temple

Etymology 1
From, from , , borrowed from. Compare, also a borrowing from the Latin.

Noun

 * 1) A house of worship, especially:
 * 2) A house of worship dedicated to a polytheistic faith.
 * , especially a non-Orthodox synagogue.
 * How often do you go to temple?
 * 1)  As opposed to an LDS meetinghouse, a church closed to non-Mormons and necessary for particular rituals.
 * 2) A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members.
 * 3)  Any place regarded as holding a religious presence.
 * 4)  Any place seen as an important centre for some activity.
 * 5)  Anything regarded as important or minutely cared for.
 * 6)  A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together.
 * 1)  Anything regarded as important or minutely cared for.
 * 2)  A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together.
 * 1)  A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together.
 * 1)  A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together.
 * 1)  A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together.

Usage notes

 * This word is rarely used in English to refer to a Christian house of worship, especially in Western Christianity.

Hyponyms

 * ; ;  ;,  ;  ,  ; ,  ;  ;  ;  ; see also Thesaurus:temple

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Aghwan: 𐕊𐔰𐕜𐔰𐕙
 * Albanian: ,
 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: kįh biyiʼ daʼchʼokąąhí
 * Arabic: مَعْبَد, هَيْكَل
 * Egyptian Arabic: معبد
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: məbəd, ibadətxana, ibadətgah
 * Baba Malay: tempeh
 * Bashkir: ғибәҙәтхана
 * Basque: tenplu
 * Belarusian: храм
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bhojpuri: 𑂧𑂢𑂹𑂠𑂱𑂪
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:, ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 廟, 寺廟
 * Mandarin:, ;  ,
 * Cornish: eglos teg
 * Czech:
 * Danish: tempel
 * Dutch:
 * Dzongkha: ལྷ་ཁང
 * Egyptian: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese: tempul
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ტაძარი
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌰𐌻𐌷𐍃, 𐌲𐌿𐌳𐌷𐌿𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ναός, ἱερόν
 * Gujarati: મંદિર
 * Hawaiian: heiau
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:, ,  ,
 * Interlingua: templo
 * Irish: teampall
 * Old Irish: tempul
 * Isan:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, Buddhist temple: , , , ,
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: ғыйбадатһана, храм, ғибадатхана
 * Khmer: ,
 * Konkani: ದೇವಸ್ಥಾನ
 * Korean:, ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: پەرستگا
 * Kyrgyz: ибадаткана,
 * Lao:
 * Latin:, aedis, dēlūbrum, fānum
 * Latvian: templis
 * Lithuanian: šventykla
 * Lü: ᦞᧆ
 * Macedonian: храм
 * Magahi: 𑂧𑂢𑂹𑂠𑂱𑂪
 * Malay: kuil
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Maltese: tempju, maqdes
 * Maori: temepara
 * Marathi: देऊळ,
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, сүм дуган,
 * Mongolian: ᠰᠦᠮ ᠡ
 * Norman: templ'ye
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: tempel
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Old English: ealh, tempel
 * Parthian: 𐭁𐭂𐭍𐭉
 * Pashto: معبد,
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:, , ناوُس, , , عِبادَتْخانِه, پَرَسْتِشْگاه‎,
 * Plautdietsch: Tempel
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani: khangeri
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ме́сто богослуже́ния
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: хра̑м, бого̀моља
 * Roman: ,
 * Shan:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: hekalu
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik: ибодатхона, маъбад, фархор, парастишгоҳ, ибодатгоҳ
 * Tamil:, ,
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:, , ,
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ལྷ་ཁང
 * Turkish:, , ,
 * Turkmen: ybadathana
 * Ukrainian:
 * Umbrian: 𐌖𐌄𐌓𐌚𐌀𐌋𐌄
 * Urdu: مَعْبَد, مَٹھ, عِبادَت گاہ, مَنْدِر
 * Uyghur: يباداتھانا, تاۈينيديغان چاي
 * Uzbek:, , ,
 * Vietnamese:, thiền viện,
 * Welsh: teml
 * Yiddish: טעמפּל, שול
 * Yoruba: tẹmpili, ile Ọlọrun
 * Zhuang: caeh


 * Albanian: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Polish:


 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Russian:


 * Indonesian: ,
 * Latin: ,
 * Telugu:

Verb

 * 1)  To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; to temple a god

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from , plural of. See.

Noun

 * 1)  The slightly flatter region, on either side of the human head, behind the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch, and forward of the ear.
 * 2)  Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.

Translations

 * Abkhaz:
 * Adyghe:
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: صَدْغ
 * Egyptian Arabic: حنطور عين, صدغ, سداغ
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: ,
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: сикә
 * Basque: loki
 * Belarusian: скронь
 * Bhojpuri: 𑂍𑂢𑂣𑂗𑂹𑂗𑂲
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 魂精
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Coptic: ⲥⲙⲁⲩ
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Fala: sen
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, ,
 * Georgian: საფეთქელი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κρόταφος, κόρση
 * Greenlandic: tulleq
 * Guaraní:
 * Gujarati: લમણું
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: tempora
 * Irish: uisinn
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kalmyk: цох
 * Kazakh: висок
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latgalian: dzausnys, pluonumi
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: deniņi
 * Lithuanian: smilkinỹs
 * Low German:
 * Dutch Low Saxon: dunegge
 * Macedonian: слепоо́чница
 * Magahi: 𑂍𑂢𑂣𑂗𑂹𑂗𑂲
 * Maithili: कनपट्टी
 * Malay: pelipis
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: ngħas
 * Manchu: ᡧᡠᠯᡠ
 * Maori: rahirahinga
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠴᠢᠮᠠᠷᠬᠠᠢ
 * Nepali:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: tinning
 * Nynorsk: tinning
 * Old English: þunwange
 * Old Galician-Portuguese: trincheira
 * Old Norse: þunnvangi
 * Ottoman Turkish: شقاق, طولون, صدغ
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani: korrijakh
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: слепоочница
 * Roman: slepoočnica
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak: slucha, spánok
 * Slovene: sence
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pilipisan, sentido
 * Tamil:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ཡ་མ
 * Turkish:
 * Ugaritic: 𐎔𐎛𐎚
 * Ukrainian: скро́ня, висо́к
 * Vietnamese:, màng tang
 * Welsh: arlais
 * West Frisian: sliep
 * Yiddish: שלייף
 * Yoruba: ẹrán
 * Zazaki: kelwe
 * Zhuang:
 * Zulu:
 * ǃXóõ: ʘqʻûbe tshôe


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh:

Etymology 3
Borrowed from ; compare and.

Noun

 * 1)  A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.

Translations

 * Burmese:
 * Italian: tempiale
 * Japanese: ,

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  building

Etymology
, borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  for worship
 * 2) hall

Etymology 1
From, from , plural of.

Etymology 2
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  (building where religious services take place)

Etymology
From or. Compare the inherited and the learned form, all ultimately from.

Etymology 1
.

Noun

 * 1) mood; humour (of a person)
 * 2) mettle; courage; spunk
 * 3) tempering
 * 4) temperature
 * 5)  tuning
 * 6)  a move of the cape before a charge
 * 1)  a move of the cape before a charge