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puja

UK/ˈpuː.dʒə//ˈpu.dʒə/

puja noun: a religious ritual performed in South Asia as an act of worship.

Noun

puja (countable and uncountable, plural pujas)

  1. A religious ritual performed in South Asia as an act of worship.
    • 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.1879, Frances Maria Milman, Memoir of the Right Rev. Robert Milman, page 79
    • ‘Godbole's pujah did it,’ cried the Englishman.1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 122

Proper noun capitalized: Puja

Puja

  1. A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.

puja meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Punjabi

puja in Tamil

பூசை, வழிபாடு, திருவிழா

puja in Urdu

puja, a Hindu ritual offered to various deities, distinguished persons, or special guests
پوجا pūjā

puja in Malayalam

puja, pooja; a religious ritual performed in South Asia as an act of worship
പൂജ pūja
puja
തേവാരം tēvāraṁ

puja in Punjabi

puja, a Hindu ritual offered to various deities, distinguished persons, or special guests
پوجا pūjā, ਪੂਜਾ pūjā
More languagesFewer languages
puja in Gujarati
પૂજા pūjā

Examples of puja in a sentence

  • 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.1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 43:
  • Deeming the tank ‘polluted’ and its water unfit for consumption, a puja ceremony was performed by Brahmin men to ‘purify’ the reservoir.2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 18:

Forms of puja

Noun
pluralpujas
alternative formpooja
Proper noun
alternative formPooja

Plural of puja: pujas

Origin of puja

From Sanskrit पूजा (pūjā, “reverence or worship”).

Borrowed from Sanskrit पूजा (pūjā).

Questions about puja

What does puja mean?
Puja means a religious ritual performed in South Asia as an act of worship.
What is puja in Tamil?
Puja in Tamil is பூசை, வழிபாடு, திருவிழா. See Puja meaning in Tamil.
How do you use puja in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is puja?
Puja can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce puja?
Puja is pronounced /ˈpuː.dʒə/ (UK).
What is the plural of puja?
The plural of puja is pujas.

Words near puja in the dictionary

  1. puissantly
  2. puissantness
  3. puit
  4. puits
  5. PUJ
  6. puja
  7. pujah
  8. pujahs
  9. pujaree
  10. pujarees
  11. pujari

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: puja (page history and authors); Puja (page history and authors); puja (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); پوجا (Urdu) (page history and authors); തേവാരം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); پوجا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); પૂજા (Gujarati) (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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