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dakhma

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
dakhma
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of tower of silence (“a low, cylindrical, open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate from exposure and consumption by carrion birds such as vultures, the remaining bones being kept in an ossuary”).

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian دخمه (daxme).

Inflected Forms

dakhmas (plural)

Synonyms

tower of silence

Questions

What does dakhma mean?
Synonym of tower of silence (“a low, cylindrical, open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate from exposure and consumption by carrion birds such as vultures, the remaining bones being kept in an ossuary”).
Where does dakhma come from?
Borrowed from Persian دخمه (daxme).

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