pagodit ne demek?

pagod

1. (Mimarlık) (Hintçe bhagavati = kutsal ev) Birbiri üzerine konmuş saçaklı katlardan meydana gelme Hint ya da Çin tapınağı.

pagoda

1. Çin, Japonya vb. Uzak Doğu ülkelerindeki tapınak.
2. Bk. acı meyan
3. 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.
4. An idol.
5. Gold or silver coin, of various kinds and values, formerly current in India.
6. Pagoda.
7. Religious building, especially a multistory Buddhist tower in the Far East, erected as a memorial or shrine.
8. Typically an east-Asian multistoried memorial structure, ultimately derived from an elaboration of the upper portions of a stupa.
9. 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 As Buddhism moved into China, the stone stupa transformed into the pagoda, a brick or wooden tower-like structure, often several stories high.
10. The Madras gold pagoda was worth about three and a half rupees.