nhà thờ

== Vietnamese == === Etymology === nhà (“house”) +‎ thờ (“to worship”). === Pronunciation === (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ɲaː˨˩ tʰəː˨˩] (Huế) IPA(key): [ɲaː˦˩ tʰəː˦˩] (Saigon) IPA(key): [ɲaː˨˩ tʰəː˨˩] === Noun === (classifier cái, căn, ngôi) nhà thờ • (茹祠) a house of worship Hyponym: thánh đường đóng tiền xây nhà thờ họ ― to contribute to building a family's house of worship Nhà thờ Đức Bà Pa-ri ― the Notre-Dame de Paris (literally, “the Cathedral of Our Lady in Paris”) ==== Usage notes ==== Mainly used of ancestral places of worship, or places of worship in Abrahamic religions. Buddhist places are chùa (“temple”). Other places dedicated to pagan/local deities, such as Shinto shrines or the Parthenon, or to accomplished men in the past, are variously called đền/điện (“temple; shrine”), miếu (“temple”), miễu (“village shrine”), and đình (“village shrine”), not all with consistent usages. Small places of worship, usually built by the sidewalks, can be called am. For "church" in the "denomination" sense, use either giáo hội (“non-evangelical church”) or hội thánh (“evangelical church”).