igreja

Galician

Noun

igreja f (plural igrejas, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of igrexa

Further reading

• “igreja” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• egreja, egleja
• ygreja

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin ecclēsia (“church”), from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía, “congregation”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.ˈɡɾe.d͡ʒa/

Noun

igreja f (plural igrejas)

1. church
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 266 (facsimile):

     como ſṫa M de caſtro xerez guardou agente que sija na ygreia oyndo ſermon dũa traue que caeu de çima da ygreia ſobreles.

     How holy Mary of Castrojeriz saved the people, who were in the church listening to the sermon, from a beam which fell from above the church on them.

Descendants

• Galician: igrexa
• Portuguese: igreja (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2024) “igreja”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: UDC, →ISSN

Portuguese

uma igreja

Alternative forms

• igreija (misspelling)
• egreja (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese igreja, from Latin ecclēsia (“church”), from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía, “congregation”). Cognate with Galician igrexa, Spanish iglesia Catalan església, Occitan glèisa, French église, and Italian chiesa. Doublet of eclésia, a borrowing.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /iˈɡɾe.ʒɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /iˈɡɾe.ʒɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /iˈɡɾe.ʒa/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /iˈɡɾɐ(j).ʒɐ/ [iˈɣɾɐ(j).ʒɐ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /iˈɡɾɐ(j).ʒɐ/ [iˈɣɾɐ(j).ʒɐ]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /iˈɡɾe.ʒɐ/ [iˈɣɾe.ʒɐ]
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /iˈɡɾe.ʒɐ/ [iˈɣɾe.ʒɐ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /iˈɡɾe.ʒɐ/ [iˈɣɾe.ʒɐ]

• Rhymes: -eʒɐ
• Hyphenation: i‧gre‧ja

Noun

igreja f (plural igrejas)

1. church (a house of worship)
2. (Christianity) a Christian denomination

Related terms

• eclesiástico

Descendants

• Angolar: ngeedha
• Annobonese: guesa
• Guinea-Bissau Creole: igreja, grisia
• Indo-Portuguese: greja
• Kabuverdianu: igreja, grexa
• Kristang: greza
• Macanese: greza
• Principense: gêêza
• Sãotomense: glêza
• → Acehnese: geurèja
• → Bengali: গির্জা (girja)
• → Bodo (India): गिरजा (girja)
• → Gujarati: ઇગરજી (igarjī)
  • Gujarati: ગિરજા (girjā)
• → Hindi: गिरजा (girjā)
• → Iban: gerija
• → Javanese: greja
• → Kaingang: igreja
• → Konkani: इगर्जे (igarje)
• → Malay: gereja
  • Indonesian: gereja
• → Swahili: gereza (“prison”)
  • → Rwanda-Rundi: gereza
• → Tetum: igreja
• → Urdu: گرجا (girjā)

Further reading

• “igreja” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “igreja”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “igreja”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Tetum

Igreja

Etymology

From Portuguese igreja.

Noun

igreja

1. church

References

• “igreja”, in Dicionário infopédia: Tetum-English, Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024