pagoda

• pagod, pagode (both obsolete)

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

• (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. (now historical) A unit of currency, a coin made of gold or half gold, issued by various dynasties in medieval southern India. [from 16th c.]
   • 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.]

• pagoda flower (Clerodendrum spp.)
• pagoda-like, pagodalike
• pagoda mast
• pagoda plant (Blephilia)
• pagoda tree (Styphnolobium japonicum)

• stupa
• wat

pagoda f (plural pagodes)

1. pagoda (a tiered tower with multiple eaves)

• IPA^(key): [ˈpaɡoda]

pagoda f

1. (architecture) pagoda

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• pagoda in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• pagoda in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɒɡodɒ]

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• Hyphenation: pa‧go‧da
• Rhymes: -dɒ

pagoda (plural pagodák)

1. (architecture) pagoda

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

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

• IPA^(key): [paˈɡod̪a]
• Hyphenation: pa‧go‧da

pagoda (plural pagoda-pagoda, first-person possessive pagodaku, second-person possessive pagodamu, third-person possessive pagodanya)

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: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From Portuguese pagode, which is via Tamil 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

• IPA^(key): /paˈɡɔ.da/

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

pagoda f

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

pagoda f (plural pagodas)

1. pagoda

• “pagoda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014