"sky burial" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: sky burials [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} sky burial (countable and uncountable, plural sky burials)
  1. A funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed atop a mountain or other outdoor structure to decompose or be eaten by scavenging animals. Wikipedia link: sky burial Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Burial Synonyms: wind burial Related terms: aranga Translations (funeral practice): aasvoëlbegrafnis (Afrikaans), lugbegrafnis (Afrikaans), 天葬 (tin¹ zong³) (Chinese Cantonese), 天葬 (tiānzàng) (Chinese Mandarin), luchtbegrafenis (Dutch), hemelbegrafenis (Dutch), taivashautaus (Finnish), inhumation céleste [feminine] (French), Himmelsbestattung [feminine] (German), קבורת שמים (Hebrew), pemakaman langit (Indonesian), sepoltura celeste [feminine] (Italian), 鳥葬 (Japanese), خاکسپاری آسمانی (Persian), pogrzeb powietrzny [masculine] (Polish), entierro celestial [masculine] (Spanish), བྱ་གཏོར (bya gtor) (Tibetan)

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