Burial in Malayalam
ശവസംസ്കാരം (shavasamskaaram) is the word for a burial or funeral, used in obituaries and official notices alike. It names the whole rite rather than the act of lowering the body. സെമിത്തേരി (semitheri) is the cemetery where it takes place.
Most common translation
Burial, funeral.
ശവസംസ്കാരം ഇന്നു വൈകുന്നേരം നടന്നു.
shavasamskaaram innu vaikunneram nadannu.
The funeral took place this evening.
All Malayalam words for “burial”
- ശവസംസ്കാരം (shavasamskaaram) — Burial, funeral.
- സമാധി (samaadhi) — Deep meditation, death (of sages, ascetics and holy persons), burial, tomb (of holy persons).
- അടക്കം (adakkam) — Humility, secret, the whole, burial of the dead, contents.
- കബര് (kabar) — (Arab). burial ground, grave.
- പട്ടട (pattada) — Burial ground, cremation ground, graveyard, funeral pyre.
- സെമിത്തേരി (semitheri) — Cemetery, burial ground.
ശവസംസ്കാരം (shavasamskaaram) is the rite; സെമിത്തേരി (semitheri), കബര് (kabar) and പട്ടട (pattada) are burial or cremation grounds, സമാധി (samaadhi) the tomb of a holy person, and അടക്കം (adakkam) burial among several other senses.
Common questions
How do you say burial in Malayalam?
ശവസംസ്കാരം (shavasamskaaram).
What is a burial ground called?
സെമിത്തേരി (semitheri) for a cemetery; കബര് (kabar) is the Arabic-derived term.