye m
• Kannada: ದೇವಸ್ಥಾನ (kn) (devasthana)
• Kazakh: ғыйбадатһана (kk) (ğıybadathana)
• Khmer: វត្ត (km) (voat), ទេវាល័យ (km) (teivieleay), ប្រាសាទ (km) (praasaat)
• Korean: 절 (ko) (jeol), 사찰 (ko)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: په‌رستگا (ku)

• Kyrgyz: ибадаткана (ky) (ibadatkana)

• Lao: ວັດ (lo) (wad)
• Latin: templum (la)
• Latvian: templis (lv) m
• Lithuanian: šventykla (lt) f
• Macedonian: храм (mk) (hram) m
• Malay: kuil (ms)
• Malayalam: അംപലം (ml) (ambalam)
• Maltese: tempju (mt) m, maqdes (mt) m
• Mongolian: сүм (mn) (süm)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tempel (no) n

  Nynorsk: tempel (nn) n

• Old English: tempel (ang)
• Persian: کده (fa) (kade)
• Polish: świątynia (pl) f
• Portuguese: templo (pt) m
• Romani: khangeri f
• Romanian: templu (ro) n
• Russian: храм (ru) (xram) m, место богослужения (ru) (mesto bogosluženija)
• Sanskrit: देवालय (sa) (dēvālaya), मठ (sa) (maṭh) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: храм (sh) m, богомоља (sh) f

  Roman: hram (sh) m, bogomolja (sh) f

• Slovak: chrám (sk) m
• Slovene: tempelj (sl) m
• Spanish: templo (es) m
• Swahili: hekalu (sw)
• Swedish: tempel (sv) n
• Tamil: கோயில் (ta) (kōyil)
• Telugu: కోవెల (te) (kovela), ఆలయము (te) (aalayamu), గుడి (te) (gudi)
• Thai: วัด (th) (wát)
• Turkish: tapınak (tr)
• Urdu: مندر (ur) (mandir) m, معبد (ur) (maʿbad) m, مٹھ (ur) (maṭh) m
• Uyghur: يباداتھانا (ug) (ybadathana), تاۈينيديغان چاي (ug) (taüynydyghan chay)
• Vietnamese: đền (vi), thiền viện (vi)
• Welsh: teml (cy)
• Yiddish: שול (yi) (shul) f

holding the religious presence

• Finnish: temppeli (fi)

something of importance

• Finnish: temppeli (fi)

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• Indonesian: pura (id), kuil (id)
• Interlingua: templo (ia)
• Latin: aedes (la) f, templum (la) n
• Telugu: గుడి (te) (guDi)

Verb

temple (third-person singular simple present temples, present participle templing, simple past and past participle templed)

1. (transitive) To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to.

   to temple a god

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Feltham to this entry?)

Etymology 2

Temple in anatomy

From Middle English temple, from Old French temple, from Latin tempora (“the temples”), plural of tempus (“temple, head, face”) (see "temporal bone")

Noun

temple (plural temples)

1. (anatomy) The slightly flatter region, on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear.
2. (ophthalmology) Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.

Related terms

• temporal

Translations

region of skull

• Arabic: صدغ (ar) (ṣadğ) m

  Egyptian Arabic: حنطور عين (ḥanṭuur ʕén) m, صدغ (ṣadğ) m, سداغ (sedaağ) f pl

• Armenian: քունք (hy) (k'unk')
• Asturian: vidaya (ast) f
• Bulgarian: слепоочие (bg) (slepoóčie) n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 顳顬 (cmn), 颞颥 (cmn) (nièrú)

• Coptic: ⲥⲙⲁⲩ (ʔsmau, ʔsmaf) m pl
• Czech: spánek (cs) m
• Danish: tinding (da) m
• Dutch: slaap (nl) m
• Esperanto: tempio (eo)
• Finnish: ohimo (fi)
• French: tempe (fr) f
• Georgian: საფეთქელი (ka) (sap‘et‘k‘eli)
• German: Schläfe (de) f
• Greek: κρόταφος (el) (krótaphos) m
• Hebrew: רקה (he) (raka) f
• Hungarian: halánték (hu)
• Icelandic: gagnauga (is) n
• Ido: temporo (io)
• Italian: tempia (it) f
• Japanese: 蟀谷 (ja) or 顳顬 (ja) (こめかみ, komekami)
• Korean: 관자놀이 (ko) (gwanjanoli)
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: dunegge (Sallands)

• Macedonian: слепоочница (mk) (slepoóčnica) f
• Maltese: ngħas (mt) m
• Maori: rahirahinga (mi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tinning (no) m

  Nynorsk: tinning (nn) m

• Old English: tempel (ang)
• Old Norse: þunnvangi
• Ottoman Turkish: صدغ (sadg), طولون (tulun)
• Polish: skroń (pl) f
• Portuguese: têmpora (pt) f
• Romani: korrijakh f
• Romanian: tâmplă (ro)
• Russian: висок (ru) (visók) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: слепоочница (sh) f

  Roman: slepoočnica (sh) f

• Slovak: slucha (sk) f
• Slovene: sence (sl) n
• Spanish: sien (es) f
• Swedish: tinning (sv) c
• Tamil: நெற்றி (ta) (netri)
• Turkish: şakak (tr)
• ǃXóõ: ʘqʻûbe tshôe

sidepiece of spectacles

• Finnish: sanka (fi), silmälasinsanka (fi)

Etymology 3

Wikipedia

From Latin templum (“a small timber, a purlin”); compare templet and template.

Noun

temple (plural temples)

1. (weaving) A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.

Translations

contrivance used in a loom

• Burmese: နယ် (my) (nè)
• Italian: tempiale (it) m

• Japanese: 伸子 (ja) (しんし, shinshi)

External links

• temple in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• temple in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• pelmet

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Catalan

Noun

temple m (plural temples)

1. temple (building)

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French

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin templum, from Proto-Indo-European *t(e)mp-lo-s, from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”).

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /tɑ̃pl/, X-SAMPA: /tA~pl/

Noun

temple m (plural temples)

1. temple (for worship)

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin tempora, plural of tempus.

Noun

temple m (oblique plural temples, nominative singular temples, nominative plural temple)

1. (anatomy) temple

Descendants

• English: temple
• French: tempe

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Spanish

Verb

temple (infinitive templar)

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of templar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of templar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of templar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of templar.