burial

English

Alternative forms

• buriall (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English beriel, a re-interpretation of Old English byrġels as a plural, from byrġan (“to bury”) -els.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛɹɪəl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛɹiəl/
• (regional US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɝiəl/

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• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɛɹɪəl, (General American) -ɛɹiəl

Noun

burial (countable and uncountable, plural burials)

1. 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

• See also Thesaurus:interment

Derived terms

• burial at sea
• burial case
• burial chamber
• burial ground
• burial mound
• burial place
• burial plot
• burial site
• burial society
• burial stone
• heart-burial
• mass burial
• multiburial
• natural burial
• preburial
• primary burial
• reburial
• secondary burial
• ship burial
• sky burial
• tree burial
• unburial
• wind burial

 

Translations

interment

• Albanian: varrim (sq) m
• Arabic: دَفْن (ar) m (dafn), تَدْفِين m (tadfīn)

  Moroccan Arabic: دفين (dfīn)

• Armenian: թաղում (hy) (tʻaġum)
• 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
• Esperanto: entombigo
• 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)
• Kapampangan: cutcut (traditional), kutkut (modern)
• Kazakh: жерлеу (jerleu)
• Korean: 매장(埋藏) (ko) (maejang)
• Latin: humātiō f, illātiō f, sepultūra f
• Macedonian: закоп m (zakop), погреб (mk) 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
• Tagalog: libing (tl)
• 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