دخمه

Borrowed from Persian دخمه (daxme).

دخمه • (dahme)

1. vault, an underground burial chamber for the dead
2. mausoleum, a large stately tomb housing various graves
3. (Zoroastrianism) dakhma, tower of silence
4. Roman candle, a traditional type of firework

• Turkish: dahme

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “dahme”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1078
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “دخمه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 566
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Sepulchrum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1543
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “دخمه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2037
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “دخمه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 892

دخمه • (daxma / daxme) (Tajik spelling дахма)

1. (Zoroastrianism) tower of silence (a low, cylindrical, open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate from exposure and consumption by carrion birds such as vultures, the remaining bones being kept in an ossuary)
2. tomb

• → Azerbaijani: dəxmə
• → Ottoman Turkish: دخمه (dahme)
  • Turkish: dahme
• → Urdu: دخمہ (daxma)
• → Uzbek: daxma

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “دخمه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim