different between chedi vs stupa

English

Etymology

From Thai ?????? (jee-dii), from Pali cetiya (Devanagari spelling: ????? (cetiya)), from Sanskrit ????? (caitya, “hall, temple, or place of worship”).

Noun

chedi (plural chedis)

1. A Thai Buddhist monument similar to a stupa.

Translations

Anagrams

• chide

English

Etymology 1

From Sanskrit ????? (st?pa). Doublet of tope.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?stu?p?/
• Rhymes: -u?p?

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

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

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): /²st??p?/

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): /?st??p?/

Noun

stupa n

1. definite plural of stup

References

• “stupa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?stu.pa/

Noun

stupa f

1. (Buddhism) A stupa.

Declension

Further reading

• stupa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *st?pa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stûpa/

Noun

st?pa f (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?tupa/, [es?t?u.pa]

Noun

stupa f (plural stupas)

1. stupa

Swedish

Noun

stupa c

1. A stupa; a Buddhist monument.

Declension

Verb

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

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

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

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (die): falla, dö

Related terms

• huvudstupa
• stupa isäng
• stup
• stupfull

See also

• falla
• slutta
• stöpa
• störta

Anagrams

• putsa