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sarcophagus meaning in Kannada

ಕಲ್ಲಿನ ಹೆಣದರೆ

/sɑːˈkɒfəɡəs/US/sɑɹˈkɑfəɡəs/

sarcophagus in Kannada: ಕಲ್ಲಿನ ಹೆಣದರೆ. In English, sarcophagus means a stonen coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture.

Kannada words for sarcophagus

ಕಲ್ಲಿನ ಹೆಣದರೆ

English meaning of sarcophagus

  1. noun A stonen coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture.
  2. noun The cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine.
  3. noun A type of wine cooler (“a piece of equipment used to keep wine chilled”) shaped like a sarcophagus (sense 1).
  4. noun A kind of limestone used by the Ancient Greeks for coffins, so called because it was thought to consume the flesh of corpses.

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Questions about sarcophagus in Kannada

What is the meaning of sarcophagus in Kannada?
Sarcophagus in Kannada is ಕಲ್ಲಿನ ಹೆಣದರೆ.
sarcophagus ಪದದ ಕನ್ನಡ ಅರ್ಥ ಏನು?
Sarcophagus: ಕಲ್ಲಿನ ಹೆಣದರೆ.
What does sarcophagus mean in English?
Sarcophagus means a stonen coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture.

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Kannada words from Kannada Wiktionary: sarcophagus (page history and authors). English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: sarcophagus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Kannada words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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