monastery

English

Meteora Monastery in Greece

Alternative forms

• monasterie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English monasterie, from Old French monastere, from Latin monastērium, from Ancient Greek μοναστήριον (monastḗrion, “hermit's cell”), from μόνος (mónos, “alone”). Doublet of minster.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒnəstɹi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑnəstɛɹi/, /ˈmɑnəstəɹi/

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Noun

monastery (plural monasteries)

1. A residence for monks or others who have taken religious vows.

Hyponyms

• ribat (Sufi)

Coordinate terms

• (female monastery): nunnery, convent, ribat (Islamic)

Derived terms

• monastery cheese

Related terms

• monasterial
• monastic
• monasticism

Translations

building for monks

• Albanian: manastir (sq) m
• Arabic: دَيْر‎ m (dayr)

  Egyptian Arabic: دير‎ m (dēr)

  South Levantine Arabic: دير‎ m (dēr)

• Aramaic: דירא‎ f (dayrā, dayro)

  Syriac: ܕܝܪܐ‎ f (dayrā, dayro)

• Armenian: վանք (hy) (vankʿ)
• Asturian: monasteriu m
• Azerbaijani: monastır
• Basque: monasterio (eu)
• Bavarian: Klosta
• Belarusian: манасты́р m (manastýr)
• Bengali: মঠ (moṭh), আশ্রম (asrom), মন্দির (bn) (mondir)
• Bulgarian: манасти́р (bg) m (manastír)
• Burmese: ဘုန်းကြီးကျောင်း (my) (bhun:kri:kyaung:)
• Catalan: monestir (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 修道院 (zh) (xiūdàoyuàn), 僧院 (zh) (sēngyuàn), 寺院 (zh) (sìyuàn) (Buddhist)

• Czech: klášter (cs) m, monastýr m
• Danish: kloster (da) n
• Dutch: klooster (nl) n
• Erzya: ськамонкудо (śkamonkudo)
• Esperanto: monaĥejo
• Estonian: klooster (et)
• Extremaduran: monastériu
• Faroese: kleystur n
• Finnish: luostari (fi)
• French: monastère (fr) m
• Friulian: munistîr m
• Galician: mosteiro (gl) m
• Georgian: მონასტერი (monasṭeri)
• German: Kloster (de) n
• Greek: μονή (el) f (moní)
• Hebrew: מִנְזָר‎ (he) m (minzár)
• Hindi: मठ (hi) m (maṭh), मन्दिर (hi) m (mandir)
• Hungarian: kolostor (hu)
• Icelandic: klaustur (is) n
• Indonesian: biara (id), wihara (id) (Buddhism)
• Irish: mainistir (ga) f
• Italian: monastero (it) m, certosa (it) f
• Japanese: 修道院 (ja) (しゅうどういん, shūdōin), 僧院 (ja) (そういん, sōin)
• Kazakh: монастырь (monastyr), ғибадатхана (kk) (ğibadatxana)
• Khmer: វត្ត (km) (vŏət)
• Korean: 수도원(修道院) (ko) (sudowon), 승원(僧院) (ko) (seung'won)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: xilwet (ku) f, peristgeh (ku) f, pîrozgeh (ku) f, dêr (ku)

• Kyrgyz: монастырь (monastırʹ)
• Lao: ວັດ (lo) (wat)
• Latin: monastērium n
• Latvian: klosteris m
• Lithuanian: vienuolynas (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Klouschter n
• Macedonian: манастир m (manastir)
• Malay: biara
• Malayalam: ആശ്രമം (ml) (āśramaṁ)
• Maori: whare monaki
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хийд (mn) (xiid), хүрээ (mn) (xüree)

• Norman: monastéthe m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kloster (no) n

  Nynorsk: kloster n

• Occitan: monastièr (oc) m
• Old English: mynster
• Pashto: خانقا‎ (ps) f (xānaqã)
• Persian: خانقاه‎ (fa) (xânqâh), دیر‎ (fa) (deyr, dayr)

  Middle Persian: mānestān

• Polish: klasztor (pl) m, monaster (pl) m
• Portuguese: mosteiro (pt) m, monastério (pt) m
• Romanian: mânăstire (ro) f, mănăstire (ro) f
• Romansch: claustra f, clostra
• Russian: монасты́рь (ru) m (monastýrʹ)
• Sanskrit: मठ (sa) m (maṭha)
• Scottish Gaelic: manachainn f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ма̏настӣр m, са̏моста̄н m

  Roman: mȁnastīr (sh) m, sȁmostān (sh) m

• Slovak: kláštor (sk) m, monastier m
• Slovene: samostan (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kloštaŕ m

  Upper Sorbian: klóšter m

• Spanish: monasterio (es) m
• Swahili: monasteri
• Swedish: kloster (sv) n
• Tagalog: bahay-pari
• Tajik: дайр (dayr)
• Thai: วัด (th) (wát), อาราม (th) (aa-raam)
• Tibetan: དགོམ་པ (dgom pa)
• Tocharian B: tsāro, sānk
• Turkish: manastır (tr), keşişhane (tr)
• Turkmen: monastyr
• Ukrainian: монасти́р m (monastýr)
• Urdu: خانقاہ‎ f (xānqāh), مٹھ‎ m (maṭh), مندر‎ m (mandir), تکیہ‎ m (takiya)
• Uzbek: monastir (uz)
• Vietnamese: tu viện (vi) (修院), tự viện (vi) (寺院)
• Welsh: mynachlog f

See also

• abbey
• cloister
• convent
• friary
• minster

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