"immolation" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: immolations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: From Middle English immolacion, from Middle French immolation, from Old French, from Latin immolatio. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|immolacion}} Middle English immolacion, {{der|en|frm|immolation}} Middle French immolation, {{der|en|fro|-}} Old French, {{der|en|la|immolatio}} Latin immolatio Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} immolation (countable and uncountable, plural immolations)
  1. The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Fire Translations (act of immolating): жертвоприношение (žertvoprinošenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), immolació [feminine] (Catalan), 獻祭 /献祭 (xiànjì) (Chinese Mandarin), 供物 (gōngwù) (Chinese Mandarin), uhraus (Finnish), immolation [feminine] (French), inmolación [feminine] (Galician), Aufopferung [feminine] (German), imolação [feminine] (Portuguese), жертвоприноше́ние (žertvoprinošénije) [neuter] (Russian), prinošenje žrtve (Serbo-Croatian), imolacija [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), inmolación [feminine] (Spanish), དམར་མཆོད (dmar mchod) (Tibetan), жертвоприно́шення (žertvoprynóšennja) [neuter] (Ukrainian)
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  2. That which is immolated; a sacrifice. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (that which is immolated): жертвено животно (žertveno životno) (Bulgarian), uhri (Finnish), Opfer [feminine] (German), же́ртва (žértva) [feminine] (Russian), žrtva [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), же́ртва (žértva) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-immolation-en-noun-tI0TFgV5 Disambiguation of 'that which is immolated': 16 84
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: self-immolation Related terms: immolate

Inflected forms

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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "that which is immolated",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "žrtva"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "žértva",
      "sense": "that which is immolated",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "же́ртва"
    }
  ],
  "word": "immolation"
}

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