igreja

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

igreja f (plural igrejas, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of igrexa

• “igreja”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

• egreja, egleja
• ygreja

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

• IPA^(key): /i.ˈɡɾe.ʒa/

igreja f (plural igrejas)

1. church
   • a. 1284, 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.

• Galician: igrexa
• Portuguese: igreja, igreija (misspelling), egreja (pre-standardization spelling), eigreja, igleja (obsolete)
  • 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)
    • → Assamese: গিৰ্জা (girza)
      • →? Bodo (India): गिरजा (girza)
    • → Odia: ଗୀର୍ଜା (girjā)
  • → Gujarati: ઇગરજી (igarjī)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: गिरजा (girjā), गिर्जा (girjā)

    Urdu: گِرْجا (girjā)

    • → Marwari: गिरजौ (girjau)
    • → Pashto: ګرجا
    • → Punjabi:

      Gurmukhi script: ਗਿਰਜਾ (girjā)

      Shahmukhi script: گِرْجا (girjā)

  • → Iban: gerija
  • → Javanese: greja
  • → Kaingang: igreja
  • → Konkani:

    Devanagari script: इगर्जे (igarje), इगर्ज (igarja)

    Latin script: igarze, igarza

    Kannada script: ಇಗರ್ಜೆ (igarje), ಇಗರ್ಜ (igarja)

  • → Malay: gereja
    • Indonesian: gereja
  • → Swahili: gereza (“prison”)
    • → Rwanda-Rundi: gereza
  • → Tetum: igreja

• Ferreiro, Manuel (2014–2026), “igreja”, in Universo Cantigas: edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa [Universo Cantigas: critical edition of Galician-Portuguese medieval poetry] (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN

• igreija (misspelling)
• egreja (pre-standardization spelling)
• eigreja, igleja (obsolete)

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.

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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

igreja f (plural igrejas)

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

• eclesiástico

• “igreja” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• Xavier, Anthony Soares, transl. (1936) [1913], Portuguese Vocables in Asiatic Languages, Baroda: Oriental Institute, translation of Influencia do Vocabulario Português em Línguas Asiáticas by Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado (in Portuguese), →ISBN, page 176, column 1
• “igreja”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “igreja”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From Portuguese igreja.

igreja

1. church

• “igreja”, in Dicionário infopédia: Tetum-English, Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026