pagoda

English

The pagoda at Shitennoji in Osaka

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): /pəˈɡoʊ.də/

• Audio (US):

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Alternative forms

• pagod, pagode (both obsolete)

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

• pagoda flower (Clerodendrum spp.)
• pagoda-like, pagodalike
• pagoda mast
• pagoda plant (Blephilia)
• pagoda tree (Styphnolobium japonicum)

Translations

a tiered tower with multiple eaves

• Albanian: pagodë (sq)
• Arabic: بَاغُودٰ f (bāḡūdā)
• Armenian: պագոդա (hy) (pagoda)
• Asturian: pagoda (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: paqoda
• Belarusian: па́гада f (páhada)
• Bengali: প্যাগোডা (pêgōḍa)
• Bulgarian: па́года f (págoda)
• Burmese: ဘုရား (my) (bhu.ra:), စေတီ (my) (ceti)
• Mon: ကျာ် (mnw), စေတဳ
• Catalan: pagoda f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 寶塔／宝塔 (zh) (bǎotǎ), 宝塔 (zh) (bǎotǎ), 塔 (zh) (tǎ)

• Czech: pagoda f
• Danish: pagode c
• Dutch: pagode (nl)
• Esperanto: pagodo
• Estonian: pagood
• Finnish: pagodi (fi)
• French: pagode (fr) f
• Friulian: pagode f
• Galician: pagode (gl) m
• Georgian: პაგოდა (ṗagoda)
• German: Pagode (de) f
• Greek: παγόδα f (pagóda)
• Hebrew: פָּגוֹדָה (he)
• Hindi: पगोडा (pagoḍā), बुत-कदा (but-kadā), बुत-ख़ाना m (but-xānā), देवल (hi) m (deval), मन्दिर (hi) m (mandir)
• Hungarian: pagoda (hu)
• Indonesian: pagoda (id)
• Italian: pagoda (it) f
• Japanese: パゴダ (pagoda), 塔 (ja) (とう, tō), 五輪の塔 (ごりんのとう, gorin no tō), 仏塔 (ja) (ぶっとう, buttō), 五重の塔, 五重塔 (ごじゅうのとう, gojū no tō), 石塔 (ja) (せきとう, sekitō), 三重塔 (さんじゅうのとう, sanjū no tō), 塔婆 (ja) (とうば, tōba)
• Khmer: វត្ត (km) (vŏət)
• Korean: 탑(塔) (ko) (tap), 탑파(塔婆) (tap'pa)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: pagoda (ku)

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• Lao: ທາດ (thāt), ເຈດີ (chē dī), ສະຖູບ (sa thūp)
• Latvian: pagoda f
• Lithuanian: pagoda f
• Macedonian: пагода f (pagoda)
• Malay: pagoda
• Marathi: पॅगोडा (pĕgoḍā)
• Mongolian: суврага (suvraga), ᠰᠤᠪᠤᠷᠭ
  ᠠ (suburg a)
• Nepali: प्यागोडा (pyāgoḍā)
• Norwegian: pagode
• Persian: پاگودا (fa) (pâgodâ), بت‌کده (bot-kade)
• Polish: pagoda (pl) f
• Portuguese: pagode (pt) m
• Romanian: pagodă (ro) f
• Russian: па́года (ru) f (págoda)
• Sanskrit: भगवत (bhagavata)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пагода f

  Roman: pagoda (sh) f

• Shan: ၵွင်းမူး (shn) (káung múu), ၸေႇတီႇ (shn) (tsèe tìi)
• Sinhalese: පැගෝඩා (pægōḍā)
• Slovak: pagoda f
• Slovene: pagoda f
• Spanish: pagoda (es) f
• Swedish: pagod (sv) c
• Tagalog: pagoda
• Tai Nüa: ᥐᥩᥒᥰᥛᥧᥰ (köangmü)
• Thai: ถะ (th) (tà), เจดีย์ (th) (jee-dii), ปรางค์ (th) (bpraang), สถูป (sà-tùup)
• Tibetan: མཆོད་རྟེན (mchod rten)
• Turkish: pagoda (tr), uzakdoğu tapınağı
• Ukrainian: па́года (uk) f (páhoda)
• Urdu: پگوڈا (pagoḍā), بت کدہ m (but-kadā), بت خانہ m (but-xānā), دیول m (deval), مندر m (mandir)
• Vietnamese: chùa (vi), chùa chiền (vi)

See also

• stupa
• wat

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Asturian

Noun

pagoda f (plural pagodes)

1. pagoda (a tiered tower with multiple eaves)

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpaɡoda]

Noun

pagoda f

1. (architecture) pagoda

Further reading

• Template:R:PSJC
• Template:R:SSJC

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɒɡodɒ]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pa‧go‧da
• Rhymes: -dɒ

Noun

pagoda (plural pagodák)

1. (architecture) pagoda

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	pagoda	pagodák
accusative	pagodát	pagodákat
dative	pagodának	pagodáknak
instrumental	pagodával	pagodákkal
causal-final	pagodáért	pagodákért
translative	pagodává	pagodákká
terminative	pagodáig	pagodákig
essive-formal	pagodaként	pagodákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	pagodában	pagodákban
superessive	pagodán	pagodákon
adessive	pagodánál	pagodáknál
illative	pagodába	pagodákba
sublative	pagodára	pagodákra
allative	pagodához	pagodákhoz
elative	pagodából	pagodákból
delative	pagodáról	pagodákról
ablative	pagodától	pagodáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	pagodáé	pagodáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	pagodáéi	pagodákéi

Possessive forms of pagoda
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	pagodám	pagodáim
2nd person sing.	pagodád	pagodáid
3rd person sing.	pagodája	pagodái
1st person plural	pagodánk	pagodáink
2nd person plural	pagodátok	pagodáitok
3rd person plural	pagodájuk	pagodáik

Derived terms

• pagodás

 

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

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Indonesian

pagoda

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: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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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

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Latvian

Noun

pagoda f (4th declension)

1. (architecture) pagoda

Declension

Declension of pagoda (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	pagoda	pagodas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	pagodu	pagodas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	pagodas	pagodu
dative (datīvs)	pagodai	pagodām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	pagodu	pagodām
locative (lokatīvs)	pagodā	pagodās
vocative (vokatīvs)	pagoda	pagodas

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Lithuanian

Noun

pagoda f (plural pagodos)

1. pagoda

Declension

Declension of pagoda

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	pagoda	pagodos
genitive (kilmininkas)	pagodos	pagodų
dative (naudininkas)	pagodai	pagodoms
accusative (galininkas)	pagodą	pagodas
instrumental (įnagininkas)	pagoda	pagodomis
locative (vietininkas)	pagodoje	pagodose
vocative (šauksmininkas)	pagoda	pagodos

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈɡɔ.da/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔda
• Syllabification: pa‧go‧da

Noun

pagoda f

1. pagoda

Declension

Declension of pagoda

	singular	plural
nominative	pagoda	pagody
genitive	pagody	pagod
dative	pagodzie	pagodom
accusative	pagodę	pagody
instrumental	pagodą	pagodami
locative	pagodzie	pagodach
vocative	pagodo	pagody

Derived terms

• pagodowy

 

Further reading

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

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pàgoda f (Cyrillic spelling па̀года)

1. (architecture) pagoda

Declension

Declension of pagoda

	singular	plural
nominative	pagoda	pagode
genitive	pagode	pagoda
dative	pagodi	pagodama
accusative	pagodu	pagode
vocative	pagodo	pagode
locative	pagodi	pagodama
instrumental	pagodom	pagodama

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Spanish

Noun

pagoda f (plural pagodas)

1. pagoda

Further reading

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