pyre
pyre · pyres
погребальный костёр
Scheiterhaufen, Feuerstapel
A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burnedA funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
/ˈpaɪɚ/
» The pyre burns the dead, but anxiety burns the living.
Meaning
2 sensesA funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
The villagers built a funeral pyre to honor their dead.
The effigy was set ablaze on the pyre.
Scheiterhaufen
погреба́льный костёрpogrebálʹnyj kostjór
Any heap or pile of combustibles.
Flames rose high from the pyre in the night sky.
Feuerstapel
More definitions
- wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite
Examples
1 sentencesThe pyre burns the dead, but anxiety burns the living.
Translations
7 languagesРусский
By meaning 1
funeral pile:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
funeral pile:
heap of combustibles:
Origin
Learned borrowing from Latin pyra (“pyre, funeral pile”), from Ancient Greek πυρά (purá),Learned borrowing from Latin pyra (“pyre, funeral pile”), from Ancient Greek πυρά (purá), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”). Doublet of fire.
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