stupa

See also: Stupa, stupă, stupã, stupą, and stúpa

English

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्तूप (stūpa). Doublet of tope.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstuːpə/
  • Rhymes: -uːpə

Noun

stupa (plural stupas)

  1. (Buddhism) A dome-shaped Buddhist monument, used to house relics of the Lord Buddha.
    • 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:
      He mounded so much honey on the top of the buns that they looked like miniature stupas.
    • 2023, V. V. Ganeshananthan, Brotherless Night, Viking, page 303:
      I cupped her cheeks and thought of the lotus flowers at the thresholds of Buddhist stupas, their pale petals resting in the palms of the faithful.
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Etymology 2

Noun

stupa (plural stupas)

  1. A stupe (medicated cloth or sponge).

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French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्तूप (stūpa).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stu.pa/, /sty.pa/

Noun

stupa m (plural stupas)

  1. (Buddhism) stupa

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

stupa n

  1. definite plural of stup

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse stúpa.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²stʉːpɑ/

Verb

stupa (present tense stuper or styp, past tense stupte or staup, supine stupt or stope, past participle stupt or stopen, present participle stupande, imperative stup)

  1. To dive (jump head-first)
  2. To fall suddenly, fall in battle.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstʉːpɑ/

Noun

stupa n

  1. definite plural of stup

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Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्तूप (stūpa).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstu.pa/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -upa
  • Syllabification: stu‧pa

Noun

stupa f

  1. (Buddhism) stupa (dome-shaped Buddhist monument, used to house relics of the Lord Buddha)

Declension

Further reading

  • stupa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stǫpa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stûpa/

Noun

stȕpa f (Cyrillic spelling сту̏па)

  1. A mortar (hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle).
  2. An application with a hollow vessel to poss cloth, such as a fulling mill.
  3. A pounding-mill, stamp-mill for grain, the contrivance where corn had to be pounded in hollow blocks before the meal mill has been invented.

Declension

Declension of stupa
singular plural
nominative stupa stupe
genitive stupe stupa
dative stupi stupama
accusative stupu stupe
vocative stupo stupe
locative stupi stupama
instrumental stupom stupama

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /esˈtupa/ [esˈt̪u.pa]
  • Rhymes: -upa

Noun

stupa f (plural stupas)

  1. stupa

Swedish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Swedish stupa, from Proto-Germanic *stūpaną. Cognate of English stoop (crouch).

Verb

stupa (present stupar, preterite stupade or stöp, supine stupat, imperative stupa)

  1. To fall (head over heels)
  2. To die or fall (in battle), to be killed in action
    Synonyms: falla,
    Den tredje söndagen i maj är de stupades dag i Finland
    The third Sunday in May is the Day of the Fallen in Finland
  3. To fall asleep, exhausted (like a fallen warrior)
  4. To slope steeply.
    branta kalkstensklippor som stupar ner mot de slingrande floderna Dordogne och Vézère.
    steep limestone cliffs that fall down towards the meandering rivers Dordogne and Vézère.
Conjugation
Conjugation of stupa (weak)
active passive
infinitive stupa
supine stupat
imperative stupa
imper. plural1 stupen
present past present past
indicative stupar stupade
ind. plural1 stupa stupade
subjunctive2 stupe stupade
present participle stupande
past participle stupad

1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

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Etymology 2

Borrowed from Sanskrit स्तूप (stūpa).

Noun

stupa c

  1. A stupa; a Buddhist monument.
Declension

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