pagoda

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Besides its structure the thing that really amazed me about the pagoda were the thousands of birds that constantly flew around it.

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  1. noun A religious building of the Far East, especially a multistory Buddhist tower, erected as a memorial or shrine.
  2. noun A stupa.
  3. noun A structure, such as a garden pavilion, built in imitation of a multistory Buddhist tower.

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  1. Portuguese pagode, perhaps from Tamil pagavadi, from Sanskrit bhagavatī, goddess, from feminine of bhagavat-, blessed, from bhagaḥ, good fortune; see bhag- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also pagod, pagode (see pagod), pagathoe, etc.; from French pagode = German pagode, from Spanish pagoda = Portuguese pagoda, pagode; from Persian (later Hindustani) butkadah, an idol-temple, a pagoda, from but, an idol, image, statue, + kadah, temple. Cf. equivalent Hindustani but-khāna, from but, an idol, + khāna, a house. The Chinese name is peh-kuh-t'a or poh-kuh-t'a (‘white bone tower’), pao-t'a (‘precious pile or tower’), or simply t'a, pile, tower.
 

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