Funeral Definition
funeral
English
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Pronunciation
Etymology
1437, from Middle French funerailles (“funeral rites”) pl., from Medieval Latin funeralia (“funeral rites”), originally neuter plural of Late Latin funeralis (“having to do with a funeral”), from Latin funere, ablative of funus (“funeral, death, corpse”), origin unknown, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dheu- (“to die”). Singular and plural used interchangeably in English until circa 1700. The adjective funereal is first attested 1725, by influence of Middle French funerail, from Latin funereus, from funus.
Adjective
funeral (not comparable)
- Being related to a ceremony in honor of a deceased person.
Noun
funeral (plural funerals)
- A ceremony to honour of a deceased person.
- No one likes to go to funerals.
Translations
ceremony to honour of a deceased person
- Arabic: جنازة (ar) (janaaza) f.
- Armenian: թաղում (hy) (t'aġum)
- Breton: obidoù pl.
- Bulgarian: погребение (bg) (pogrebeniye) n.
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 葬禮 (cmn), 葬礼 (cmn) (zànglǐ)
- Czech: pohřeb (cs) m.
- Danish: begravelse (da) c., bistættelse (da)
- Dutch: begrafenis (nl) f.
- Finnish: hautajaiset (fi) pl., maahanpano (fi)
- French: funérailles (fr) f. pl., obsèques (fr) f. pl.
- German: Bestattung (de), Beerdigung (de) f., Begräbnis (de) n.
- Greek: κηδεία (el) (kiδía) f.
- Hebrew: לוויה (he) (levayá) f.
- Hindi: क्रिया कर्म (hi) (kriyā-karm) m., (Islam) जनाज़ा (hi) (janāzā) m.
- Icelandic: útför (is)
- Indonesian: pemakaman (id)
- Interlingua: funeral
- Italian: funerale (it) m.
- Japanese: 葬式 (ja) (そうしき, sōshiki), 葬儀 (ja) (そうぎ, sōgi)
- Korean: 장례 (ko) (jangnye)
- Kurdish: چهماوهر
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- Latgalian: bēris
- Latin: nom. funus, gen. funeris
- Latvian: bēres (lv)
- Lithuanian: laidotuvės
- Luxembourgish: Begriefnes (lb) n.
- Norwegian: begravelse (no) m., jordfestelse (no) m.
- Persian: جنازه (fa) (janâze, jenâze)
- Polish: pogrzeb (pl) m.
- Portuguese: funeral (pt) m.
- Romanian: înmormântare (ro) f., îngropare (ro) f., înhumare (ro) f., mormântare (ro) f.
- Russian: похороны (ru) (póxorony) pl., погребение (ru) (pogrebénije) n.
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: са̀храна (sh) f., по̀греб (sh) m., спро̀вод (sh) m., (Islam) џена́за (sh) f.
- Roman: sàhrana (sh) f., pògreb (sh) m., spròvod (sh) m., (Islam) dženáza (sh) f.
- Spanish: funeral (es) m., entierro (es) m.
- Swedish: begravning (sv) c.
- Turkish: cenaze (tr)
- Urdu: کریاکرم (ur) (kriyā-karm) m., جنازہ (ur) (janāzā, jināzā) m.
- Welsh: angladd (cy) m. and f., cynhebrwng (cy) m.
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Spanish
Noun
funeral m. (plural funerales)
- funeral
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A
funeral is a
ceremony for celebrating, sanctifying, or remembering the life of a person who has
died. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a
culture to remember the dead, from interment itself, to various
monuments,
prayers, and
rituals undertaken in their honor. Customs vary widely between cultures, and between
religious affiliations within cultures.
