gompa
noun
gompa is a noun meaning “A Buddhist ecclesiastical fortification of learning, lineage and sadhana in Tibet, India, Nepal, or Bhutan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-O-M-P-A, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of gompa is gompas.
What does gompa mean?
noun
- 1
A Buddhist ecclesiastical fortification of learning, lineage and sadhana in Tibet, India, Nepal, or Bhutan.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of gompa
- gompas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is gompa?
Gompa appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Gompa in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Buddhist fortification of learning:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | gompa |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does gompa come from?
Borrowed from Tibetan དགོན་པ (dgon pa).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).