"joss stick" meaning in English

See joss stick in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: joss sticks [plural]
Etymology: From joss (“Chinese idol”) + stick. Etymology templates: {{m|en|joss||Chinese idol}} joss (“Chinese idol”), {{m|en|stick}} stick Head templates: {{en-noun}} joss stick (plural joss sticks)
  1. A stick of incense, especially (China Taoism, Buddhism, etc.) those burned as an offering before a Chinese shrine. Wikipedia link: joss stick Categories (topical): Buddhism, Taoism Categories (place): China Synonyms: joss-stick Translations (incense stick): အမွှေးတိုင် (a.hmwe:tuing) (Burmese), (hoeng¹) (Chinese Cantonese), (xiāng) (Chinese Mandarin), suitsuke (Finnish), Räucherstäbchen [neuter] (German), hio (Indonesian), bastoncini di incenso [masculine] (Italian), colok (Malay), tanghas (Tagalog), ธูป (tûup) (Thai)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for joss stick meaning in English (3.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "joss",
        "3": "",
        "4": "Chinese idol"
      },
      "expansion": "joss (“Chinese idol”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "stick"
      },
      "expansion": "stick",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From joss (“Chinese idol”) + stick.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "joss sticks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "joss stick (plural joss sticks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Buddhism",
          "orig": "en:Buddhism",
          "parents": [
            "Religion",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "China",
          "orig": "en:China",
          "parents": [
            "Asia",
            "Earth",
            "Eurasia",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Taoism",
          "orig": "en:Taoism",
          "parents": [
            "China",
            "Religion",
            "Asia",
            "Culture",
            "Earth",
            "Eurasia",
            "Society",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 300",
          "text": "For instance, Hawkins, Lewis, Hankin and Sengupta all cover the word agarbatti, an incense stick or joss stick, but there is no way of knowing when this term was first used in Indian English, nor whether it is now current or obsolete.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A stick of incense, especially (China Taoism, Buddhism, etc.) those burned as an offering before a Chinese shrine."
      ],
      "id": "en-joss_stick-en-noun-bosiE360",
      "links": [
        [
          "stick",
          "stick"
        ],
        [
          "incense",
          "incense"
        ],
        [
          "especially",
          "especially"
        ],
        [
          "Taoism",
          "Taoism"
        ],
        [
          "Buddhism",
          "Buddhism"
        ],
        [
          "those",
          "those"
        ],
        [
          "burn",
          "burn"
        ],
        [
          "offer",
          "offer"
        ],
        [
          "Chinese",
          "Chinese"
        ],
        [
          "shrine",
          "shrine"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "joss-stick"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "my",
          "lang": "Burmese",
          "roman": "a.hmwe:tuing",
          "sense": "incense stick",
          "word": "အမွှေးတိုင်"
        },
        {
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "roman": "hoeng¹",
          "sense": "incense stick",
          "word": "香"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "xiāng",
          "sense": "incense stick",
          "word": "香"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "incense stick",
          "word": "suitsuke"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "incense stick",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Räucherstäbchen"
        },
        {
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "incense stick",
          "word": "hio"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "incense stick",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "bastoncini di incenso"
        },
        {
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "incense stick",
          "word": "colok"
        },
        {
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "incense stick",
          "word": "tanghas"
        },
        {
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "tûup",
          "sense": "incense stick",
          "word": "ธูป"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "joss stick"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "joss stick"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "joss",
        "3": "",
        "4": "Chinese idol"
      },
      "expansion": "joss (“Chinese idol”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "stick"
      },
      "expansion": "stick",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From joss (“Chinese idol”) + stick.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "joss sticks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "joss stick (plural joss sticks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Chinese English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "en:Buddhism",
        "en:China",
        "en:Taoism"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 300",
          "text": "For instance, Hawkins, Lewis, Hankin and Sengupta all cover the word agarbatti, an incense stick or joss stick, but there is no way of knowing when this term was first used in Indian English, nor whether it is now current or obsolete.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A stick of incense, especially (China Taoism, Buddhism, etc.) those burned as an offering before a Chinese shrine."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "stick",
          "stick"
        ],
        [
          "incense",
          "incense"
        ],
        [
          "especially",
          "especially"
        ],
        [
          "Taoism",
          "Taoism"
        ],
        [
          "Buddhism",
          "Buddhism"
        ],
        [
          "those",
          "those"
        ],
        [
          "burn",
          "burn"
        ],
        [
          "offer",
          "offer"
        ],
        [
          "Chinese",
          "Chinese"
        ],
        [
          "shrine",
          "shrine"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "joss stick"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "joss-stick"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "a.hmwe:tuing",
      "sense": "incense stick",
      "word": "အမွှေးတိုင်"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "hoeng¹",
      "sense": "incense stick",
      "word": "香"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xiāng",
      "sense": "incense stick",
      "word": "香"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "incense stick",
      "word": "suitsuke"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "incense stick",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Räucherstäbchen"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "incense stick",
      "word": "hio"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "incense stick",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bastoncini di incenso"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "incense stick",
      "word": "colok"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "incense stick",
      "word": "tanghas"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "tûup",
      "sense": "incense stick",
      "word": "ธูป"
    }
  ],
  "word": "joss stick"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.