puja

From Sanskrit पूजा (pūjā, “reverence or worship”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpuːdʒə/

puja (countable and uncountable, plural pujas)

1. A religious ritual performed in South Asia as an act of worship. [from 17th c.]
   • 1879, Frances Maria Milman, Memoir of the Right Rev. Robert Milman (page 79)

     The Grunth, the holy book of the Sikhs, seems to be becoming an object of idolatrous worship. They do puja to it, and carry it in procession daily.

   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 122:

     ‘Godbole's pujah did it,’ cried the Englishman.

   • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, p. 43:

     The priest had performed the puja and tied a string around his father's silk purse to make sure that the Rana didn't spend even a copper coin while he was a guest of Merta.

• pujari

• jaup

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ʒə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.d͡ʒa/

From pujar.

puja f (plural puges)

1. ascent, rise, gain

puja

1. third-person singular present indicative form of pujar
2. second-person singular imperative form of pujar

From Sanskrit पूजा (pūjā, “reverence; worship”).

puja f (plural puges)

1. (religion) puja

• “puja” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Malay puja, from Sanskrit पूजा (pūjā). Doublet of puji.

• IPA^(key): /pu.d͡ʒa/
• Hyphenation: pu‧ja

puja

1. An act of worship.

• “puja” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From Hindi पूजा (pūjā).

• IPA^(key): [pudʒa]

puja

1. (Hinduism) a religious ritual performed as an act of worship.

• pujari

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuxa/ [ˈpu.xa]
• Rhymes: -uxa
• Syllabification: pu‧ja

puja f (plural pujas)

1. bid
2. struggle

puja

1. inflection of pujar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “puja”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014