iconostasis

English

Iconostasis in the church of the Cocoș Monastery, Romania

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌaɪkəˈnɒstəsɪs/
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Noun

iconostasis (plural iconostases)

(Eastern Orthodoxy) A wall of icons between the sanctuary and the nave in a church of eastern Christendom.
- 1932, Maurice Baring, chapter 10, in Friday's Business‎:
  The altar was hidden behind an Iconostasis. The church was looked after by an old sacristan who lived in a cottage on the shore of the lake.

Translations

a wall of icons

Albanian: ikonastasi
Arabic: حَاجِز الأَيْقُونِيّ‎ m (ḥājiz al-ʔayqūniyy)
Armenian: պատկերակալ (hy) (patkerakal)
Aromanian: icunustas
Azerbaijani: ikonostas
Basque: ikonostasi
Belarusian: іканаста́с m (ikanastás)
Bulgarian: иконоста́с m (ikonostás)
Catalan: iconòstasi m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 聖像壁／圣像壁 (shèngxiàngbì), 聖障／圣障 (shèngzhàng)
Czech: ikonostas m
Danish: ikonostase
Dutch: iconostase (nl)
Esperanto: ikonostazo
Estonian: ikonostaas
Finnish: ikonostaasi (fi)
French: iconostase (fr) f
Georgian: კანკელი (ḳanḳeli)
German: Ikonostase f
Greek: εικονοστάσιο (el) n (eikonostásio)
Hebrew: איקונוסטאזיס‎ m (aykonostazis)
Hungarian: ikonosztáz (hu)
Irish: íocónastáis f
Italian: iconostasi (it)
Japanese: イコノスタシス (ikonosutashisu)
Korean: 성화벽 (seonghwabyeok)
Latvian: ikonostass m
Lithuanian: ikonostasas (lt) m
Macedonian: иконостас m (ikonostas)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ikonostasis

Nynorsk: ikonostas
Polish: ikonostas (pl) m
Portuguese: iconóstase
Romanian: iconostas (ro), tâmplă (ro), catapeteasmă (ro)
Russian: иконоста́с (ru) m (ikonostás)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: иконостас m

Roman: ikonostas (sh) m
Slovak: ikonostas m
Slovene: ikonostas (sl) m
Spanish: iconostasio (es) m
Swedish: ikonostas (sv)
Turkish: ikonostas
Ukrainian: іконоста́с (uk) m (ikonostás)

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