mummify

English

Etymology

From mummy +‎ -ify. Compare later French momifier.

Verb

mummify (third-person singular simple present mummifies, present participle mummifying, simple past and past participle mummified)

1. (transitive) To make into a mummy, by preserving a dead body.

   Synonym: mummy (dated)

   Hypernym: embalm

2. (intransitive) To become a mummy.

Derived terms

• mummification
• mummifier
• unmummify

Translations

transitive: to mummify

• Arabic: أَحْنَطَ (ʔaḥnaṭa), حَنَّطَ (ḥannaṭa)
• Bulgarian: мумифицирам (mumificiram)
• Catalan: momificar (ca)
• Czech: mumifikovat (cs)
• Dutch: mummificeren (nl)
• Egyptian: (sdwḫ)
• Finnish: muumioida (fi)
• French: momifier (fr)
• Galician: momificar (gl)
• German: mumifizieren (de)
• Greek: ταριχεύω (el) (tarichévo)
• Hungarian: mumifikál (hu)
• Irish: mumaigh
• Manx: shirg
• Maori: whakapakoko
• Persian: مومیایی کردن (fa) (mumiyâyi kardan)
• Polish: mumifikować (pl)
• Portuguese: mumificar
• Romanian: mumifica (ro), mumifia (ro)
• Russian: муммифицировать (mummificirovatʹ)
• Slovak: mumifikovať
• Spanish: momificar (es)
• Swedish: mumifiera
• Ukrainian: муміфікувати (mumifikuvaty)
• Welsh: mymïo

intransitive: to become a mummy

• Finnish: muumioitua (fi)
• Galician: momificarse
• German: mumifizieren (de)
• Hungarian: mumifikálódik (hu)
• Manx: shirg
• Persian: مومیایی شدن (mumiyâyi šodan)
• Polish: mumifikować się (pl)
• Romanian: mumifica (ro), mumifia (ro)
• Russian: муммифицироваться (mummificirovatʹsja)
• Spanish: momificarse (es)
• Ukrainian: муміфікуватися (mumifikuvatysja)