stupa

See also: stupă and ступа

English

The main stupa of Kuthodaw Pagoda in Mandalay, Myanmar

Etymology 1

From Sanskrit स्तूप (stūpa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstuːpə/
• Rhymes: -uːpə

Noun

stupa (plural stupas)

1. (Buddhism) A dome-shaped Buddhist monument, used to house relics of the Lord Buddha.
   • 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:

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

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
• French: stupa (fr) or stûpa
• German: Stupa (de) m or f
• Hindi: स्तूप (hi) m (stūp)
• Hungarian: sztúpa (hu)
• Italian: stupa m
• Japanese: 卒塔婆 (そとば, sotoba, そとうば, sotōba)
• Kalmyk: суврһн (suvrğn)
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• Khmer: ចេតិយ (km) (caetdəy)
• Korean: 탑 (ko) (tap) (塔 (ko)), 탑파 (tap'pa) (塔婆), 스투파 (seutupa), 솔도파 (soldopa)
• Lao: ທາດ (thāt), ສະຖູບ (sa thūp), ເຈດີ (chē dī)
• Malayalam: സ്തൂപം (ml) (stūpaṁ)
• Mongolian: суврага (suvraga), ᠰᠤᠪᠤᠷᠭ
  ᠠ (suburg a)
• Naxi: please add this translation if you can
• Nepali: स्तूप (stūp)
• Portuguese: estupa f
• Romanian: chedi
• Russian: сту́па (ru) f (stúpa)
• Sanskrit: स्तूप (sa) m (stūpa)
• Spanish: estupa m
• Swedish: stupa (sv) c
• Thai: เจดีย์ (th) (jee-dii), สถูป (sà-tùup), ธาตุ (th) (tâat)
• Tibetan: མཆོད་རྟེན (mchod rten)
• Vietnamese: tháp (vi) chứa (vi) hài cốt (vi) vị (vi) sư (vi), tháp (vi) (塔)

See also

• chedi
• pagoda
• wat

Etymology 2

Noun

stupa (plural stupas)

1. A stupe (medicated cloth or sponge).

Anagrams

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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• stupene

Noun

stupa n

1. definite plural of stup

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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, past participle stupt or stope, 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.

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstu.pa/

Noun

stupa f

1. (Buddhism) stupa

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

• Template:R:PWN

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stǫpa.

Noun

stȕpa f (Cyrillic spelling сту̏па)

1. mortar (hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle)

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

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Spanish

Noun

stupa f (plural stupas)

1. stupa

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Swedish

Noun

stupa c

1. a stupa; a Buddhist monument

Declension

Declension of stupa
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	stupa	stupan	stupor	stuporna
Genitive	stupas	stupans	stupors	stupornas

Verb

stupa

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

   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	—	—
	Participles
Present participle	stupande
Past participle	stupad
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Synonyms

• (die): falla, dö

Related terms

• huvudstupa
• stupa isäng
• stup
• stupfull

See also

• falla
• slutta
• stöpa
• störta

Anagrams

• putsa