ABuddhisttemple in Southeast Asia, especially those in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.
There are twowats near this village.
AngkorWat
1857, Sir John Bowring,The kingdom and people of Siam, volume 1, page165:
Having at last got past the crowd of boats, we advanced rapidly for two hours more, when we stopped at awat, in order to give the men a rest.
1982, Carlo Caldarola,Religions and societies, Asia and the Middle East, page379:
Aside from its religious function in the community, thewat also performs a large variety of social functions.
1996, James Bissett Pratt,The Pilgrimage of Buddhism and a Buddhist Pilgrimage, page194:
It would be a mistake, however, to emphasize the Hindu element in Cambodian Buddhism and Cambodian temples. At its greatest it is always a subordinate element and in most of thewats or temples it hardly appears at all,[…]
1999, Steve Van Beek with Luca Invernizzi,The arts of Thailand, page15:
It is often possible to discern the motivation or importance of awat by examining its name
2003, Joshua Eliot with Jane Bickersteth,Thailand handbook, page268:
The ubosoth is in a small enclosure just before the main entrance to thewat, on the right, which has fine gilded doors. Thewat has a small museum.
Although found in the native lects throughout northern and western Germany, the use ofwat in colloquial standard German is most typical of the West (chieflyNorth Rhine-Westphalia andRhineland-Palatinate). It is also heard in some parts of northern and north-eastern Germany, e.g. in and aroundBerlin. In all these regions, the formswat andwas are used in free variation.
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The reduced forms with an apostrophe areenclitic; they immediately follow verbs or conjunctions.Dü is deleted altogether in such contexts.
Et is not enclitic and can stand in any unstressed position; the full subject formhat is now rarely used. Inreflexive use, only full object forms occur.
The dual forms are dated, but not obsolete as in other dialects.
Independent possessives are distinguished from attributive ones only with plural referents.
