different between pagoda vs monastery

English

Etymology

From Portuguese pagode, which is via Tamil from Sanskrit ????? (bhagavat?, name of a goddess) or ????? (bh?gavata, “follower of Bhagavat?”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /p???o?.d?/

Alternative forms

• pagod, pagode (both obsolete)

Noun

pagoda (plural pagodas)

1. A religious building in South and Southeast Asia, especially a multi-storey tower erected as a Hindu or Buddhist temple. [from 16th c.]
2. (now rare, usually in form pagod) An image or carving of a god in South and Southeast Asia; an idol. [from 16th c.]
3. (now historical) A unit of currency, a coin made of gold or half gold, issued by various dynasties in medieval southern India. [from 16th c.]
   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 240:

     I, in about two hours, notwithstanding the utmost caution, found myself minus upwards of six hundred pagodas […] .

4. An ornamental structure imitating the design of the religious building, erected in a park or garden. [from 18th c.]
5. (rare) A pagoda sleeve. [from 19th c.]

Derived terms

• pagoda flower (Clerodendrum spp.)
• pagoda-like, pagodalike
• pagoda plant (Blephilia)
• pagoda tree (Styphnolobium japonicum)

Translations

See also

• stupa
• wat

Asturian

Noun

pagoda f (plural pagodes)

1. pagoda (a tiered tower with multiple eaves)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pa?oda]

Noun

pagoda f

1. (architecture) pagoda

Further reading

• pagoda in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• pagoda in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p??od?]
• Hyphenation: pa?go?da
• Rhymes: -d?

Noun

pagoda (plural pagodák)

1. (architecture) pagoda

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• pagoda in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology

From Portuguese pagode, which is via Tamil, from Sanskrit ????? (bhagavat?, name of a goddess) or ????? (bh?gavata, “follower of Bhagavat?”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pa??od?a]
• Hyphenation: pa?go?da

Noun

pagoda (plural pagoda-pagoda, first-person possessive pagodaku, second-person possessive pagodamu, third-person possessive pagodanya)

1. pagoda: a religious building in South and Southeast Asia, especially a multi-storey tower erected as a Hindu or Buddhist temple.

See also

• meru

Further reading

• “pagoda” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

From Portuguese pagode, which is via Tamil from Sanskrit ????? (Bhagavat?, name of a goddess) or ????? (Bh?gavata, “follower of Bhagavat?”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa???.da/

Noun

pagoda f (plural pagode)

1. (architecture) pagoda

Latvian

Noun

pagoda f (4th declension)

1. (architecture) pagoda

Declension

Lithuanian

Noun

pagoda f (plural pagodos)

1. pagoda

Declension

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa???.da/

Noun

pagoda f

1. pagoda

Declension

Derived terms

• pagodowy

Further reading

• pagoda in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??oda/
• Hyphenation: pa?go?da

Noun

pàgoda f (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. (architecture) pagoda

Declension

Spanish

Noun

pagoda f (plural pagodas)

1. pagoda

English

Alternative forms

• monasterie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French monastere, from Latin monast?rium, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (monast?rion, “hermit's cell”), from ????? (mónos, “alone”). Doublet of minster.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?n?st?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?n?st??i/, /?m?n?st??i/

Noun

monastery (plural monasteries)

1. Building for housing monks or others who have taken religious vows

Related terms

• monasterial
• monastic
• monasticism

Translations

See also

• abbey
• cloister
• convent
• friary
• minster

Anagrams

• asteronym, myronates, nasometry, oysterman