pagoda
A tall building in an Indian, Burmese, or Thai style erected at Hindu or Buddhist…A tall building in an Indian, Burmese, or Thai style erected at Hindu or Buddhist temples in South and Southeast Asia, a stupa surmounted with a high point.
» That's a pagoda.
Das ist eine Pagode.
Это пагода.
Це пагода.
Meaning
4 senses(Hinduism, uncommon)A tall building in an Indian, Burmese, or Thai style erected at Hindu or Buddhist temples in South and Southeast Asia, a stupa surmounted with a high point.
A multi-storey tower in a Chinese style used in various contexts across East Asia and Nepal, usually with upturned curving roofs above each storey.
(historical)A unit of currency, a coin made of gold or half gold, issued by various dynasties and colonial powers in southern India.
(Hinduism, obsolete)A Hindu temple.
- an Asian temple; usually a pyramidal tower with an upward curving roof
Examples
8 sentencesThat's a pagoda.
Це пагода.
ruЭто пагода.
deDas ist eine Pagode.
There are a lot of pagodas here.
ruЗдесь много пагод.
They saw several pagodas while touring temples.
That is a pagoda.
ruЭто пагода.
deDas ist eine Pagode.
The pagoda's on fire.
ruПагода горит.
Translations
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Origin
From Portuguese pagode (“Hindu temple, Hindu idol, pagoda coin”), from any of various DravFrom Portuguese pagode (“Hindu temple, Hindu idol, pagoda coin”), from any of various Dravidian languages' words of respectful address to Hindu gods and idols and their temples, including Malayalam പകോതി (pakōti, “Durga temple”), Kannada, and Tamil பகவதி (pakavati, “Durga, Parvati”), possibly corrupted under the influence of Portuguese pagão (“pagan”), all ultimately from Sanskrit भगवती (bhagavatī, “Holy One, used for goddesses”). Previously but mistakenly connected with various other languages from Persia to China.
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