dagoba

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Sinhalese දාගැබ (dāgæba).

Noun

dagoba (plural dagobas)

  1. A stupa.
    • 2023, V. V. Ganeshananthan, Brotherless Night, Viking, page 20:
      There, the interviewer, a Tamil professor, asked him only one question: to describe the shape of a dagoba, a Buddhist temple