# pagoda
## English
### 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: /pəˈɡoʊ.də/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

pagoda (plural pagodas)
* 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.
* (now rare, usually in form pagod) An image or carving of a god in South and Southeast Asia; an idol. [from 16th c.]
* (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 […] .
* An ornamental structure imitating the design of the religious building, erected in a park or garden. [from 18th c.]
* (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
### See also

* stupa
* wat

## Asturian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /paˈɡoda/ [paˈɣ̞o.ð̞a]
* Rhymes: -oda
* Hyphenation: pa‧go‧da

### Noun

pagoda f (plural pagodes)
* pagoda (a tiered tower with multiple eaves)

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpaɡoda]

### Noun

pagoda f
* (architecture) pagoda

#### Declension
### 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: [ˈpɒɡodɒ]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: pa‧go‧da
* Rhymes: -dɒ

### Noun

pagoda (plural pagodák)
* (architecture) pagoda

#### 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
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [paˈɡod̪a]
* Hyphenation: pa‧go‧da

### Noun

pagoda (plural)
* 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: /paˈɡɔ.da/
* Rhymes: -ɔda
* Hyphenation: pa‧gò‧da

### Noun

pagoda f (plural pagode)
* (architecture) pagoda

## Latvian
### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

pagoda f (4th declension)
* (architecture) pagoda

#### Declension
## Lithuanian
### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

pagoda f (plural pagodos)
* pagoda

#### Declension
## Polish
### Etymology

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### Pronunciation

* IPA: /paˈɡɔ.da/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔda
* Syllabification: pa‧go‧da

### Noun

pagoda f (related adjective pagodowy)
* pagoda

#### Declension
### Further reading

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

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pǎɡoda/
* Hyphenation: pa‧go‧da

### Noun

pàgoda f (Cyrillic spelling па̀года)
* (architecture) pagoda

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /paˈɡoda/ [paˈɣ̞o.ð̞a]
* Audio (Venezuela):(file)
* Rhymes: -oda
* Syllabification: pa‧go‧da

### Noun

pagoda f (plural pagodas)
* pagoda

### Further reading

* “pagoda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10