tower of silence

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌtaʊɚ‿əv ˈsaɪl(ə)ns/
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• General-American: /ˌtaʊɚ‿əv ˈsaɪləns/
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• rhymes with -aɪləns
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Calque of French tour du silence, from the fact that human voices are generally not heard at such places.

48 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: بُرْج الصَّمْت (burj aṣ-ṣamt) — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Armenian: լռության աշտարակ (lṙutʻyan aštarak) — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Azerbaijani: dəxmə — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Basque: isiltasunaren dorreak — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Bulgarian: кули на мълчанието (kuli na mǎlčanieto) — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Bulgarian: дакма (dakma) — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Catalan: torre del silenci — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Czech: věže mlčení — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Esperanto: silentoturo — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Estonian: vaikuse torn — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Finnish: hiljaisuuden torni — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• French: tour du silence — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• German: Dachma — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Greek: πύργος της σιωπής (pýrgos tis siopís) — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Gujarati: દખમું (dakhmũ) — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Gujarati: દોખમું (dokhmũ) — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Hebrew: מגדלי שתיקה — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Hindi: दखमा (dakhmā) — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Indonesian: menara kesunyian — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Italian: torre del silenzio — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Japanese: 沈黙の塔 (chinmokunotō) — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Japanese: ダフマ — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Korean: 침묵의 탑 (chimmugui tap) — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Latin: turris silentii — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Macedonian: ку́ла на тиши́ната (kúla na tišínata) — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Macedonian: да́хма (dáhma) — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Malay: dakhma — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Malay: menara bungkam — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Norwegian Bokmål: dakhma — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Persian: دخمه (daxme) — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Polish: dakhma — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Polish: wieża milczenia — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Portuguese: torre do silêncio — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Russian: башня молчания (bašnja molčanija) — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Russian: да́хма (dáxma) — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Serbo-Croatian: tóranj šutnje — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Spanish: torre del silencio — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Swedish: dakhma — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Swedish: tystnadens torn — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Tajik: дахма (daxma) — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Tamil: அமைதியின் கோபுரம் (amaitiyiṉ kōpuram) — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Thai: แดฆแมฮ์ — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Turkish: dahme — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Ottoman Turkish: دخمه (dahme) — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Ukrainian: вежа мовчання (veža movčannja) — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Ukrainian: дахме (daxme) — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Urdu: دخمہ (daxma) — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate
• Uzbek: daxma — low, cylindrical open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate