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English

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Alternative forms

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• buriall (obsolete)

Etymology

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From Middle English beriel, a backformation from Old English byrġels, which was re-interpreted as a plural, itself from byrġan (“to bury”) + -els. By surface analysis, bury +‎ -al, but originally unrelated to this suffix.

Pronunciation

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɛɹɪəl/
• (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɛɹiəl/
• (regional US) IPA(key): /ˈbɝiəl/

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• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɛɹɪəl, (General American) -ɛɹiəl

Noun

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English Wikipedia has an article on:burialWikipedia

burial (countable and uncountable, plural burials)

1. The act of burying; interment; placing remains into the earth. His whole family was present at his burial. The mourners listened as the priest performed the burial service of long-time parishioner Wendy Stuart.
   • 1912, George Leo de St. M. Watson, Sir Robert Thomas Wilson, A Polish Exile with Napoleon, page 276:A dreary year for the Squadron, this 1819, when officers and men fell sick by the shipload and were sent home by the tenderful, when Lemon Valley Hospital was supplemented by the one at High Peak, when Court-Martials were held at the rate of one a fortnight, burials thrice a week, and surveys on foul provisions every other day!
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 206:However, many Cromlechs and Dolmins are carelessly called "Druid's circles", when in reality they were the burial places of ancient chieftains and their households[.]

Synonyms

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• See also Thesaurus:interment

Derived terms

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• burial at sea
• burial case
• burial chamber
• burial ground
• burial mound
• burial place
• burial plot
• burial site
• burial society
• burial stone
• green burial
• heart-burial
• mass burial
• multiburial
• natural burial
• preburial
• primary burial
• reburial
• secondary burial
• ship burial
• sky burial
• tree burial
• unburial
• wind burial

Translations

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Albanian: varrim (sq) m Arabic: دَفْن (ar) m (dafn), تَدْفِين m (tadfīn) Moroccan Arabic: دفين (dfīn) Armenian: թաղում (hy) (tʻaġum) Aromanian: ngrupari f, ngrupãciuni f, murmintari f, ngrupiljari f Asturian: entierru m Azerbaijani: dəfn (az) Belarusian: пахава́нне n (paxavánnje), хаўту́ры f pl (xawtúry) Bengali: দাফন (bn) (daphon) Bulgarian: погребе́ние (bg) n (pogrebénie) Catalan: enterrament m Chinese: Mandarin: 埋葬 (zh) (máizàng) Czech: pohřbení n, pohřeb (cs) m Danish: begravelse (da) c Dutch: begrafenis (nl) f Esperanto: entombigo Estonian: matmine, matus Finnish: hautaus (fi) French: enterrement (fr), inhumation (fr), sépulture (fr), ensevelissement (fr) m Galician: enterro (gl) m Georgian: დაკრძალვა (daḳrʒalva) German: Begräbnis (de) n Gothic: 𐌿𐍃𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌷 n (usfilh) Greek: ταφή (el) f (tafí) Ancient Greek: ταφή f (taphḗ) Hebrew: קְבוּרָה (he) f (k'vura) Hindi: दफ़न m (dafan) Hungarian: temetés (hu) Icelandic: greftrun f Italian: sepoltura (it), inumazione Japanese: 埋葬 (ja) (まいそう, maisō) Kapampangan: cutcut (traditional), kutkut (modern) Kazakh: жерлеу (jerleu) Korean: 매장(埋藏) (ko) (maejang) Latin: humātiō f, illātiō f, sepultūra f Macedonian: закоп m (zakop), погреб (mk) m (pogreb) Māori: tanumanga, tāpukenga, nehunga Norman: entèrrement f (Jersey) Norwegian: Bokmål: begravelse (no) m Occitan: enterrament (oc) m Oromo: awwaala Persian: دفن (fa) (dafn), تدفین (fa) (tadfin) Polish: pogrzeb (pl) m, pochówek (pl) m Portuguese: enterro (pt) m, sepultura (pt) f, sepultamento (pt) m, inumação (pt) f 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 Latin: sàhrana (sh) f Slovak: pochovávanie n, pohrebisko n, pohreb (sk) m, pochovanie n Slovene: pokop (sl) m Spanish: entierro (es) m, soterramiento (es) m, enterramiento (es) m, sepultura (es) f, sepultamiento m, sepelio (es) m (formal), inhumación f Sranan Tongo: beri Swahili: mziko Swedish: begravning (sv) c Tagalog: libing (tl) Tajik: дафн (tg) (dafn) Tamil: அடக்கம் (ta) (aṭakkam) Thai: งานศพ (th) (ngaan-sòp) Turkish: defin (tr) Ottoman Turkish: كوممه (gömme), تدفین (tedfin) Ukrainian: похова́ння n (poxovánnja), по́хорон m (póxoron) Urdu: دفن m (dafan), تدفین (tadfīn) Uzbek: dafn (uz) Vietnamese: mai táng (vi) Volapük: sepülam (vo) Walloon: etermint (wa) m

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