puja
English
editEtymology
editFrom Sanskrit पूजा (pūjā, “reverence or worship”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpuja (countable and uncountable, plural pujas)
- A religious ritual performed in South Asia as an act of worship. [from 17th c.]
- 1879, Frances Maria Milman, Memoir of the Right Rev. Robert Milman, page 79:
- The Grunth, the holy book of the Sikhs, seems to be becoming an object of idolatrous worship. They do puja to it, and carry it in procession daily.
- 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 122:
- ‘Godbole's pujah did it,’ cried the Englishman.
- 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 43:
- The priest had performed the puja and tied a string around his father's silk purse to make sure that the Rana didn't spend even a copper coin while he was a guest of Merta.
- 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 18:
- Deeming the tank ‘polluted’ and its water unfit for consumption, a puja ceremony was performed by Brahmin men to ‘purify’ the reservoir.
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editEtymology 1
editNoun
editpuja f (plural puges)
Etymology 2
editBorrowed from Sanskrit पूजा (pūjā, “reverence; worship”).
Noun
editpuja f (plural puges)
Etymology 3
editVerb
editpuja
- inflection of pujar:
Further reading
edit- “puja” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Indonesian
editEtymology
editFrom Malay puja, from Sanskrit पूजा (pūjā). Doublet of puji.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpuja
- An act of worship.
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editRelated terms
editFurther reading
edit- “puja” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Mauritian Creole
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editpuja
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editSpanish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editpuja f (plural pujas)
Etymology 2
editVerb
editpuja
- inflection of pujar:
Further reading
edit- “puja”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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