pagoda

English

The pagoda at Shitennoji in Osaka

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pəˈɡoʊ.də/

Alternative forms

• pagod, pagode (both obsolete)

Noun

pagoda (plural pagodas)

1. An Asian religious building, especially a multi-storey tower erected as a Buddhist temple.
2. An ornamental structure of that design, erected in a park or garden.
3. (historical) A unit of currency, a coin made of gold or half gold, issued by various dynasties in medieval southern India.
4. (archaic) An Indian idol.
5. A pagoda sleeve.

Derived terms

• pagoda tree

Translations

a tiered tower with multiple eaves

• Albanian: pagodë (sq)
• Arabic: بَاغُودٰ f (bāḡūdā)
• Armenian: պագոդա (hy) (pagoda)
• Asturian: pagoda f
• Azerbaijani: paqoda
• Belarusian: па́гада f (páhada)
• Bengali: প্যাগোডা (pêgōḍa)
• Bulgarian: па́года f (págoda)
• Burmese: ဘုရား (my) (bhu.ra:), စေတီ (my) (ceti)
• 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
• Galician: pagode m
• Georgian: პაგოდა (ṗagoda)
• German: Pagode (de) f
• Greek: παγόδα f (pagóda)
• Hebrew: פָּגוֹדָה
• Hindi: पगोडा (pagoḍā), बुत-कदा (but-kadā), बुत-ख़ाना m (but-xānā), देवल (hi) m (deval), मन्दिर (hi) m (mandir)
• Hungarian: pagoda (hu)
• 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 (ぶっとう, buttō), 五重の塔, 五重塔 (ごじゅうのとう, gojū no tō), 石塔 (せきとう, sekitō), 三重塔 (さんじゅうのとう, sanjū no tō), 塔婆 (とうば, tōba)
• Khmer: វត្ត (km) (vŏət)
• Korean: 탑 (ko) (tap) (塔 (ko)), 탑파 (tap'pa) (塔婆)
• Kurdish:
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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 (káung múu), ၸေႇတီႇ (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

Noun

pagoda f

1. (architecture) pagoda

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɒɡodɒ]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: pa‧go‧da

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

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Italian

Etymology

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

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

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

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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