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mass grave

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A grave (in any of the countable senses) containing many corpses.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Across languages

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  • Arabic: مَقْبَرَة جَمَاعِيَّة (maqbara jamāʕiyya) — a grave containing many corpses
  • Armenian: եղբայրական գերեզման (eġbayrakan gerezman) — a grave containing many corpses
  • Azerbaijani: kütləvi məzarlıq — a grave containing many corpses
  • Belarusian: бра́цкая магі́ла (bráckaja mahíla) — a grave containing many corpses
  • Belarusian: братэ́рская магі́ла (bratérskaja mahíla) — a grave containing many corpses
  • Belarusian: ма́савае пахава́нне (másavaje paxavánnje) — a grave containing many corpses
  • Bulgarian: ма́сов гроб (másov grob) — a grave containing many corpses
  • Bulgarian: братска могила (bratska mogila) — a grave containing many corpses
  • Chinese Mandarin: 萬人坑 /万人坑 (wànrénkēng) — a grave containing many corpses
  • Chinese Mandarin: 萬人塚 /万人冢 (wànrénzhǒng) — a grave containing many corpses
  • Chinese Mandarin: 亂葬崗 /乱葬岗 (luànzànggǎng) — a grave containing many corpses
  • Czech: hromadný hrob — a grave containing many corpses
  • Czech: masový hrob — a grave containing many corpses
  • Danish: massegrav — a grave containing many corpses
  • Dutch: massagraf — a grave containing many corpses
  • Dutch: verzamelgraf — a grave containing many corpses
  • Esperanto: amastombejo — a grave containing many corpses
  • Finnish: joukkohauta — a grave containing many corpses
  • Georgian: მასიური საფლავი (masiuri saplavi) — a grave containing many corpses
  • Hebrew: קֶבֶר אַחִים (kéver akhím) — a grave containing many corpses
  • Hungarian: tömegsír — a grave containing many corpses
  • Italian: fossa comune — a grave containing many corpses
  • Japanese: 集団墓地 (shūdanbochi) — a grave containing many corpses
  • Kazakh: туыс бауырластар қабірі (tuys bauyrlastar qabırı) — a grave containing many corpses
  • Khmer: ផ្នូរដ៏ធំ (phnoudɑthum) — a grave containing many corpses
  • Korean: 공동묘지 (gongdongmyoji) — a grave containing many corpses
  • Latvian: brāļu kapi — a grave containing many corpses
  • Macedonian: масовна гробница (masovna grobnica) — a grave containing many corpses
  • Norwegian Bokmål: massegrav — a grave containing many corpses
  • Persian: گور جمعی (gôr-e jam'i) — a grave containing many corpses
  • Polish: mogiła zbiorowa — a grave containing many corpses
  • Portuguese: vala coletiva — a grave containing many corpses
  • Portuguese: cova coletiva — a grave containing many corpses
  • Portuguese: vala comum — a grave containing many corpses
  • Romanian: groapă comună — a grave containing many corpses
  • Russian: бра́тская моги́ла (brátskaja mogíla) — a grave containing many corpses
  • Russian: ма́ссовое захороне́ние (mássovoje zaxoronénije) — a grave containing many corpses
  • Serbo-Croatian: масовна гробница — a grave containing many corpses
  • Serbo-Croatian: masovna grobnica — a grave containing many corpses
  • Slovak: masový hrob — a grave containing many corpses
  • Spanish: fosa común — a grave containing many corpses
  • Swedish: massgrav — a grave containing many corpses
  • Turkish: toplu mezar — a grave containing many corpses
  • Ukrainian: бра́тська моги́ла (brátsʹka mohýla) — a grave containing many corpses
  • Ukrainian: ма́сове захоро́нення (másove zaxorónennja) — a grave containing many corpses
  • Vietnamese: mộ tập thể — a grave containing many corpses
  • Welsh: bedd torfol — a grave containing many corpses