English
Noun
sky burial (plural sky burials)
- A funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed atop a mountain to decompose or be eaten by scavenging animals.
Hypernyms
Translations
a Tibetan funeral practice
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 天葬 (tin1 zong3)
- Mandarin: 天葬 (zh) (tiānzàng)
- Dutch: luchtbegrafenis, hemelbegrafenis
- French: inhumation céleste f
- German: Himmelsbestattung f
- Hebrew: קבורת שמים
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- Indonesian: pemakaman langit
- Italian: sepoltura celeste f
- Japanese: 鳥葬
- Persian: خاکسپاری آسمانی
- Polish: pogrzeb powietrzny m
- Spanish: entierro celestial m
- Tibetan: (please verify)བྱ་གཏོར་ (bya gtor)
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