synagogue

See also: synnagogue

English

A synagogue, with several of the architectural features traditional to such a building.

Alternative forms

• synagog (much rarer)

Etymology

From Middle English synagoge, from Old French synagoge, from Latin synagōga, from Ancient Greek σῠνᾰγωγή (sŭnăgōgḗ, “assembly, gathering”), from συνάγω (sunágō, “I gather together”), from σῠ́ν (sŭ́n, “with, together”) + ᾰ̓́γω (ắgō, “I lead”). By surface analysis, syn- +‎ -agogue.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪ.nəˌɡɒɡ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪ.nəˌɡɑɡ/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

synagogue (plural synagogues)

2. A place of worship for Jews or Samaritans.
   • 2013 May 7, “Netanyahu: Jewish people capable of own defense”, in AP News‎^[1], archived from the original on 25 May 2022:

     On Tuesday, Netanyahu and his wife toured Shanghai’s Ohel Moshe synagogue in the Hongkou district that was home to many of the 18,000 Jews granted refuge in Shanghai from the horrors of Nazi persecution.

3. A congregation of Jews or Samaritans for the purpose of worship or religious study.

Synonyms

• shul

Coordinate terms

• mosque, church, temple, gurdwara, fire temple, mandir, jinja, House of Worship

Derived terms

• mega-synagogue
• synagogal
• synagogical
• synagogue-goer
• synagogue-going
• Synagogue of Satan

Translations

Jewish place of worship

• Afrikaans: sinagoge (af)
• Albanian: sinagogë (sq)
• Arabic: كَنِيس (ar) m (kanīs), بِيعَة (ar) f (bīʕa), صَلَاة f (ṣalāh)

  Judeo-Arabic: כניס m (kanīs), כניסיא f (kanīsiyya), צלא f (ṣla), שנוגׄא f (šnūġa) (Algeria, Morocco)

• Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: սինագոգ (hy) (sinagog), ժողովուրդ (hy) (žoġovurd)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܢܘܫܬܐ f (knuštā)
• Asturian: sinagoga (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: sinaqoq, xavra
• Basque: sinagoga
• Belarusian: сінаго́га f (sinahóha)
• Berber:

  Tashelhit: ccnuɣt f, tacnuɣt f

• Bulgarian: синаго́га (bg) f (sinagóga)
• Catalan: sinagoga (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 猶太廟 / 犹太庙 (jau⁴ taai³ miu⁶)

  Mandarin: 猶太教堂 / 犹太教堂 (zh) (yóutài jiàotáng), 猶太會堂 / 犹太会堂 (zh) (yóutài huìtáng), 猶太廟 / 犹太庙 (Yóutài miào)

• Czech: synagoga (cs) f
• Danish: synagoge (da) c
• Dutch: synagoge (nl) f
• Esperanto: sinagogo
• Estonian: sünagoog (et)
• Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: sýnagoga f
• Finnish: synagoga (fi)
• French: synagogue (fr) f
• Friulian: please add this translation if you can
• Galician: sinagoga f
• Georgian: სინაგოგა (sinagoga)
• German: Synagoge (de) f, Schule (de) f (archaic)
• Gothic: 𐍃𐍅𐌽𐌰𐌲𐍉𐌲𐌴 f (swnagōgē)
• Greek: συναγωγή (el) f (synagogí), χάβρα (el) f (chávra) (colloquial)

  Ancient: συναγωγή f (sunagōgḗ)

• Hebrew: בֵּית־כְּנֶסֶת (he) m (beit-k'néset)
• Hindi: आराधनालय (ārādhnālay), सिनेगग (sinegag)
• Hungarian: zsinagóga (hu)
• Icelandic: samkunduhús n, sýnagóga f
• Ido: sinagogo (io)
• Indonesian: sinagoge (id)
• Irish: sionagóg f
• Italian: sinagoga (it) f
• Japanese: シナゴーグ (ja) (shinagōgu)
• Judeo-Tat: нумаз (numaz), нимаз (nimaz)
• Kazakh: синагога (sinagoga)
• Khmer: វិហារជ្វីហ្វ (vihiə cviif)
• Korean: 시나고그 (sinagogeu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: کەنیشت (kenîşt)

  Northern Kurdish: kinîşte (ku), sînagog (ku), hewra (ku)

• Kyrgyz: синагога (ky) (sinagoga)
• Ladin: please add this translation if you can
• Ladino:

  Hebrew: קהל m (kal), אסנוגה f (esnoga)

  Roman: kal m, esnoga f, sinagoga f

• Latin: proseucha f
• Latvian: sinagoga f
• Ligurian: scinagöga f
• Lishana Deni: כנשתא (knəšta)
• Lithuanian: sinagoga f
• Lombard: sinagoga (lmo) f
• Macedonian: синаго́га (mk) f (sinagóga), а́вра f (ávra)
• Malay: sinagog (Malaysia, Singapore), sinagoge (Riau & Sumatra), kanisah, saumaah, biah (obsolete)
• Maltese: sinagoga f
• Mongolian:, синагог (sinagog)

  Mongolian: жүүдийн сүм (žüüdiin süm)

• Norman: synnagogue f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: synagoge (no) m

  Nynorsk: synagoge m or f

• Old Armenian: ժողովուրդ (žołovurd)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: сѵнагога f (sünagoga)

• Persian:

  Dari: کَلِیسَا (kalīsā), کُنِشْت (kuništ), کَنِیسَه (kanīsa)

  Iranian Persian: کَنیسِه (kanise)

• Piedmontese: sinagòga f
• Plautdietsch: Judenschool f
• Polish: synagoga (pl) f, bożnica (pl) f
• Portuguese: sinagoga (pt) f, esnoga (pt) f (archaic)
• Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: sinagogă (ro) f
• Russian: синаго́га (ru) f (sinagóga)
• Scottish Gaelic: sionagog f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: синаго́га f

  Roman: sinagóga (sh) f

• Slovak: synagóga (sk) f
• Slovene: sinagoga (sl) f
• Spanish: sinagoga (es) f
• Swahili: sinagogi
• Swedish: synagoga (sv) c
• Tagalog: sinagoga
• Tajik: каниса (kanisa), куништ (kuništ), синагога (sinagoga)
• Tatar: синагога (sinağoğa)
• Thai: สุเหร่ายิว (sù-rào yiu)
• Turkish: sinagog (tr), havra (tr)
• Turkmen: sinagoga
• Ukrainian: синаго́га f (synahóha)
• Urdu: کَنِیسَہ m (kanīsa), کُنِشْت m (kuniśt)
• Uzbek: sinagoga (uz)
• Vietnamese: giáo đường Do thái
• Volapük: sünagog (vo), (older term) sinagöp
• Welsh: synagog m
• West Frisian: synagoge c
• Yiddish: שול (shul), סינאַגאָגע (sinagoge)

Jewish congregation

• Catalan: sinagoga (ca) f
• Dutch: synagoge (nl) f, kehilla f
• Finnish: juutalainen seurakunta
• German: Synagoge (de) f
• Greek: συναγωγή (el) f (synagogí)
• Hebrew: קהילה / קְהִלָּה f (k'hilá)
• Hungarian: zsidó egyházközség
• Ladino:

  Roman: keila

• Macedonian: синаго́га (mk) f (sinagóga)
• Romanian: sinagogă (ro) f
• Russian: синаго́га (ru) f (sinagóga)
• Spanish: sinagoga (es) f

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.na.ɡɔɡ/

• Audio:

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Noun

synagogue f (plural synagogues)

1. synagogue

   Le samedi je vais à la synagogue où mes parents ont grandi.

   On Saturday I go to the synagogue where my parents grew up.

Further reading

• “synagogue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.