different between pagoda vs tower

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

• towre (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From Middle English tour, tur, tor, from Old English t?r, tor, torr ("tower; rock"; > English tor) and Old French tour, toer, tor; both from Latin turris (“a tower”).

Compare Scots tour, towr, towre (“tower”), West Frisian toer (“tower”), Dutch toren (“tower”), German Turm (“tower”), Danish tårn (“tower”), Swedish torn (“tower”), Icelandic turn (“tower”), Welsh t?r. Doublet of tor.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ta?.?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ta??/
• Rhymes: -a?.?(?)

Noun

tower (plural towers)

1. A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite, or other communication antennas are installed; mast.
2. A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires, plane crashes, fugitives, etc.
3. A water tower.
4. A control tower.
5. Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper.

   The Sears Tower

6. (figuratively) Any item, such as a computer case, that is usually higher than it is wide.
7. (informal) An interlocking tower.
8. (figuratively) A strong refuge; a defence.

   • Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.

9. (historical) A tall fashionable headdress worn in the time of King William III and Queen Anne.

   • Lay trains of amorous intrigues / In towers, and curls, and periwigs.

10. (obsolete) High flight; elevation.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)

11. The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.
12. (cartomancy) The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.

Synonyms

• donjon

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? German: Tower
• ? Hindi: ???? (??var)
• ? Japanese: ??? (taw?)
• ? Korean: ?? (tawo)
• ? Northern Kurdish: tawer
• ? Punjabi: ???? (??var)

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English touren, torren, torrien, from Old English *torrian, from the noun (see above).

Verb

tower (third-person singular simple present towers, present participle towering, simple past and past participle towered)

1. (intransitive) To be very tall.

2. (intransitive) To be high or lofty; to soar.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To soar into.

Derived terms

• tower over

See also

• The Tower (Tarot card) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• mast

Etymology 3

From tow +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??.?(?)/

Noun

tower (plural towers)

1. One who tows.
   • 1933, Henry Sturmey, H. Walter Staner, The Autocar

     But as the tower and towee reached the cross-roads again, another car, negligently driven, came round the corner, hit the Morris, and severed the tow rope, sending the unfortunate car back again into the shop window […]

Anagrams

• towre, twoer, wrote

Afrikaans

Verb

tower (present tower, present participle towerende, past participle getower)

1. Alternative form of toor.