sky burial

English

Noun

sky burial (countable and uncountable, 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

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)

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