# stupa
## English
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈstuːpə/
* Rhymes: -uːpə

#### Noun

stupa (plural stupas)
* (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.

##### Derived terms

* ice stupa

##### Translations
#### See also

* chedi
* pagoda
* wat

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

stupa (plural stupas)
* A stupe (medicated cloth or sponge).

### Anagrams

* APTUs, Tupas, patus, pusta, sat up, sputa, tapus

## French
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्तूप (stūpa).

### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Noun

stupa m (plural stupas)
* (Buddhism) stupa

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* stupene

### Noun

stupa n
* definite plural of stup

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse stúpa.

#### Alternative forms

* stupe

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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)
* To dive (jump head-first)
* To fall suddenly, fall in battle.

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈstʉːpɑ/

#### Noun

stupa n
* definite plural of stup

### References

* “stupa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्तूप (stūpa).

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

stupa f
* (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: /stûpa/

### Noun

stȕpa f (Cyrillic spelling сту̏па)
* A mortar (hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle).
* An application with a hollow vessel to poss cloth, such as a fulling mill.
* 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
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /esˈtupa/ [esˈt̪u.pa]
* Rhymes: -upa

### Noun

stupa f (plural stupas)
* 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)
* To fall (head over heels)
* To die or fall (in battle), to be killed in action
    Synonyms: falla, dö
    Den tredje söndagen i maj är de stupades dag i FinlandThe third Sunday in May is the Day of the Fallen in Finland
* To fall asleep, exhausted (like a fallen warrior)
* 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

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

##### Related terms

* framstupa
* huvudstupa
* stupa i säng
* stup
* stupfull

##### See also

* falla
* slutta
* stöpa
* störta

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Sanskrit स्तूप (stūpa).

#### Noun

stupa c
* A stupa; a Buddhist monument.

##### Declension
### References

* stupa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* stupa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* stupa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* putsa