Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kapishche

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: kapishche
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A pre-Christian shrine from Slavic cultures, usually in the form of a field, a sacred fire, and an idol of a god.

noun

A shrine or small temple used in Slavic neopaganism.

Etymology

From Russian ка́пище (kápišče), and from Old East Slavic капище (kapišče).

Origin

Source language: Russian

Word Breakdown

Root: ка́пище, капище

Subject

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Inflected Forms

kapishches (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

khram

Questions

What does kapishche mean?: A pre-Christian shrine from Slavic cultures, usually in the form of a field, a sacred fire, and an idol of a god.
Where does kapishche come from?: It is traced to Russian.

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