mausoleum

See also: Mausoleum

English

An example of a mausoleum.

Alternative forms

• mausolæum (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English mausoleum, from Latin Mausōlēum, from Ancient Greek Μαυσωλεῖον (Mausōleîon), from Μαύσωλος (Maúsōlos); named after Mausolus (?–395 BCE), satrap of the Persian empire and ruler of Caria, whose tomb was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌmɔː.zəˈliː.əm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmɔ.səˈli.əm/, enPR: mô'sə-lē'əm

• Audio (US):

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Noun

mausoleum (plural mausoleums or mausolea)

1. A large stately tomb or a building housing such a tomb or several tombs.

   Hypernym: vault

   Holonym: cemetery

   Coordinate terms: crypt, ossuary

2. (by extension) A gloomy, usually large room or building.
   • 2018 December 25, Austin Murphy, “I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon.”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     As Amazon reaches maximum ubiquity in our lives (“Alexa, play Led Zeppelin”), as online shopping turns malls into mausoleums, it’s been illuminating to see exactly how a package makes the final leg of its journey.

Derived terms

• mausoleal
• mausolean

Translations

large tomb

• Albanian: mauzole (sq) m
• Arabic: ضَرِيح m (ḍarīḥ), مَرْقَد m (marqad)
• Armenian: դամբարան (hy) (dambaran)
• Azerbaijani: məqbərə, mavzoley
• Belarusian: маўзале́й m (maŭzaljéj)
• Bengali: মাজার (bn) (majar), মকবরা (bn) (mokbora), সমাধি (bn) (śomadhi)
• Bulgarian: мавзоле́й (bg) m (mavzoléj)
• Catalan: mausoleu m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陵墓 (zh) (língmù), 墓 (zh) (mù)

• Czech: mauzoleum n
• Danish: mausoleum n
• Dutch: mausoleum (nl) n
• Esperanto: maŭzoleo, tombomonumento
• Estonian: mausoleum (et)
• Finnish: mausoleumi (fi)
• French: mausolée (fr) m
• Georgian: მავზოლეუმი (mavzoleumi)
• German: Mausoleum (de) n
• Greek: μαυσωλείο (el) n (mafsoleío)
• Hebrew: מָאוּזוֹלֵאוֹם (he) m (mauzoléom)
• Hindi: मज़ार m (mazār), मक़बरा m (maqbarā), समाधि (hi) (samādhi)
• Hungarian: mauzóleum (hu)
• Icelandic: grafhýsi n
• Indonesian: mausoleum (id)
• Irish: másailéam m, ula f
• Italian: mausoleo (it) m
• Japanese: 霊廟 (ja) (れいびょう, reibyō), 陵 (ja) (みささぎ, misasagi), 陵墓 (ja) (りょうぼ, ryōbo), マウソレウム (mausoreumu)
• Kazakh: кесене (kesene)
• Khmer: ស្តូបនីយដ្ឋាន (stoupniiyĕəʼthaan)
• Korean: 영묘(靈廟) (ko) (yeongmyo), 령묘(靈廟) (ryeongmyo) (North Korea), 묘(墓) (ko) (myo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: mozole (ku)

• Kyrgyz: мавзолей (mavzoley)
• Latvian: mauzolejs m
• Lithuanian: mauzoliejus m
• Macedonian: мавзоле́ј m (mavzoléj)
• Malay: makam (ms)
• Maori: whare toma
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: бунхан (mn) (bunxan)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mausoleum n, mausolé n, mausole n

  Nynorsk: mausoleum n, mausolé n, mausole n

• Ottoman Turkish: دخمه (dahme)
• Pashto: آرامګاه m (ārāmgãh)
• Persian: آرامگاه (fa) (ârâmgâh), مقبره (fa) (maqbare)
• Polish: mauzoleum (pl) n
• Portuguese: mausoléu m
• Romanian: mausoleu (ro) n
• Russian: мавзоле́й (ru) m (mavzoléj)
• Scottish Gaelic: taigh-adhlacaidh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: маузо̀леј m

  Roman: mauzòlej (sh) m

• Slovak: mauzóleum n
• Slovene: mavzolej (sl) m
• Spanish: mausoleo (es) m
• Swedish: mausoleum (sv) n
• Tajik: мавзолей (tg) (mavzoley), оромгоҳ (oromgoh), мақбара (maqbara)
• Thai: ฮวงซุ้ย (th) (huuang-súi), สุสาน (th) (sù-sǎan), เมาโซเลี่ยม
• Turkish: anıt mezar (tr), mozole (tr)
• Turkmen: mawzoleý
• Ugaritic: 𐎃𐎌𐎚 (ḫšt)
• Ukrainian: мавзоле́й m (mavzoléj)
• Urdu: مزار (mazār), مقبرہ m (maqbara)
• Uzbek: mavzoley (uz), oromgoh (uz)
• Vietnamese: lăng mộ, lăng tẩm (vi), lăng (vi), tẩm (vi)
• Yiddish: מאַווזאָליי n (mavzoley)
• Zazaki: mezel m, tırb f, qub f

Further reading

• mausoleum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mausōlēum, from Ancient Greek Μαυσωλεῖον (Mausōleîon) from Ancient Greek Μαύσωλος (Maúsōlos); named for Mausolus (Μαύσωλος or Μαύσσωλλος), satrap of the Persian empire and ruler of Caria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɑu̯.zoːˈleː.ʏm/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: mau‧so‧le‧um
• Rhymes: -eːʏm

Noun

mausoleum n (plural mausolea or mausoleums, diminutive mausoleumpje n)

1. mausoleum

   Synonym: praalgraf

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• mausolé, mausole

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μαυσωλεῖον (Mausōleîon) from Ancient Greek Μαύσωλος (Maúsōlos); named for Mausolus (Μαύσωλος or Μαύσσωλλος), satrap of the Persian empire and ruler of Caria, via Latin mausoleum.

Noun

mausoleum n (definite singular mausoleet, indefinite plural mausoleer, definite plural mausolea or mausoleene)

1. a mausoleum

References

• “mausoleum” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• mausolé, mausole

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μαυσωλεῖον (Mausōleîon) from Ancient Greek Μαύσωλος (Maúsōlos); named for Mausolus (Μαύσωλος or Μαύσσωλλος), via Latin mausoleum.

Noun

mausoleum n (definite singular mausoleet, indefinite plural mausoleum, definite plural mausolea)

1. a mausoleum

References

• “mausoleum” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

mausoleum n

1. a mausoleum

Declension

Declension of mausoleum

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	mausoleum	mausoleums
	definite	mausoleet	mausoleets
plural	indefinite	mausoleer	mausoleers
	definite	mausoleerna	mausoleernas

References

• mausoleum in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mausoleum in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mausoleum in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)