pagoda

• pagod, pagode (both obsolete)

From Portuguese pagode, which is via Malayalam പകോതി (pakōti) from Sanskrit भगवती (bhagavatī, name of a goddess).

• (US) IPA^(key): /pəˈɡoʊ.də/

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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.]
   • 1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 325:

     On the journey southwards over the flat, fertile plains, paddy fields stretched away on each side of the line, and the landscape was broken only by wooden villages and stately pagodas.

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. (historical) A unit of currency, a coin made of gold or half gold, issued by various dynasties and colonial powers in southern India. [from 16th c.]
   • 1693 January 2 (date written; Gregorian calendar), J. Talboys Wheeler, compiler, “Governorship of Mr. Nathaniel Higginson. 1692–1698.”, in Madras in the Olden Time: Being a History of the Presidency from the First Foundation of the Governorship of Thomas Pitt, Grandfather of the Earl of Chatham. 1639–1702. […], Madras: […] J. Higginbotham, […], by Graves and Co., Scottish Press, published 1861, →OCLC, page 262:

     [T]he Mahrattas having offered Alimerdy Khan his liberty for a lak of Pagodas; he does in the Nabob's name desire that the Governor of Madras would receive jewels and money to that amount into his custody, […]

   • 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.]

• stupa
• wat

• IPA^(key): /paˈɡoda/ [paˈɣ̞o.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -oda
• Syllabification: pa‧go‧da

pagoda f (plural pagodes)

1. pagoda (a tiered tower with multiple eaves)

• IPA^(key): [ˈpaɡoda]

pagoda f

1. (architecture) pagoda

• “pagoda”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “pagoda”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɒɡodɒ]

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• Hyphenation: pa‧go‧da
• Rhymes: -dɒ

pagoda (plural pagodák)

1. (architecture) pagoda

• pagoda in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

From Portuguese pagode, which is via Malayalam പകോതി (pakōti), from Sanskrit भगवती (bhagavatī, name of a goddess) or भागवत (bhāgavata, “follower of Bhagavatī”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /paˈɡoda/ [paˈɡo.da]
• Rhymes: -oda
• Syllabification: pa‧go‧da

pagoda (plural pagoda-pagoda)

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

• meru

• “pagoda” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Portuguese pagode, which is via Malayalam പകോതി (pakōti) from Sanskrit भगवती (Bhagavatī, name of a goddess) or भागवत (Bhāgavata, “follower of Bhagavatī”).

• IPA^(key): /paˈɡɔ.da/
• Rhymes: -ɔda
• Hyphenation: pa‧gò‧da

pagoda f (plural pagode)

1. (architecture) pagoda

pagoda f (4th declension)

1. (architecture) pagoda

pagoda f (plural pagodos)

1. pagoda

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• IPA^(key): /paˈɡɔ.da/

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• Rhymes: -ɔda
• Syllabification: pa‧go‧da

pagoda f (related adjective pagodowy)

1. pagoda

• pagoda in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pagoda in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /pǎɡoda/
• Hyphenation: pa‧go‧da

pàgoda f (Cyrillic spelling па̀года)

1. (architecture) pagoda

• IPA^(key): /paˈɡoda/ [paˈɣ̞o.ð̞a]

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• Rhymes: -oda
• Syllabification: pa‧go‧da

pagoda f (plural pagodas)

1. pagoda

• “pagoda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024