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Meteora Monastery in Greece
From Middle English monasterie, from Old French monastere, from Medieval Latin monastērium (“monastery”), from Ancient Greek μοναστήριον (monastḗrion, “hermitage, monastery”), from μοναστήριος (monastḗrios, “alone, made alone”) -ιον (-ion, “-ium”, suffix forming place names), from μονάζω (monázō, “to be alone”), from μόνος (mónos, “alone”) -άζω (-ázō, verb-forming suffix). Doublet of minster.
monastery (plural monasteries)
- A residence for monks or others who have taken religious vows.
building for monks
- Albanian: manastir (sq) m
- Arabic: دَيْر m (dayr)
- Egyptian Arabic: دير m (dēr)
- South Levantine Arabic: دير m (dēr)
- Aramaic: דירא f (dayrā, dayro)
- Syriac: ܕܝܪܐ f (dayrā, dayro)
- Armenian: վանք (hy) (vankʻ)
- Asturian: monasteriu m
- Azerbaijani: monastır
- Basque: monasterio (eu)
- Bavarian: Klosta
- Belarusian: манасты́р m (manastýr)
- Bengali: মঠ (bn) (moṭh), আশ্রম (bn) (asrom), মন্দির (bn) (mondir)
- Bulgarian: манасти́р (bg) m (manastír)
- Burmese: ဘုန်းကြီးကျောင်း (my) (bhun:kri:kyaung:)
- Catalan: monestir (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 修道院 (zh) (xiūdàoyuàn), 僧院 (zh) (sēngyuàn), 寺院 (zh) (sìyuàn) (Buddhist)
- Czech: klášter (cs) m, monastýr m
- Danish: kloster (da) n
- Dutch: klooster (nl) n
- Erzya: ськамонкудо (śkamonkudo)
- Esperanto: monaĥejo
- Estonian: klooster (et)
- Extremaduran: monastériu
- Faroese: kleystur n
- Finnish: luostari (fi)
- French: monastère (fr) m
- Friulian: munistîr m
- Galician: mosteiro (gl) m
- Georgian: მონასტერი (monasṭeri)
- German: Kloster (de) n
- Greek: μονή (el) f (moní), μοναστήρι (el) n (monastíri)
- Hebrew: מִנְזָר (he) m (minzár)
- Hindi: मठ (hi) m (maṭh), मन्दिर (hi) m (mandir)
- Hungarian: kolostor (hu)
- Icelandic: klaustur (is) n
- Indonesian: biara (id), wihara (id) (Buddhism)
- Irish: mainistir (ga) f
- Italian: monastero (it) m, certosa (it) f
- Japanese: 修道院 (ja) (しゅうどういん, shūdōin), 僧院 (ja) (そういん, sōin)
- Kazakh: монастырь (monastyr), ғибадатхана (ğibadatxana)
- Khmer: វត្ត (km) (vŏət)
- Korean: 수도원(修道院) (ko) (sudowon), 승원(僧院) (ko) (seung'won)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: xilwet (ku) f, peristgeh (ku) f, pîrozgeh (ku) f, dêr (ku)
- Kyrgyz: монастырь (monastır)
- Lao: ວັດ (lo) (wat)
- Latin: monastērium n (Medieval); monastēriolum (Medieval, small)
- Latvian: klosteris m
- Lithuanian: vienuolynas (lt) m
- Luxembourgish: Klouschter n
- Macedonian: манастир (mk) m (manastir)
- Malay: biara
- Malayalam: ആശ്രമം (ml) (āśramaṁ)
- Maori: whare monaki
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: хийд (mn) (xiid), хүрээ (mn) (xüree)
- Norman: monastéthe m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kloster (no) n
- Nynorsk: kloster n
- Occitan: monastièr (oc) m
- Old English: mynster
- Ottoman Turkish: مناستر (manastır), كشیشخانه (keşişhane)
- Pashto: خانقا (ps) f (xānaqã)
- Persian: خانقاه (fa) (xânqâh), دیر (fa) (deyr, dayr)
- Middle Persian: mānestān
- Polish: klasztor (pl) m, monaster (pl) m
- Portuguese: mosteiro (pt) m, monastério (pt) m
- Romanian: mânăstire (ro) f, mănăstire (ro) f
- Romansch: claustra f, clostra
- Russian: монасты́рь (ru) m (monastýrʹ)
- Sanskrit: मठ (sa) m (maṭha)
- Scottish Gaelic: manachainn f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ма̏настӣр m, са̏моста̄н m
- Roman: mȁnastīr (sh) m, sȁmostān (sh) m
- Slovak: kláštor (sk) m, monastier (sk) m
- Slovene: samostan (sl) m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: kloštaŕ m
- Upper Sorbian: klóšter m
- Spanish: monasterio (es) m
- Swahili: monasteri
- Swedish: kloster (sv) n
- Tagalog: bahay-pari
- Tajik: дайр (dayr)
- Tamil: மடம் (ta) (maṭam)
- Thai: วัด (th) (wát), อาราม (th) (aa-raam)
- Tibetan: དགོམ་པ (dgom pa)
- Tocharian B: tsāro, sānk
- Turkish: manastır (tr), keşişhane (tr)
- Turkmen: monastyr
- Ukrainian: монасти́р m (monastýr)
- Urdu: خانقاہ f (xānqāh), مٹھ m (maṭh), مندر m (mandir), تکیہ m (takiya)
- Uzbek: monastir (uz)
- Vietnamese: tu viện (vi) (修院), tự viện (vi) (寺院 (vi))
- Welsh: mynachlog f
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