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dakhmas

dakhmas is the plural of dakhma.

Meaning of dakhma

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”).

Questions about dakhmas

What is dakhmas the plural of?
Dakhmas is the plural of dakhma.

Words near dakhmas in the dictionary

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

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