mass grave

English

A mass grave in Burgos, Spain

mass grave (plural mass graves)

a grave containing many human corpses, either as the result of natural disaster or war

a grave with many human corpses

Armenian: եղբայրական գերեզման (ełbayrakan gerezman)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 萬人坑 (zh), 万人坑 (zh) (wànrénkēng), 萬人塚 (zh), 万人冢 (zh) (wànrénzhǒng)
Esperanto: amastombejo
Finnish: joukkohauta (fi)
French: (in a war or any other zone of conflict (corpses are anonymous and not put in a coffin) charnier (fr) m; (natural desaster, war, etc. (corpses are put in a coffin and totally or partiallly identified)) fosse commune (fr) f
German: (in a war or any other zone of conflict (corpses are anonymous and not put in a coffin) Massengrab (de) n; (natural desaster, war, etc. (corpses are put in a coffin and totally or partiallly identified)) Sammelgrab n

Japanese: 集団墓地 (しゅうだんぼち, shūdanbochi)
Portuguese: vala coletiva f, cova coletiva f, vala comum (pt) f
Russian: бра́тская моги́ла (ru) f (brátskaja mogíla), ма́ссовое захороне́ние n (mássovoje zaxoronénije)
Spanish: fosa común (es) f
Swedish: massgrav (sv)
Ukrainian: бра́тська моги́ла (uk) f (brátsʹka mohýla)

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