puja

• pooja

From Sanskrit पूजा (pūjā, “reverence or worship”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpuːdʒə/

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puja (countable and uncountable, plural pujas)

1. A religious ritual performed in South Asia as an act of worship. [from 17th c.]
   • 1879, Frances Maria Milman, Memoir of the Right Rev. Robert Milman, page 79:

     The Grunth, the holy book of the Sikhs, seems to be becoming an object of idolatrous worship. They do puja to it, and carry it in procession daily.

   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 122:

     ‘Godbole's pujah did it,’ cried the Englishman.

   • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 43:

     The priest had performed the puja and tied a string around his father's silk purse to make sure that the Rana didn't spend even a copper coin while he was a guest of Merta.

   • 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 18:

     Deeming the tank ‘polluted’ and its water unfit for consumption, a puja ceremony was performed by Brahmin men to ‘purify’ the reservoir.

• bhoomi puja
• Kali Puja
• pujari

• jaup

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpu.ʒə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpu.d͡ʒa]

Deverbal from pujar.

puja f (plural puges)

1. ascent, rise, gain

Borrowed from Sanskrit पूजा (pūjā, “reverence; worship”).

puja f (plural puges)

1. (religion) puja

puja

1. inflection of pujar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “puja”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From Malay puja, from Sanskrit पूजा (pūjā). Doublet of puji.

• IPA^(key): /pu.d͡ʒa/
• Hyphenation: pu‧ja

puja

1. an act of worship

• “puja” 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 Hindi पूजा (pūjā).

• IPA^(key): [pudʒa]

puja

1. (Hinduism) a religious ritual performed as an act of worship.

• pujari

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuxa/ [ˈpu.xa]
• Rhymes: -uxa
• Syllabification: pu‧ja

Deverbal from pujar.

puja f (plural pujas)

1. bid
2. struggle

   pujas de poder ― power struggles

puja

1. inflection of pujar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “puja”, 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