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dokhma

dokhma is the alternative form 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”).

Forms of dokhma

pluraldokhmas

Questions about dokhma

What is dokhma the alternative form of?
Dokhma is the alternative form of dakhma.

Words near dokhma in the dictionary

  1. dokdas
  2. doke
  3. dokes
  4. Dokeses
  5. dokha
  6. dokhma
  7. dokhmas
  8. dokhona
  9. dokhonas
  10. doki
  11. Dokimaion

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