English
Meteora Monastery in Greece
Etymology
From Middle English monasterie, from Old French monastere, from Medieval Latin monastērium (“monastery”), from Ancient Greek μοναστήριον (monastḗrion, “hermitage, monastery”), from μοναστήριος (monastḗrios, “alone, made alone”) + -ιον (-ion, “-ium: forming places”), from μονάζω (monázō, “to be alone”), from μόνος (mónos, “alone”) + -άζω (-ázō, “forming verbs”). Doublet of minster.
Pronunciation
Noun
monastery (plural monasteries)
- A residence for monks or others who have taken religious vows.
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Translations
building for monks
- Albanian: manastir (sq) m
- Arabic: دَيْر m (dayr)
- Egyptian Arabic: دير m (dēr)
- South Levantine Arabic: دير m (dēr)
- Aramaic: דירא f (dayrā, dayro)
- Syriac: ܕܝܪܐ f (dayrā, dayro)
- Armenian: վանք (hy) (vankʻ)
- Asturian: monasteriu m
- Azerbaijani: monastır
- Basque: monasterio (eu)
- Bavarian: Klosta
- Belarusian: манасты́р m (manastýr)
- Bengali: মঠ (bn) (moṭh), আশ্রম (bn) (asrom), মন্দির (bn) (mondir)
- Bulgarian: манасти́р (bg) m (manastír)
- Burmese: ဘုန်းကြီးကျောင်း (my) (bhun:kri:kyaung:)
- Catalan: monestir (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 修道院 (zh) (xiūdàoyuàn), 僧院 (zh) (sēngyuàn), 寺院 (zh) (sìyuàn) (Buddhist)
- Czech: klášter (cs) m, monastýr m
- Danish: kloster (da) n
- Dutch: klooster (nl) n
- Erzya: ськамонкудо (śkamonkudo)
- Esperanto: monaĥejo
- Estonian: klooster (et)
- Extremaduran: monastériu
- Faroese: kleystur n
- Finnish: luostari (fi)
- French: monastère (fr) m
- Friulian: munistîr m
- Galician: mosteiro (gl) m
- Georgian: მონასტერი (monasṭeri)
- German: Kloster (de) n
- Greek: μονή (el) f (moní)
- Hebrew: מִנְזָר (he) m (minzár)
- Hindi: मठ (hi) m (maṭh), मन्दिर (hi) m (mandir)
- Hungarian: kolostor (hu)
- Icelandic: klaustur (is) n
- Indonesian: biara (id), wihara (id) (Buddhism)
- Irish: mainistir (ga) f
- Italian: monastero (it) m, certosa (it) f
- Japanese: 修道院 (ja) (しゅうどういん, shūdōin), 僧院 (ja) (そういん, sōin)
- Kazakh: монастырь (monastyr), ғибадатхана (ğibadatxana)
- Khmer: វត្ត (km) (vŏət)
- Korean: 수도원(修道院) (ko) (sudowon), 승원(僧院) (ko) (seung'won)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: xilwet (ku) f, peristgeh (ku) f, pîrozgeh (ku) f, dêr (ku)
- Kyrgyz: монастырь (monastır)
- Lao: ວັດ (lo) (wat)
- Latin: monastērium n (Medieval); monastēriolum (Medieval, small)
- Latvian: klosteris m
- Lithuanian: vienuolynas (lt) m
- Luxembourgish: Klouschter n
- Macedonian: манастир m (manastir)
- Malay: biara
- Malayalam: ആശ്രമം (ml) (āśramaṁ)
- Maori: whare monaki
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: хийд (mn) (xiid), хүрээ (mn) (xüree)
- Norman: monastéthe m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kloster (no) n
- Nynorsk: kloster n
- Occitan: monastièr (oc) m
- Old English: mynster
- Ottoman Turkish: مناستر (manastır), كشیشخانه (keşişhane)
- Pashto: خانقا (ps) f (xānaqã)
- Persian: خانقاه (fa) (xânqâh), دیر (fa) (deyr, dayr)
- Middle Persian: mānestān
- Polish: klasztor (pl) m, monaster (pl) m
- Portuguese: mosteiro (pt) m, monastério (pt) m
- Romanian: mânăstire (ro) f, mănăstire (ro) f
- Romansch: claustra f, clostra
- Russian: монасты́рь (ru) m (monastýrʹ)
- Sanskrit: मठ (sa) m (maṭha)
- Scottish Gaelic: manachainn f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ма̏настӣр m, са̏моста̄н m
- Roman: mȁnastīr (sh) m, sȁmostān (sh) m
- Slovak: kláštor (sk) m, monastier m
- Slovene: samostan (sl) m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: kloštaŕ m
- Upper Sorbian: klóšter m
- Spanish: monasterio (es) m
- Swahili: monasteri
- Swedish: kloster (sv) n
- Tagalog: bahay-pari
- Tajik: дайр (dayr)
- Tamil: மடம் (ta) (maṭam)
- Thai: วัด (th) (wát), อาราม (th) (aa-raam)
- Tibetan: དགོམ་པ (dgom pa)
- Tocharian B: tsāro, sānk
- Turkish: manastır (tr), keşişhane (tr)
- Turkmen: monastyr
- Ukrainian: монасти́р m (monastýr)
- Urdu: خانقاہ f (xānqāh), مٹھ m (maṭh), مندر m (mandir), تکیہ m (takiya)
- Uzbek: monastir (uz)
- Vietnamese: tu viện (vi) (修院), tự viện (vi) (寺院)
- Welsh: mynachlog f
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