pagoda

See also: pagodă

English

The pagoda at Shitennoji in Osaka

A star pagoda of the Madras Presidency with Vishnu on the obverse and star on the reverse

Alternative forms

• pagod, pagode (both obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /pəˈɡoʊ.də/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

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.]

Derived terms

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

 

Translations

a tiered tower with multiple eaves

• Albanian: pagodë (sq)
• Arabic: بَاغُودٰ f (bāḡūdā)
• Armenian: պագոդա (hy) (pagoda)
• Asturian: pagoda (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: paqoda
• Belarusian: па́гада f (páhada)
• Bengali: প্যাগোডা (pêgōḍa)
• Bulgarian: па́года f (págoda)
• Burmese: ဘုရား (my) (bhu.ra:), စေတီ (my) (ceti)
• Catalan: pagoda f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 寶塔／宝塔 (bou² taap³)

  Hokkien: please add this translation if you can

  Mandarin: 寶塔／宝塔 (zh) (bǎotǎ), 塔 (zh) (tǎ)

• Czech: pagoda f
• Danish: pagode (da) c
• Dutch: pagode (nl)
• Esperanto: pagodo
• Estonian: pagood
• Finnish: pagodi (fi)
• French: pagode (fr) f
• Friulian: pagode f
• Galician: pagode (gl) m
• Georgian: პაგოდა (ṗagoda)
• German: Pagode (de) f
• Greek: παγόδα f (pagóda)
• Hebrew: פָּגוֹדָה (he)
• Hindi: पगोडा (pagoḍā), बुत-कदा (but-kadā), बुत-ख़ाना m (but-xānā), देवल (hi) m (deval), मन्दिर (hi) m (mandir)
• Hungarian: pagoda (hu)
• Indonesian: pagoda (id)
• Italian: pagoda (it) f
• Japanese: パゴダ (pagoda), 塔 (ja) (とう, tō), 五輪の塔 (ごりんのとう, gorin no tō), 仏塔 (ja) (ぶっとう, buttō), 五重の塔, 五重塔 (ja) (ごじゅうのとう, gojū no tō), 石塔 (ja) (せきとう, sekitō), 三重塔 (さんじゅうのとう, sanjū no tō), 塔婆 (ja) (とうば, tōba)
• Khmer: វត្ត (km) (vŏət)
• Korean: 탑(塔) (ko) (tap), 탑파(塔婆) (tap'pa)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: pagoda (ku)

• Lao: ທາດ (thāt), ເຈດີ (chē dī), ສະຖູບ (sa thūp)
• Latvian: pagoda f
• Lithuanian: pagoda f
• Macedonian: пагода f (pagoda)
• Malay: pagoda
• Marathi: पॅगोडा (pĕgoḍā)
• Mon: ကျာ် (mnw), စေတဳ (mnw)
• Mongolian: суврага (suvraga), ᠰᠤᠪᠤᠷᠭ
  ᠠ (suburg a)
• Nepali: प्यागोडा (pyāgoḍā)
• Norwegian: pagode
• Persian: پاگودا (fa) (pâgodâ), بت‌کده (bot-kade)
• Polish: pagoda (pl) f
• Portuguese: pagode (pt) m
• Romanian: pagodă (ro) f
• Russian: па́года (ru) f (págoda)
• Sanskrit: भगवत (bhagavata)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пагода f

  Roman: pagoda (sh) f

• Shan: ၵွင်းမူး (shn) (káung múu), ၸေႇတီႇ (shn) (tsèe tìi)
• Sinhalese: පැගෝඩා (pægōḍā)
• Slovak: pagoda f
• Slovene: pagoda f
• Spanish: pagoda (es) f
• Swedish: pagod (sv) c
• Tagalog: pagoda
• Tai Nüa: ᥐᥩᥒᥰᥛᥧᥰ (köangmü)
• Thai: ถะ (th) (tà), เจดีย์ (th) (jee-dii), ปรางค์ (th) (bpraang), สถูป (sà-tùup)
• Tibetan: མཆོད་རྟེན (mchod rten)
• Turkish: pagoda (tr), uzakdoğu tapınağı
• Ukrainian: па́года (uk) f (páhoda)
• Urdu: پگوڈا (pagoḍā), بت کدہ m (but-kadā), بت خانہ m (but-xānā), دیول m (deval), مندر m (mandir)
• Vietnamese: bảo tháp, tháp chùa

See also

• stupa
• wat

Asturian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pagoda f (plural pagodes)

1. pagoda (a tiered tower with multiple eaves)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpaɡoda]

Noun

pagoda f

1. (architecture) pagoda

Declension

Declension of pagoda (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	pagoda	pagody
genitive	pagody	pagod
dative	pagodě	pagodám
accusative	pagodu	pagody
vocative	pagodo	pagody
locative	pagodě	pagodách
instrumental	pagodou	pagodami

Further reading

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

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɒɡodɒ]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pa‧go‧da
• Rhymes: -dɒ

Noun

pagoda (plural pagodák)

1. (architecture) pagoda

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	pagoda	pagodák
accusative	pagodát	pagodákat
dative	pagodának	pagodáknak
instrumental	pagodával	pagodákkal
causal-final	pagodáért	pagodákért
translative	pagodává	pagodákká
terminative	pagodáig	pagodákig
essive-formal	pagodaként	pagodákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	pagodában	pagodákban
superessive	pagodán	pagodákon
adessive	pagodánál	pagodáknál
illative	pagodába	pagodákba
sublative	pagodára	pagodákra
allative	pagodához	pagodákhoz
elative	pagodából	pagodákból
delative	pagodáról	pagodákról
ablative	pagodától	pagodáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	pagodáé	pagodáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	pagodáéi	pagodákéi

Possessive forms of pagoda
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	pagodám	pagodáim
2nd person sing.	pagodád	pagodáid
3rd person sing.	pagodája	pagodái
1st person plural	pagodánk	pagodáink
2nd person plural	pagodátok	pagodáitok
3rd person plural	pagodájuk	pagodáik

Derived terms

• pagodás

 

Further reading

• 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

Indonesian

pagoda

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.

See also

• meru

Further reading

• “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.

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pagoda f (plural pagode)

1. (architecture) pagoda

Latvian

Noun

pagoda f (4th declension)

1. (architecture) pagoda

Declension

Declension of pagoda (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	pagoda	pagodas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	pagodu	pagodas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	pagodas	pagodu
dative (datīvs)	pagodai	pagodām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	pagodu	pagodām
locative (lokatīvs)	pagodā	pagodās
vocative (vokatīvs)	pagoda	pagodas

Lithuanian

Noun

pagoda f (plural pagodos)

1. pagoda

Declension

Declension of pagoda

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	pagoda	pagodos
genitive (kilmininkas)	pagodos	pagodų
dative (naudininkas)	pagodai	pagodoms
accusative (galininkas)	pagodą	pagodas
instrumental (įnagininkas)	pagoda	pagodomis
locative (vietininkas)	pagodoje	pagodose
vocative (šauksmininkas)	pagoda	pagodos

Polish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈɡɔ.da/

• Audio:

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

Noun

pagoda f (related adjective pagodowy)

1. pagoda

Declension

Declension of pagoda

	singular	plural
nominative	pagoda	pagody
genitive	pagody	pagod
dative	pagodzie	pagodom
accusative	pagodę	pagody
instrumental	pagodą	pagodami
locative	pagodzie	pagodach
vocative	pagodo	pagody

Further reading

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

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pàgoda f (Cyrillic spelling па̀года)

1. (architecture) pagoda

Declension

Declension of pagoda

	singular	plural
nominative	pagoda	pagode
genitive	pagode	pagoda
dative	pagodi	pagodama
accusative	pagodu	pagode
vocative	pagodo	pagode
locative	pagodi	pagodama
instrumental	pagodom	pagodama

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈɡoda/ [paˈɣ̞o.ð̞a]

• Audio (Venezuela):

  (file)

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

Noun

pagoda f (plural pagodas)

1. pagoda

Further reading

• “pagoda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28