human sacrifice
human sacrifice noun: the killing of one or more human beings as part of a religious ritual.
Noun
human sacrifice (countable and uncountable, plural human sacrifices)
- The killing of one or more human beings as part of a religious ritual.
- A human being killed in this way.
human sacrifice meaning in Tamil, Telugu and Sanskrit
human sacrifice in Tamil
- நரபலி
human sacrifice in Telugu
- the ritual killing of a person
- నరబలి narabali
human sacrifice in Sanskrit
- human sacrifice
- नरबलि narabali
Forms of human sacrifice
| plural | human sacrifices |
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Origin of human sacrifice
From human + sacrifice.
Questions about human sacrifice
- What does human sacrifice mean?
- Human sacrifice means the killing of one or more human beings as part of a religious ritual.
- What is human sacrifice in Tamil?
- Human sacrifice in Tamil is நரபலி. See Human sacrifice meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is human sacrifice?
- Human sacrifice is a noun.
- What is the plural of human sacrifice?
- The plural of human sacrifice is human sacrifices.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: human sacrifice (page history and authors); human sacrifice (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); नरबलि (Sanskrit) (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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