English
Pronunciation
Noun
death mask (plural death masks)
- A plaster or similar cast of a person's face after death.
- Coordinate term: life mask
1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 68:The cave, abandoned long ago by shepherds, is draped with weird symbols, death masks, amulets and gargoyles.
Translations
a plaster or similar cast
- Arabic: قناع الموت
- Armenian: հետմահու դիմակ (hetmahu dimak)
- Basque: hil mozorro
- Belarusian: пасмяротная маска f (pasmjarótnaja maska)
- Catalan: màscara mortuòria f
- Czech: posmrtná maska f
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: dodenmasker (nl) n
- Esperanto: mortmasko
- Estonian: surimask
- Finnish: kuolinnaamio (fi)
- French: masque mortuaire m, masque funéraire m
- German: Totenmaske (de) f
- Greek: νεκρική μάσκα f (nekrikí máska)
- Hungarian: halotti maszk (hu)
- Icelandic: helgríma
- Indonesian: topeng kematian
- Italian: maschera mortuaria f
- Japanese: デスマスク (ja) (desumasuku), 死面 (ja) (しめん, shimen)
- Korean: 데스마스크 (deseumaseukeu)
- Malay: please add this translation if you can
- Manx: far-eddin vaaish f
- Norwegian: dødsmaske
- Persian: ماسک مرگ
- Polish: maska pośmiertna f
- Portuguese: máscara mortuária f
- Romanian: mască mortuară (ro) f
- Russian: посме́ртная ма́ска (ru) f (posmértnaja máska)
- Slovak: posmrtna maska f
- Spanish: máscara mortuoria f
- Swedish: dödsmask c
- Ukrainian: посмертна маска f (posmertna maska)
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