stupa

From Sanskrit स्तूप (stūpa). Doublet of tope.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstuːpə/
• Rhymes: -uːpə

stupa (plural stupas)

1. (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.

• ice stupa

• chedi
• pagoda
• wat

stupa (plural stupas)

1. A stupe (medicated cloth or sponge).

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

• stupene

stupa n

1. definite plural of stup

From Old Norse stúpa.

• stupe

• IPA^(key): /²stʉːpɑ/

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)

1. To dive (jump head-first)
2. To fall suddenly, fall in battle.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstʉːpɑ/

stupa n

1. definite plural of stup

• “stupa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्तूप (stūpa).

• IPA^(key): /ˈstu.pa/

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• Rhymes: -upa
• Syllabification: stu‧pa

stupa f

1. (Buddhism) stupa (dome-shaped Buddhist monument, used to house relics of the Lord Buddha)

• stupa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stǫpa.

• IPA^(key): /stûpa/

stȕpa f (Cyrillic spelling сту̏па)

1. A mortar (hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle).
2. An application with a hollow vessel to poss cloth, such as a fulling mill.
3. 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.

• IPA^(key): /esˈtupa/ [esˈt̪u.pa]
• Rhymes: -upa

stupa f (plural stupas)

1. stupa

Inherited from Old Swedish stupa, from Proto-Germanic *stūpaną. Cognate of English stoop (“crouch”).

stupa (present stupar, preterite stupade or stöp, supine stupat, imperative stupa)

1. To fall (head over heels)
2. To die or fall (in battle), to be killed in action

   Synonyms: falla, dö

   Den tredje söndagen i maj är de stupades dag i Finland

   The third Sunday in May is the Day of the Fallen in Finland

3. To fall asleep, exhausted (like a fallen warrior)
4. 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.

• framstupa
• huvudstupa
• stupa i säng
• stup
• stupfull

• falla
• slutta
• stöpa
• störta

Borrowed from Sanskrit स्तूप (stūpa).

stupa c

1. A stupa; a Buddhist monument.

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

• putsa