mass grave

English

A mass grave in Burgos, Spain

Noun

mass grave (plural mass graves)

1. A grave containing many corpses.

Translations

a grave containing many corpses

• Armenian: եղբայրական գերեզման (eġbayrakan gerezman)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 萬人坑／万人坑 (zh) (wànrénkēng), 万人坑 (zh) (wànrénkēng), 萬人塚／万人冢 (zh) (wànrénzhǒng), 万人冢 (zh) (wànrénzhǒng)

• Dutch: massagraf (nl) n, verzamelgraf n
• Esperanto: amastombejo
• Finnish: joukkohauta (fi)
• French: (in a war or any other zone of conflict (corpses are anonymous and not put in a coffin) charnier (fr) m; (natural disaster, war, etc. (corpses are put in a coffin and totally or partially identified)) fosse commune (fr) f
• Georgian: მასიური საფლავი (ka) (masiuri saplavi)
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• German: (in a war or any other zone of conflict (corpses are anonymous and not put in a coffin) Massengrab (de) n; (natural disaster, war, etc. (corpses are put in a coffin and totally or partially identified)) Sammelgrab n
• Italian: fossa comune f
• Japanese: 集団墓地 (しゅうだんぼち, shūdanbochi)
• Portuguese: vala coletiva f, cova coletiva f, vala comum (pt) f
• Russian: бра́тская моги́ла (ru) f (brátskaja mogíla), ма́ссовое захороне́ние n (mássovoje zaxoronénije)
• Spanish: fosa común (es) f
• Swedish: massgrav (sv)
• Ukrainian: бра́тська моги́ла (uk) f (brátsʹka mohýla)

See also

• potter's field