covered building, Civil reunion place open to the public · a Christian church building having a nave with a semicircular apse, side aisles, a narthex and a clerestory
Roman Catholic church (in Poland or the Baltic states)
çekim: çoğul костёлы · tamlayan костёла
köken: Borrowed from Polish kościół (“church”), from Czech kostel, from Old High German kastel, from Latin castellum (“castle, fort”), because medieval churches were fortified. Compare Ukrainian костьо́л (kostʹól) / косте́л (kostél) and Belarusian касцёл (kascjól).
church (building and organization) · synagogue (building and organization) · a kind of palanquin or litter in which the rider conceals himself
çekim: çoğul كَنَائِس · tamlayan كَنِيسَةٍ
köken: From the root ك ن س (k n s), referring to congregation and sweeping together. Compare the Hebrew root כ־נ־ס (k-n-s), whence Hebrew כְּנֶסֶת (knéset). Apparently, however, the sense of synagogue is a semantic loan from Aramaic כְּנִישְׁתָּא (kənīštā), כְּנִישָׁא (kənīšā), from the root כ־נ־שׁ (k-n-š), to which the Christian sense was added later.
köken: Borrowed from Russian це́рковь (cérkovʹ). Cognate with Bashkir сиркәү (sirkəw), Kildin Sami цэ̄ркав (cērkav), Kyrgyz чиркөө (cirköö), Skolt Sami ceerkav, etc.
köken: Borrowed from Russian це́рковь (cérkovʹ). Cognate with Bashkir сиркәү (sirkəw), Kildin Sami цэ̄ркав (cērkav), Kazakh шіркеу (şırkeu), Skolt Sami ceerkav, etc.
basilica (type of church) · basilica (title given to some churches) · basilica (court and market hall in the forum or a large hall in a palace, divided into aisles by columns)
çekim: çoğul bazyliki · tamlayan bazyliki
köken: Learned borrowing from Latin basilica. First attested in 1610. Compare Silesian bazylika.
köken: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic храмъ (xramŭ) via Old East Slavic храмъ (xramŭ). Doublet of хоро́м (xoróm) from хоромъ (xoromŭ). For sense as patrons saint's day, compare Romanian hram.
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian کَلِیسَا (kalīsā), borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía), from ἔκκλητος (ékklētos) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā). Doublet of कलीसिया (kalīsiyā) and गिरजा (girjā).
altar (flat-topped structure used for religious rites) · communion table · chancel
çekim: çoğul altare · tamlayan altarului
köken: Inherited from Latin altārium or altār, with the plural deriving from altāria. Compare oltar, a rare and dated variant which derives from the same source via a Slavic intermediary.