puja

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See also: pujá, pujà, and pūjā

English

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Etymology

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From Sanskrit पूजा (pūjā, reverence or worship).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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puja (countable and uncountable, plural pujas)

  1. A religious ritual performed in South Asia as an act of worship. [from 17th c.]
    • 1879, Frances Maria Milman, Memoir of the Right Rev. Robert Milman, page 79:
      The Grunth, the holy book of the Sikhs, seems to be becoming an object of idolatrous worship. They do puja to it, and carry it in procession daily.
    • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 122:
      ‘Godbole's pujah did it,’ cried the Englishman.
    • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 43:
      The priest had performed the puja and tied a string around his father's silk purse to make sure that the Rana didn't spend even a copper coin while he was a guest of Merta.
    • 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 18:
      Deeming the tank ‘polluted’ and its water unfit for consumption, a puja ceremony was performed by Brahmin men to ‘purify’ the reservoir.
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Anagrams

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Catalan

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Deverbal from pujar.

Noun

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puja f (plural puges)

  1. ascent, rise, gain

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Sanskrit पूजा (pūjā, reverence; worship).

Noun

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puja f (plural puges)

  1. (religion) puja

Etymology 3

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Verb

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puja

  1. inflection of pujar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Malay puja, from Sanskrit पूजा (pūjā). Doublet of puji.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pu.d͡ʒa/
  • Hyphenation: pu‧ja

Noun

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puja

  1. An act of worship.

Derived terms

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Further reading

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Mauritian Creole

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Etymology

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From Hindi पूजा (pūjā).

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Noun

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puja

  1. (Hinduism) a religious ritual performed as an act of worship.

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Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpuxa/ [ˈpu.xa]
  • Rhymes: -uxa
  • Syllabification: pu‧ja

Etymology 1

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Deverbal from pujar.

Noun

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puja f (plural pujas)

  1. bid
  2. struggle
    pujas de poderpower struggles

Etymology 2

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Verb

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puja

  1. inflection of pujar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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