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dagoba

dagoba noun: synonym of stupa, particularly the white stupas of Sri Lanka.

dagoba: synonym of stupa, particularly the white stupas of Sri Lanka
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Noun

dagoba (plural dagobas)

  1. (archaic) Synonym of stupa, particularly the white stupas of Sri Lanka.
    • There, the interviewer, a Tamil professor, asked him only one question: to describe the shape of a dagoba, a Buddhist temple2023, V. V. Ganeshananthan, Brotherless Night, Viking, page 20
    Synonyms:
    stupa, particularly the white stupas of Sri Lanka
  2. Synonym of chorten, a stupa in the usual Tibetan style, white and spindle-shaped.
    Synonyms:
    chorten

dagoba meaning in Tamil

dagoba in Tamil

புத்த தூபி

Synonyms of dagoba

Forms of dagoba

pluraldagobas
alternative formdagaba
alternative formdagobah

Origin of dagoba

Borrowed from Sinhalese දාගැබ (dāgæba).

Questions about dagoba

What does dagoba mean?
Dagoba means synonym of stupa, particularly the white stupas of Sri Lanka.
What is dagoba in Tamil?
Dagoba in Tamil is புத்த தூபி. See Dagoba meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dagoba?
Dagoba is a noun.
What is the plural of dagoba?
The plural of dagoba is dagobas.

Words near dagoba in the dictionary

  1. dago bombs
  2. dago dazzler
  3. dago dazzlers
  4. dago red
  5. dago reds
  6. dagoba
  7. dagobah
  8. dagobahs
  9. dagobas
  10. dagoes
  11. Dagohoy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dagoba (page history and authors); dagoba (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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