English - Turkish
Definition of pagodas in English Turkish dictionary
- pagoda
- budist tapınağı
- pagoda
- tapmak
- pagoda
- pagoda
- pagoda
- {i} uzakdoğu tapınağı
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Turkish - Turkish
Definition of pagodas in Turkish Turkish dictionary
- pagoda
- Çin, Japonya gibi Uzak Doğu ülkelerindeki tapınaklara verilen ad
- pagoda
- çin, Japonya gibi Uzakdoğu ülkelerindeki tapınaklara verilen ad
- pagoda
- Hindularda Genelde kule olarak veya büyük bir çana benzeyen şekilde inşa edilen tapınak
- pagoda
- Uzakdoğu'daki tapınaklara verilen ad
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English - English
Definition of pagodas in English English dictionary
- plural of pagoda
- pagoda
- {n} a monument, tower, temple or idol in the E. indies, a silver coin value 175 or 2 cents
- pagoda
- An Asian religious building, especially a multistory Buddhist tower, erected as a shrine or temple
- pagoda
- An eastern temple, esp in the form of many storied, tapering tower
- pagoda
- An idol
- pagoda
- A gold or silver coin, of various kinds and values, formerly current in India
- pagoda
- {i} Buddhist temple with successive upward curving roofs tapering to the top; non-religious building resembling a pagoda
- pagoda
- The Madras gold pagoda was worth about three and a half rupees
- pagoda
- An ornamental structure, of that design, erected in a park or garden
- pagoda
- A term by which Europeans designate religious temples and tower-like buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of India, Farther India, China, and Japan, usually but not always, devoted to idol worship
- pagoda
- In the early centuries of the Buddhist church in India and Central Asia, the stupa, a mound containing a sacred relic, was a central focus for worshippers Praying and meditating, they would walk around and around the stupa or stupa pillar (in the case of cave temples) As Buddhism moved into China, the stone stupa transformed into the pagoda, a brick or wooden tower-like structure, often several stories high
- pagoda
- Typically an east-Asian multistoried memorial structure, ultimately derived from an elaboration of the upper portions of a stupa
- pagoda
- A religious building, especially a multistory Buddhist tower in the Far East, erected as a memorial or shrine
- pagoda
- A pagoda is a tall building which is used for religious purposes, especially by Buddhists, in China, Japan, and South-East Asia. Pagodas are usually very highly decorated. a Buddhist temple (=religious building) that has several levels with a decorated roof at each level (pagode, probably from bhagavat ). Towerlike, multistoried structure of stone, brick, or wood, usually associated with a Buddhist temple complex and enshrining sacred relics. The pagoda evolved from the Indian stupa. The pagoda's crowning ornament is bottle-shaped in Tibet and pyramidal or conical in Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos. In China, Korea, and Japan, a pagoda is a tall tower repeating a basic story unit in diminishing proportions. The stories may be circular, square, or polygonal. The pagoda form is intended mainly as a monument and has very little usable interior space
- pagoda
- an Asian temple; usually a pyramidal tower with an upward curving roof
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Etymology
[ p&-'gO-d& ] (noun.) 1588. Portuguese pagode oriental idol, temple.Resimler
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