igreja

Portuguese

igreja

Etymology

From Old Portuguese ygreja, from Latin ecclēsia (“church”), from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía, “congregation”). Cognate with Galician igrexa, Catalan església, French église, Italian chiesa Occitan glèisa and Spanish iglesia.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /i.ˈɡɾe.ʒɐ/
(Portugal) IPA^(key): /i.ˈɣɾɐ.ʒɐ/, /i.ˈɣɾɐj.ʒɐ/, /i.ˈɣɾe.ʒɐ/, /i.ˈɣɾej.ʒɐ/
Hyphenation: i‧gre‧ja

Noun

igreja f (plural igrejas)

church (a house of worship)
(Christianity) a Christian denomination

Related terms

eclesiástico

Descendants

Angolar: ngeedha
Annobonese: guesa
→ Bengali: গির্জা (girja)
→ Bodo (India): गिरजा (girja)
Guinea-Bissau Creole: igreja, grisia
→ Gujarati: ગિરજા (girjā)
→ Hindi: गिरजा (girjā)
Indo-Portuguese: greja
→ Javanese: greja
→ Kaingang: igreja
Kabuverdianu: igreja, grexa
Kinyarwanda: gereza
Macanese: greza
Kristang: greza
→ Malay: gereja
- Indonesian: gereja
Principense: gêêza
Sãotomense: glêza
→ Swahili: gereza (“prison”)
→ Tetum: igreja
→ Urdu: گرجا‎ (girjā)

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