"dakhma" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: dakhmas [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian دخمه (daxme). Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|fa|دخمه|tr=daxme}} Borrowed from Persian دخمه (daxme) Head templates: {{en-noun}} dakhma (plural dakhmas)
  1. (Zoroastrianism) Synonym of tower of silence (“a low, cylindrical, open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate from exposure and consumption by carrion birds such as vultures, the remaining bones being kept in an ossuary”). Synonyms: tower of silence [synonym, synonym-of]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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