cremation

See also: crémation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cremātiō, cremātiōnis; equivalent to cremate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹɪˈmeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

cremation (countable and uncountable, plural cremations)

1. 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

• incineration

Derived terms

• aquamation

 

Related terms

• cremate
• cremating
• crematorium
• crematory

 

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: polttohautaus (fi) (cremating the dead); polttaminen (fi) (any burning)
• French: crémation (fr) f
• German: Einäscherung (de) f, Feuerbestattung (de) f, Kremation (de) 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
• 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

Anagrams

• crotamine, manticore