pagoda

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A Hindu temple.

   “This King of Calycut was a Bramene, as others his Predeceſſours alſo were, which amongſt the Malabars are Prieſts, and for that it is a cuſtome and anncient order obſerved, that all the Kings doe dye in one Pagode, which is the houſe of praiers to their Idolls...”

2. isim A tall building in an Indian, Burmese, or Thai style erected at Hindu or Buddhist temples in South and Southeast Asia, a stupa surmounted with a high point.
3. isim A multi-storey tower in a Chinese style used in various contexts across East Asia and Nepal, usually with upturned curving roofs above each storey.

   “He declared he would ascend the highest pinnacle of the highest pagod in Japan.”

4. isim Alternative form of pagod, an idol, chiefly in South and Southeast Asia.
5. isim A unit of currency, a coin made of gold or half gold, issued by various dynasties and colonial powers in southern India.

   “[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, […]”

6. isim Short for pagoda sleeve.