stupa

See also: Stupa, stupă, stupã, stupą, and stúpa

English

The main stupa of Kuthodaw Pagoda in Mandalay, Myanmar

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्तूप (stūpa). Doublet of tope.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstuːpə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːpə

Noun

stupa (plural stupas)

1. (Buddhism) A Buddhist monument used to house relics of the Buddha or others, especially dome-shaped monuments in the Indian style.
   • 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:

     He mounded so much honey on the top of the buns that they looked like miniature stupas.

   • 2023, V. V. Ganeshananthan, Brotherless Night, Viking, page 303:

     I cupped her cheeks and thought of the lotus flowers at the thresholds of Buddhist stupas, their pale petals resting in the palms of the faithful.

Synonyms

• dagoba (Sri Lankan style, archaic)

Hyponyms

• chorten, dagoba (Tibetan style); pagoda (Chinese style)

Derived terms

• ice stupa
• stupalike

Translations

Buddhist monument

• Arabic: سْتُوبَا m (stūbā)
• Burmese: ဘုရား (my) (bhu.ra:), ထူပါ (my) (htupa), စေတီ (my) (ceti)
• Buryat: субарга (subarga)
• Catalan: stupa (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 窣堵坡 (sùdǔpō), 舍利塔 (zh) (shèlìtǎ), 佛塔 (zh) (fótǎ)

• Dutch: stoepa (nl)
• Dzongkha: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: stupao
• Estonian: stuupa
• Finnish: stupa (fi)
• French: stupa (fr), stûpa
• German: Stupa (de) m or f
• Hindi: स्तूप (hi) m (stūp)
• Hungarian: sztúpa (hu)
• Italian: stupa (it) m
• Japanese: 卒塔婆 (ja) (そとば, sotoba, そとうば, sotōba)
• Kalmyk: суврһн (suvrğn)
• Khmer: ចេតិយ (km) (caetdəy)
• Korean: 탑(塔) (ko) (tap), 탑파(塔婆) (tap'pa), 스투파 (seutupa), 솔도파 (soldopa)
• Lao: ທາດ (thāt), ສະຖູບ (sa thūp), ເຈດີ (chē dī)
• Malayalam: സ്തൂപം (ml) (stūpaṁ)
• Mongolian: суврага (suvraga), ᠰᠤᠪᠤᠷᠭ
  ᠠ (suburɣ a)
• Naxi: please add this translation if you can
• Nepali: स्तूप (stūp)
• Polish: stupa (pl) f
• Portuguese: estupa f
• Romanian: chedi
• Russian: сту́па (ru) f (stúpa)
• Sanskrit: स्तूप (sa) m (stūpa)
• Sikkimese: མཆོད་རྟེན (mchod rten)
• Sinhalese: ස්තූපය (stūpaya)
• Spanish: estupa m
• Swedish: stupa (sv) c
• Tamil: தூபி (ta) (tūpi), தாது கோபுரம் (tātu kōpuram)
• Thai: เจดีย์ (th) (jee-dii), สถูป (sà-tùup), ธาตุ (th) (tâat)
• Tibetan: མཆོད་རྟེན (mchod rten)
• Tocharian B: pat
• Vietnamese: tháp (vi) (塔), chứa (vi) hài cốt (vi) vị (vi) sư (vi),

See also

• chedi
• pagoda
• wat

Etymology 2

Noun

stupa (plural stupas)

1. A stupe (medicated cloth or sponge).

Anagrams

• APTUs, Tupas, patus, pusta, sat up, sputa, tapus

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्तूप (stūpa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stu.pa/, /sty.pa/

Noun

stupa m (plural stupas)

1. (Buddhism) stupa

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• stupene

Noun

stupa n

1. definite plural of stup

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse stúpa.

Alternative forms

• stupe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²stʉːpɑ/

Verb

stupa (present tense stuper or styp, past tense stupte or staup, supine stupt or stope, past participle stupt or stopen, present participle stupande, imperative stup)

1. To dive (jump head-first)
2. To fall suddenly, fall in battle.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstʉːpɑ/

Noun

stupa n

1. definite plural of stup

References

• “stupa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

stupa

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्तूप (stūpa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstu.pa/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -upa
• Syllabification: stu‧pa

Noun

stupa f

1. (Buddhism) stupa (dome-shaped Buddhist monument, used to house relics of the Lord Buddha)

Declension

Declension of stupa

	singular	plural
nominative	stupa	stupy
genitive	stupy	stup
dative	stupie	stupom
accusative	stupę	stupy
instrumental	stupą	stupami
locative	stupie	stupach
vocative	stupo	stupy

Further reading

• “stupa”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stǫpa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stûpa/

Noun

stȕpa f (Cyrillic spelling сту̏па)

1. A mortar (hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle).
2. An application with a hollow vessel to poss cloth, such as a fulling mill.
3. A pounding-mill, stamp-mill for grain, the contrivance where corn had to be pounded in hollow blocks before the meal mill has been invented.

Declension

Declension of stupa

	singular	plural
nominative	stupa	stupe
genitive	stupe	stupa
dative	stupi	stupama
accusative	stupu	stupe
vocative	stupo	stupe
locative	stupi	stupama
instrumental	stupom	stupama

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈtupa/ [esˈt̪u.pa]
• Rhymes: -upa

Noun

stupa f (plural stupas)

1. stupa

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²stʉːpa/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Swedish stupa, from Proto-Germanic *stūpaną. Cognate of English stoop (“crouch”).

Verb

stupa (present stupar, preterite stupade or stöp, supine stupat, imperative stupa)

1. To fall (head over heels)
2. To die or fall (in battle), to be killed in action

   Synonyms: falla, dö

   Den tredje söndagen i maj är de stupades dag i Finland

   The third Sunday in May is the Day of the Fallen in Finland

3. To fall asleep, exhausted (like a fallen warrior)
4. To slope steeply.

   branta kalkstensklippor som stupar ner mot de slingrande floderna Dordogne och Vézère.

   steep limestone cliffs that fall down towards the meandering rivers Dordogne and Vézère.

Conjugation

Conjugation of stupa (weak)

	active		passive
infinitive	stupa		—
supine	stupat		—
imperative	stupa		—
imper. plural1	stupen		—
	present	past	present	past
indicative	stupar	stupade	—	—
ind. plural1	stupa	stupade	—	—
subjunctive2	stupe	stupade	—	—
present participle		stupande
past participle		stupad

¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Related terms

• framstupa
• huvudstupa
• stupa i säng
• stup
• stupfull

See also

• falla
• slutta
• stöpa
• störta

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Sanskrit स्तूप (stūpa).

Noun

stupa c

1. A stupa; a Buddhist monument.

Declension

Declension of stupa

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	stupa	stupas
	definite	stupan	stupans
plural	indefinite	stupor	stupors
	definite	stuporna	stupornas

References

• “stupa”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “stupa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “stupa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Anagrams

• putsa, pusta