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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛɹɪəl/
• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛɹiəl/
• IPA^(key): /ˈbɝiəl/

• Audio (New England):

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Noun

burial (countable and uncountable, plural burials)

1. The act of burying; interment

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:interment

Translations

interment

• Armenian: թաղում (hy) (tʻaġum)
• Aromanian: ngrupari f, ngrupãciuni f, murmintari f, ngrupiljari f
• Asturian: entierru m
• Bulgarian: погребение (bg) (pogrebenie)
• Catalan: enterrament m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 埋葬 (zh) (máizàng)

• Dutch: begrafenis (nl) f
• Finnish: hautaus (fi)
• French: enterrement (fr), inhumation (fr), sépulture (fr)
• Galician: enterro (gl) m
• German: Begräbnis (de) n
• Gothic: 𐌿𐍃𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌷 n (usfilh)
• Greek: ταφή (el) f (tafí)

  Ancient: ταφή f (taphḗ)

• Hebrew: קבורה (he) f (k[e]vura)
• Icelandic: greftrun f
• Italian: sepoltura (it), inumazione
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 埋葬 (ja) (まいそう, maisō)
• Latin: illātiō f, sepultūra f
• Maori: tanumanga, tāpukenga, nehunga
• Norman: entèrrement f (Jersey)
• Polish: pogrzeb (pl) m, pochówek (pl) m
• Portuguese: enterro (pt), sepultura (pt), inumação (pt)
• 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

• Spanish: entierro (es) m
• Swahili: mziko
• Swedish: begravning (sv) c
• Volapük: sepülam (vo)
• Walloon: etermint (wa) m