Meaning

2 senses
  1. A Buddhist temple in Southeast Asia, especially those in Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia.

    There are two wats near this village.

    Angkor Wat

    ватvat

  2. A kind of stew or curry eaten in Ethiopia and Eritrea.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. I'd like to visit Angkor Wat before I die.

    deIch möchte gerne Angkor Wat besuchen, bevor ich sterbe. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. I want to visit the Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia.

  3. At Wat Yanviriya, my Thai temple in Vancouver, orange-robed monks whiled away meditating long afternoons in a garden gazebo.

Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
Buddhist temple:

Origin

Borrowed from Thai วัด (wát). Borrowed from Amharic ወጥ (wäṭ).

Borrowed from Thai วัด (wát).

Borrowed from Amharic ወጥ (wäṭ).

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: wats
Singularwat
Pluralwats

regular

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

wat — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto