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From Middle English cofin, from Old Northern French cofin (“sarcophagus", earlier "basket, coffer”), from Latin cophinus (“basket”), from Ancient Greek κόφινος (kophinos, “a basket”).
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coffin (plural coffins)
- An oblong closed box in which a dead person is buried.
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The type of coffin with upholstery and a half-open lid (mostly in the United States) is called a casket.
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oblong closed box for the dead
- Albanian: qivur (sq), arkivol (sq) m.
- Arabic: تابوت (ar) (taabuut) m.
- Armenian: դագաղ (hy) (dagaġ)
- Azeri: tabut (az)
- Belarusian: труна (be) (truná) f.
- Bulgarian: ковчег (bg) (kovčég) m.
- Catalan: fèretre m., taüt m.
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 棺材 (zh) (guāncai), 棺 (zh) (guān)
- Croatian: lijȇs (hr) m.
- Czech: rakev (cs) f.
- Dutch: doodskist (nl)
- Esperanto: ĉerko (eo)
- Estonian: puusärk (et)
- Finnish: ruumisarkku (fi), arkku (fi)
- French: cercueil (fr) m.
- German: Sarg (de) m.
- Greek: φέρετρο (el) (féretro) n.
- Hindi: ताबूत (hi) (tābūt) m.
- Hungarian: koporsó (hu)
- Icelandic: líkkista (is) f., kista (is) f.
- Indonesian: peti jenazah (id), peti mati (id), peti mayat (id), keranda (id)
- Italian: bara (it) f., feretro (it) m., cassa da morto (it) f.
- Japanese: 棺 (ja) (ひつぎ, hitsugi)
- Korean: 관 (ko) (gwan) (棺 (ko))
- Kurdish: دارهتهرم
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- Latvian: zārks m.
- Lithuanian: karstas (lt) m.
- Neapolitan: tauto m.
- Norwegian: kiste (no) m. and f., gravkiste (no) m. and f.
- Persian: تابوت (fa) (tâbut)
- Polish: trumna (pl) f.
- Portuguese: caixão m.
- Romanian: sicriu (ro) n., (regional) coșciug (ro) n.
- Russian: гроб (ru) (grob) m.
- Scottish Gaelic: ciste f., ciste-mhairbhe f.
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ковчег (sh) m.
- Roman: kovčeg (sh) m.
- Slovak: rakva (sk) f.
- Slovene: krsta (sl) f.
- Spanish: ataúd m., féretro m., cajón m. (Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Uruguay), urna f. (Venezuela)
- Swedish: kista (sv) c.
- Tagalog: kabaong (tl)
- Tajik: тобут (tg) (tobut)
- Telugu: శవపేటిక (SavapaeTika)
- Turkish: tabut (tr)
- Ukrainian: труна (uk) (truná) f.
- Urdu: تابوت (ur) (tābūt) m.
- Vietnamese: quan tài (vi) (棺材 (vi))
- Volapük: sark (vo)
- Walloon: waxhea (wa) m., lujhea (wa) m.
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coffin (third-person singular simple present coffins, present participle coffining, simple past and past participle coffined)
- (transitive) To place in a coffin.
- 2007, Barbara Everett, "Making and Breaking in Shakespeare's Romances," London Review of Books, 29:6, p. 21:
- The chest in which she is coffined washes ashore and is brought to the Lord Cerimon.
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