sarcophagus

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• Received-Pronunciation: /sɑːˈkɒfəɡəs/
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• General-American: /sɑɹˈkɑfəɡəs/
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• CMU ARPABET: S AA0 R K AA1 F AH0 G AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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The noun is borrowed from Latin sarcophagus (“grave; sarcophagus; flesh-eating, carnivorous”), from Ancient Greek σᾰρκοφᾰ́γος (sărkophắgos, “sarcophagus; flesh-eating, carnivorous”) (so named from λῐ́θος σᾰρκοφᾰ́γος (lĭ́thos sărkophắgos, literally “flesh-eating stone”) a type of limestone found at Assos in Troas (now Behramkale, Turkey) thought to consume the flesh of corpses, and thus used to make coffins), from σαρκός (sarkós) (the genitive form of σάρξ (sárx, “flesh; body”), from Proto-Indo-European *twerḱ- (“to carve; to cut off, trim”)) + -φάγος (-phágos, suffix meaning ‘eater (of); eating’) (from ἔφαγον (éphagon, “to devour, eat”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bheh2g- (“to allot, distribute; to divide”)). The plural form sarcophagi is borrowed from Latin sarcophagī. The verb is derived from the noun.

75 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: نَاوُوس (nāwūs) — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Armenian: սարկոֆագ (sarkofag) — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Azerbaijani: sarkofaq — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Belarusian: саркафа́г (sarkafáh) — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Bulgarian: саркофа́г (sarkofág) — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Catalan: sarcòfag — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Chavacano: sarcofago — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Chinese Mandarin: 石棺 (shíguān) — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Czech: sarkofág — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Danish: sarkofag — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Dutch: sarcofaag — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Egyptian: nb-anx-n:x-Q6 (nb-ꜥnḫ) — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Egyptian: q:r-s-qs-w-Q6 (qrsw) — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Erzya: кевкандолаз (kevkandolaz) — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Esperanto: sarkofago — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Finnish: sarkofagi — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• French: sarcophage — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Georgian: სარკოფაგი (sarḳopagi) — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• German: Sarkophag — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Greek: σαρκοφάγος (sarkofágos) — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Ancient Greek: σαρκοφάγος (sarkophágos) — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Hebrew: סַרְקוֹפָג (sarkofág) — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Hungarian: szarkofág — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Ido: sarkofago — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Ilocano: sarkopago — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Irish: sarcafagas — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Irish: sarcófagas — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Italian: sarcofago — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Ivatan: sarkopago — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Japanese: 石棺 (sekkan) — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Japanese: サルコファガス (sarukofagasu) — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Kapampangan: sarkopagu — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Kasiguranin: sarkopago — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Kazakh: тастабыт (tastabyt) — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Korean: 사르코파구스 (sareukopaguseu) — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Korean: 석관 (seokgwan) — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Macedonian: саркофаг (sarkofag) — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Norwegian: sarkofag — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Pangasinan: sarkopago — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Persian: تابوتدان (tâbut-dân) — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Phoenician: 𐤀𐤓𐤍 (ʾrn) — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Piedmontese: sarcòfagh — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Polish: sarkofag — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Portuguese: sarcófago — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Romanian: sarcofag — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Russian: саркофа́г (sarkofág) — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Serbo-Croatian: саркофаг — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Serbo-Croatian: sarkofag — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Slovak: sarkofág — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Slovene: sarkofag — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Spanish: sarcófago — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Swedish: sarkofag — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Tagalog: sarkopago — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Tausug: sarkopago — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Thai: โลงหิน (loong-hǐn) — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Turkish: lahit — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Ukrainian: саркофа́г (sarkofáh) — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Vietnamese: quách — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Walloon: sårcô — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Welsh: sarcoffagws — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Welsh: maenarch — stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture
• Belarusian: саркафа́г (sarkafáh) — cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine
• Bulgarian: саркофа́г (sarkofág) — cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine
• Chinese Mandarin: 石棺 (shíguān) — cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine
• Finnish: sarkofagi — cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine
• Greek: σαρκοφάγος (sarkofágos) — cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine
• Hungarian: szarkofág — cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine
• Japanese: 石棺 (sekkan) — cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine
• Korean: 석관 (seokgwan) — cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine
• Polish: sarkofag — cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine
• Portuguese: sarcófago — cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine
• Russian: саркофа́г (sarkofág) — cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine
• Ukrainian: саркофа́г (sarkofáh) — cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine
• Finnish: sarkofagi — 18th-century form of wine cooler
• Finnish: sulkea sarkofagiin — to enclose (a corpse, etc.) in a sarcophagus