"pyre" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈpaɪɚ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pyre.wav Forms: pyres [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ) Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin pyra (“pyre, funeral pile”), from Ancient Greek πυρά (purá), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”). Doublet of fire. Etymology templates: {{dercat|en|grk-pro|ine-pro}}, {{lbor|en|la|pyra|t=pyre, funeral pile}} Learned borrowing from Latin pyra (“pyre, funeral pile”), {{der|en|grc|πυρά}} Ancient Greek πυρά (purá), {{dbt|en|fire}} Doublet of fire Head templates: {{en-noun}} pyre (plural pyres)
  1. A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned. Categories (topical): Fire, Funeral Translations (funeral pile): πυρά (purá) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), клада (klada) [feminine] (Bulgarian), pira [feminine] (Catalan), 火葬用的柴堆 (Chinese Mandarin), hranice [feminine] (Czech), ild (Danish), brandstapel [masculine] (Dutch), tuleriit (Estonian), hautarovio (Finnish), rovio (Finnish), bûcher [masculine] (French), Scheiterhaufen [masculine] (German), πυρά (pyrá) [feminine] (Greek), चिता (citā) [masculine] (Hindi), máglya (Hungarian), breocharn [masculine] (Irish), pira [feminine] (Italian), rogo (Italian), rogus [masculine] (Latin), pyra [feminine] (Latin), ചിത (cita) (Malayalam), likbål [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), ād [masculine] (Old English), stos pogrzebowy [masculine] (Polish), pira [feminine] (Portuguese), rug [neuter] (Romanian), погреба́льный костёр (pogrebálʹnyj kostjór) [masculine] (Russian), pogrebna lòmača [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), hranica [feminine] (Slovak), pira [feminine] (Spanish), bål [neuter] (Swedish), చితి (citi) (Telugu), چتا (citā) [masculine] (Urdu), coelcerth [feminine] (Welsh)
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  2. Any heap or pile of combustibles.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: funeral pyre Related terms: empyreal, empyrean, pyr-, pyral, pyro- Translations (heap of combustibles): kokko (Finnish), rovio (Finnish), Feuerstapel [masculine] (German), bål [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), lomača [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), bål [neuter] (Swedish), kase [common-gender] (Swedish)
Disambiguation of 'heap of combustibles': 45 55

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      "_dis1": "45 55",
      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "heap of combustibles",
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    "Terms with Irish translations",
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      "word": "empyrean"
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        {
          "text": "For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare.—Homer Iliad, p. 31"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "klada",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "клада"
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    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "pira"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "word": "火葬用的柴堆"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hranice"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "word": "ild"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "brandstapel"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "word": "tuleriit"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "word": "hautarovio"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "word": "rovio"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bûcher"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Scheiterhaufen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "pyrá",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "πυρά"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "purá",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "πυρά"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "citā",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "चिता"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "word": "máglya"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "breocharn"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pira"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "word": "rogo"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rogus"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pyra"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "cita",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "word": "ചിത"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "likbål"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ād"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "stos pogrzebowy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pira"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "rug"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pogrebálʹnyj kostjór",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "погреба́льный костёр"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pogrebna lòmača"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hranica"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pira"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "bål"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "citi",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "word": "చితి"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "citā",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "چتا"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "funeral pile",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "coelcerth"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "heap of combustibles",
      "word": "kokko"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "heap of combustibles",
      "word": "rovio"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "heap of combustibles",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Feuerstapel"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "heap of combustibles",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "bål"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "heap of combustibles",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lomača"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "heap of combustibles",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "bål"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "heap of combustibles",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "kase"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pyre"
}

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