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dakhma

dakhma 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”).

Noun

dakhma (plural dakhmas)

  1. 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”).

dakhma meaning in Urdu and Gujarati

dakhma in Urdu

dakhma, tower of silence
دخمہ daxma

dakhma in Gujarati

dakhma, tower of silence
દોખમું dokhmũ

Synonyms of dakhma

Forms of dakhma

pluraldakhmas

Origin of dakhma

Borrowed from Persian دخمه (daxme).

Questions about dakhma

What does dakhma mean?
Dakhma means 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”).
What is dakhma in Urdu?
Dakhma in Urdu is دخمہ (daxma). See Dakhma meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is dakhma?
Dakhma is a noun.
What is the plural of dakhma?
The plural of dakhma is dakhmas.

Words near dakhma in the dictionary

  1. Dakes
  2. Dakhini
  3. Dakhinis
  4. Dakhla
  5. Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab
  6. dakhma
  7. dakhmas
  8. Dakhóta
  9. daki
  10. Dakila
  11. dakimakura

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dakhma (page history and authors); دخمہ (Urdu) (page history and authors); દોખમું (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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