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A wall of icons between the sanctuary and the nave in an Eastern Orthodox church.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Borrowed from Byzantine Greek εἰκονόστασις (eikonóstasis), from εἰκών (eikṓn, “icon”) + στάσις (stásis, “fixture”).
Across languages
Translations
46 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Albanian:
ikonastasi
— a wall of icons
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Arabic:
حَاجِز الأَيْقُونِيّ
(ḥājiz al-ʔayqūniyy)
— a wall of icons
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Armenian:
պատկերակալ
(patkerakal)
— a wall of icons
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Aromanian:
icunustas
— a wall of icons
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Azerbaijani:
ikonostas
— a wall of icons
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Basque:
ikonostasi
— a wall of icons
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Belarusian:
іканаста́с
(ikanastás)
— a wall of icons
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Bulgarian:
иконоста́с
(ikonostás)
— a wall of icons
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Catalan:
iconòstasi
— a wall of icons
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Chinese Mandarin:
聖像壁 /圣像壁
(shèngxiàngbì)
— a wall of icons
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Chinese Mandarin:
聖障 /圣障
(shèngzhàng)
— a wall of icons
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Czech:
ikonostas
— a wall of icons
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Danish:
ikonostase
— a wall of icons
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Dutch:
iconostase
— a wall of icons
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Esperanto:
ikonostazo
— a wall of icons
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Estonian:
ikonostaas
— a wall of icons
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Finnish:
ikonostaasi
— a wall of icons
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French:
iconostase
— a wall of icons
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Georgian:
კანკელი
(ḳanḳeli)
— a wall of icons
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German:
Ikonostase
— a wall of icons
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Greek:
εικονοστάσιο
(eikonostásio)
— a wall of icons
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Hebrew:
איקונוסטאזיס
(aykonostazis)
— a wall of icons
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Hungarian:
ikonosztáz
— a wall of icons
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Irish:
íocónastáis
— a wall of icons
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Italian:
iconostasi
— a wall of icons
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Japanese:
イコノスタシス
(ikonosutashisu)
— a wall of icons
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Korean:
성화벽
(seonghwabyeok)
— a wall of icons
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Latvian:
ikonostass
— a wall of icons
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Lithuanian:
ikonostasas
— a wall of icons
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Macedonian:
иконостас
(ikonostas)
— a wall of icons
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Norwegian Bokmål:
ikonostasis
— a wall of icons
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
ikonostas
— a wall of icons
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Polish:
ikonostas
— a wall of icons
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Portuguese:
iconóstase
— a wall of icons
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Romanian:
iconostas
— a wall of icons
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Romanian:
tâmplă
— a wall of icons
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Romanian:
catapeteasmă
— a wall of icons
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Russian:
иконоста́с
(ikonostás)
— a wall of icons
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Serbo-Croatian:
иконостас
— a wall of icons
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Serbo-Croatian:
ikonostas
— a wall of icons
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Slovak:
ikonostas
— a wall of icons
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Slovene:
ikonostas
— a wall of icons
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Spanish:
iconostasio
— a wall of icons
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Swedish:
ikonostas
— a wall of icons
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Turkish:
ikonostas
— a wall of icons
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Ukrainian:
іконоста́с
(ikonostás)
— a wall of icons
