What is the difference between stupa and wat?
stupa | wat |
A dome-shaped Buddhist monument, used to house relics of the Lord Buddha.
* 1993 , Will Self, My Idea of Fun :
mortar (hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle)
A Buddhist temple in Southeast Asia.
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A kind of stew or curry eaten in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
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As nouns the difference between stupa and wat
is that stupa is a dome-shaped Buddhist monument, used to house relics of the Lord Buddha while wat is a Buddhist temple in Southeast Asia.As a pronoun wat is
an alternative spelling of lang=en.As an adverb wat is
an alternative spelling of lang=en.As a determiner wat is
an alternative spelling of lang=en.As a proper noun Wat is
a medieval English given name, short for Walter.stupa
English
(wikipedia stupa)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- He mounded so much honey on the top of the buns that they looked like miniature stupas .
See also
* chedi * pagoda * watEtymology 2
Anagrams
* ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==Noun
Declension
{{sh-decl-noun , stupa, stupe , stupe, stupa , stupi, stupama , stupu, stupe , stupo, stupe , stupi, stupama , stupom, stupama }} ----wat
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- There are two wats near this village.
- Angkor Wat
- It would be a mistake, however, to emphasize the Hindu element in Cambodian Buddhism and Cambodian temples. At its greatest it is always a subordinate element and in most of the wats or temples it hardly appears at all,