دخمه

Borrowed from Persian دخمه (daxme).

دخمه • (dahme)

1. vault, an underground burial chamber for the dead
2. mausoleum, a large stately tomb housing various graves
3. (Zoroastrianism) dakhma, tower of silence
4. Roman candle, a traditional type of firework

• Turkish: dahme

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dahme”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1078
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دخمه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎ (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 566
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• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دخمه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 892

دخمه • (daxme)

1. tomb
2. (Zoroastrianism) dakhma, tower of silence

• → Azerbaijani: dəxmə
• → Ottoman Turkish: دخمه (dahme)
  • Turkish: dahme
• → Urdu: دخمہ (daxma)
• → Uzbek: daxma

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “دخمه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim