English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cremātiō, cremātiōnis; equivalent to cremate + -ion.
Pronunciation
Noun
cremation (countable and uncountable, plural cremations)
- A burning; especially the act or practice of cremating the dead, burning a corpse.
Cremation removes a significant amount of "closure" from the process of death.
Synonyms
Translations
burning; especially the act or practice of cremating the dead, burning a corpse
- Afrikaans: verassing, lykverbranding, kremasie
- Bulgarian: изгаряне n (izgarjane), кремация f (kremacija)
- Burmese: ဈာပန (my) (jhapa.na.)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 火葬 (zh) (huǒzàng)
- Czech: kremace (cs) f
- Danish: kremering c, ligbrænding c
- Dutch: crematie (nl) f, lijkverbranding (nl) f, verassing (nl) f
- Esperanto: kremacio
- Finnish: polttaminen (fi); polttohautaus (fi)
- French: crémation (fr) f
- German: Einäscherung (de) f, Feuerbestattung (de) f, Kremation f, Kremierung (de) f, Leichenverbrennung (de) f (corpse)
- Greek: αποτέφρωση (el) f (apotéfrosi)
- Hebrew: משרפה \ מִשׂרָפָה (he) f (misrafá)
- Hungarian: hamvasztás (hu)
- Icelandic: bálför f
- Irish: créamadh m
- Italian: cremazione (it) f
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- Japanese: 火葬 (ja) (かそう, kasō)
- Korean: 화장(火葬) (ko) (hwajang), 소각 (ko) (sogak)
- Latin: cremātiō f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kremasjon m, kremering m or f, likbrenning m or f
- Nynorsk: kremasjon m, kremering f, likbrenning f
- Polish: kremacja (pl) f, ciałopalenie (pl) n
- Portuguese: cremação (pt) f
- Romanian: incinerare (ro) f, cremațiune (ro) f
- Russian: крема́ция (ru) f (kremácija)
- Slovak: kremácia f
- Spanish: cremación (es) f
- Swedish: likbränning (sv) c, kremering (sv) c, kremation (sv) c, eldbegängelse (sv) c
- Thai: ฌาปนกิจ (th) (chaa-bpà-ná-gìt)
- Turkish: kremasyon
- Ukrainian: крема́ція f (kremácija)
- Vietnamese: sự hoả táng (vi) (sự (vi) + 火葬)
- Volapük: fefilükam, funifefilükam (corpse)
- Welsh: amlosgiad m, darlosgiad m, corfflosgiad m
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