onion dome

English

Noun

Onion domes on a Russian church

onion dome (plural onion domes)

1. (architecture) An onion-shaped dome, characteristic of august buildings in Moghul and Russian architecture
   • 1993, Leland M. Roth, Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning, page 523:

     an onion dome may have a shape that is somewhat more than a half sphere and may be pointed at the top

   • 2001, Carol Strickland, Amy Handy, Patty Brown, The Annotated Arch: A Crash Course in the History of Architecture, page 36:

     The characteristic bulging onion dome, which is a signature of Russian [church] architecture, came into being to shed heavy snow.

Derived terms

• onion-domed

Translations

onion-shaped dome

• Danish: løgkuppel c
• Dutch: uikoepel m
• Finnish: sipulikupoli (fi)
• French: clocher à bulbe m
• German: Zwiebelturm (de) m
• Hungarian: hagymakupola (hu)
• Icelandic: næpa (is) f, laukturn m
• Macedonian: кромидеста купола f (kromidesta kupola)
• Polish: cebula (pl)
• Portuguese: cúpula bulbosa f
• Russian: луковицео́бразный ку́пол m (lukoviceóbraznyj kúpol)
• Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: cúpula acebollada f
• Swedish: lökkupol (sv)
• Thai: โดมหัวหอม (dohm hŭa hŏm)