puja

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpuːdʒə/

puja (plural pujas)

1. A religious ritual performed in South Asia as an act of worship. [from 17th c.]
   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 122:

     ‘Godbole's pujah did it,’ cried the Englishman.

   • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, p. 43:

     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.

• pujari

• jaup

puja

1. third-person singular present indicative form of pujar
2. second-person singular imperative form of pujar

From Malay puja, from Sanskrit पूजा (pūjā).

• IPA^(key): /pu.d͡ʒa/
• Hyphenation: pu‧ja

puja

1. An act of worship.

• “puja” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

From Hindi पूजा (pūjā).

• IPA: [pudʒa]

puja

1. (Hinduism) a religious ritual performed as an act of worship.

• pujari

• Rhymes: -uxa

puja

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of pujar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of pujar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of pujar.