sky burial

sky burial

English

Noun

sky burial (countable and uncountable, plural sky burials)

1. A funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed atop a mountain to decompose or be eaten by scavenging animals.

Hypernyms

• excarnation

Translations

funeral practice

Chinese: Cantonese: 天葬 (tin1 zong3) Mandarin: 天葬 (zh) (tiānzàng) Dutch: luchtbegrafenis, hemelbegrafenis Dzongkha: please add this translation if you can Finnish: taivashautaus French: inhumation céleste f German: Himmelsbestattung f Hebrew: קבורת שמים‎ Indonesian: pemakaman langit

Italian: sepoltura celeste f Japanese: 鳥葬 Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Nepali: please add this translation if you can Persian: خاکسپاری آسمانی‎ Polish: pogrzeb powietrzny m Sikkimese: please add this translation if you can Spanish: entierro celestial m Tibetan: (please verify) བྱ་གཏོར (bya gtor)