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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English beriel, a re-interpretation of Old English byrġels as a plural, from byrġan (“to bury”) + -els.
Pronunciation
Noun
burial (countable and uncountable, plural burials)
- The act of burying; interment; placing remains into the earth
His whole family was present at his burial.
The mourners listened as the priest performed the burial service of long-time parishioner Wendy Stuart.
Synonyms
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Translations
interment
- Albanian: varrim (sq) m
- Arabic: دَفْن (ar) m (dafn), تَدْفِين m (tadfīn)
- Moroccan Arabic: دفين (dfīn)
- Armenian: թաղում (hy) (tʿaġum)
- Aromanian: ngrupari f, ngrupãciuni f, murmintari f, ngrupiljari f
- Asturian: entierru m
- Azerbaijani: dəfn (az)
- Belarusian: пахава́нне n (paxavánnje), хаўту́ры f pl (xaŭtúry)
- Bengali: দাফন (bn) (daphon)
- Bulgarian: погребе́ние (bg) n (pogrebénie)
- Catalan: enterrament m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 埋葬 (zh) (máizàng)
- Czech: pohřbení n, pohřeb (cs) m
- Danish: begravelse (da) c
- Dutch: begrafenis (nl) f
- Estonian: matmine, matus
- Finnish: hautaus (fi)
- French: enterrement (fr), inhumation (fr), sépulture (fr), ensevelissement (fr) m
- Galician: enterro (gl) m
- Georgian: დაკრძალვა (daḳrʒalva)
- German: Begräbnis (de) n
- Gothic: 𐌿𐍃𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌷 n (usfilh)
- Greek: ταφή (el) f (tafí)
- Ancient: ταφή f (taphḗ)
- Hebrew: קְבוּרָה (he) f (k'vura)
- Hindi: दफ़न m (dafan)
- Hungarian: temetés (hu)
- Icelandic: greftrun f
- Italian: sepoltura (it), inumazione
- Japanese: 埋葬 (ja) (まいそう, maisō)
- Kazakh: жерлеу (jerleu)
- Korean: 매장(埋藏) (ko) (maejang)
- Latin: humātiō f, illātiō f, sepultūra f
- Macedonian: закоп m (zakop), погреб m (pogreb)
- Maori: tanumanga, tāpukenga, nehunga
- Norman: entèrrement f (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: begravelse (no) m
- Occitan: enterrament (oc) m
- Oromo: awwaala
- Persian: دفن (fa) (dafn), تدفین (fa) (tadfin)
- Polish: pogrzeb (pl) m, pochówek (pl) m
- Portuguese: enterro (pt) m, sepultura (pt) f, sepultamento m, inumação (pt) f
- Romanian: înmormântare (ro) f, îngropare (ro) f, înhumare (ro) f, îngropăciune (ro) f (popular)
- Russian: захороне́ние (ru) n (zaxoronénije), погребе́ние (ru) n (pogrebénije), по́хороны (ru) f pl (póxorony)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: са̀храна f
- Roman: sàhrana (sh) f
- Slovak: pochovávanie n, pohrebisko n, pohreb (sk) m, pochovanie n
- Slovene: pokop (sl) m
- Spanish: entierro (es) m, soterramiento (es) m, enterramiento (es) m, sepultura (es) f, sepultamiento m, sepelio (es) m (formal), inhumación f
- Sranan Tongo: beri
- Swahili: mziko
- Swedish: begravning (sv) c
- Tajik: дафн (tg) (dafn)
- Thai: งานศพ (th) (ngaan-sòp)
- Turkish: defin (tr)
- Ukrainian: похова́ння n (poxovánnja), по́хорон m (póxoron)
- Urdu: دفن m (dafan), تدفین (tadfīn)
- Uzbek: dafn (uz)
- Vietnamese: mai táng (vi)
- Volapük: sepülam (vo)
- Walloon: etermint (wa) m
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