burial

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbɛɹi.əl/
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• General-American: /ˈbɛɹi.əl/
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• US, regional: /ˈbɝi.əl/
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• rhymes with (Received Pronunciation) -ɛɹɪəl
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• rhymes with (General American) -ɛɹiəl
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• CMU ARPABET: B EH1 R IY0 AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English biriel, a backformation from biriels, which was re-interpreted as a plural, itself from from Old English byrġels, from byrġan (“to bury”) + -els. By surface analysis, bury + -al, but originally unrelated to this suffix.

109 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: varrim — interment
• Arabic: دَفْن (dafn) — interment
• Arabic: تَدْفِين (tadfīn) — interment
• Arabic: دفين (dfīn) — interment
• Armenian: թաղում (tʻaġum) — interment
• Aromanian: ngrupari — interment
• Aromanian: ngrupãciuni — interment
• Aromanian: murmintari — interment
• Aromanian: ngrupiljari — interment
• Asturian: entierru — interment
• Azerbaijani: dəfn — interment
• Belarusian: пахава́нне (paxavánnje) — interment
• Belarusian: хаўту́ры (xawtúry) — interment
• Bengali: দাফন (daphon) — interment
• Bulgarian: погребе́ние (pogrebénie) — interment
• Catalan: enterrament — interment
• Central Bikol: paglubong — interment
• Chinese Mandarin: 埋葬 (máizàng) — interment
• Czech: pohřbení — interment
• Czech: pohřeb — interment
• Danish: begravelse — interment
• Dutch: begrafenis — interment
• Esperanto: entombigo — interment
• Estonian: matmine — interment
• Estonian: matus — interment
• Finnish: hautaus — interment
• French: enterrement — interment
• French: inhumation — interment
• French: sépulture — interment
• French: ensevelissement — interment
• Galician: enterro — interment
• Georgian: დაკრძალვა (daḳrʒalva) — interment
• German: Begräbnis — interment
• Gothic: 𐌿𐍃𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌷 (usfilh) — interment
• Greek: ταφή (tafí) — interment
• Ancient Greek: ταφή (taphḗ) — interment
• Hebrew: קְבוּרָה (k'vura) — interment
• Hindi: दफ़न (dafan) — interment
• Hungarian: temetés — interment
• Icelandic: greftrun — interment
• Italian: sepoltura — interment
• Italian: inumazione — interment
• Japanese: 埋葬 (maisō) — interment
• Kapampangan: cutcut — interment
• Kapampangan: kutkut — interment
• Kazakh: жерлеу (jerleu) — interment
• Korean: 매장 (maejang) — interment
• Latin: humātiō — interment
• Latin: illātiō — interment
• Latin: sepultūra — interment
• Macedonian: закоп (zakop) — interment
• Macedonian: погреб (pogreb) — interment
• Māori: tanumanga — interment
• Māori: tāpukenga — interment
• Māori: nehunga — interment
• Mauritian Creole: lanterman — interment
• Middle English: biriel — interment
• Middle English: biryinge — interment
• Norman: entèrrement — interment
• Norwegian Bokmål: begravelse — interment
• Occitan: enterrament — interment
• Oromo: awwaala — interment
• Persian: دفن (dafn) — interment
• Persian: تدفین (tadfin) — interment
• Polish: pogrzeb — interment
• Polish: pochówek — interment
• Portuguese: enterro — interment
• Portuguese: sepultura — interment
• Portuguese: sepultamento — interment
• Portuguese: inumação — interment
• Romanian: înmormântare — interment
• Romanian: îngropare — interment
• Romanian: înhumare — interment
• Romanian: îngropăciune — interment
• Russian: захороне́ние (zaxoronénije) — interment
• Russian: погребе́ние (pogrebénije) — interment
• Russian: по́хороны (póxorony) — interment
• Serbo-Croatian: са̀храна — interment
• Serbo-Croatian: sàhrana — interment
• Slovak: pochovávanie — interment
• Slovak: pohrebisko — interment
• Slovak: pohreb — interment
• Slovak: pochovanie — interment
• Slovene: pokop — interment
• Spanish: entierro — interment
• Spanish: soterramiento — interment
• Spanish: enterramiento — interment
• Spanish: sepultura — interment
• Spanish: sepultamiento — interment
• Spanish: sepelio — interment
• Spanish: inhumación — interment
• Sranan Tongo: beri — interment
• Swahili: mziko — interment
• Swedish: begravning — interment
• Tagalog: libing — interment
• Tajik: дафн (dafn) — interment
• Tamil: அடக்கம் (aṭakkam) — interment
• Thai: งานศพ (ngaan-sòp) — interment
• Turkish: defin — interment
• Ottoman Turkish: كوممه (gömme) — interment
• Ottoman Turkish: تدفین (tedfin) — interment
• Ukrainian: похова́ння (poxovánnja) — interment
• Ukrainian: по́хорон (póxoron) — interment
• Urdu: دفن (dafan) — interment
• Urdu: تدفین (tadfīn) — interment
• Uzbek: dafn — interment
• Vietnamese: mai táng — interment
• Volapük: sepülam — interment
• Walloon: etermint — interment