pyre

Betekenis (Engels)

1. A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
2. Any heap or pile of combustibles.

Sinonieme

funeral pyre

pile

blaze

funeral pile

burn at the stake

bale-fire

Vertalings

pira

rogo

pira

Scheiterhaufen

pira

bûcher

hoguera

brandstapel

πυρά

rogus

pyra

ölü yakılan odun yığını

foguera

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈpaɪɚ/

Etimologie (Engels)

Learned borrowing from Latin pyra (“pyre, funeral pile”), from Ancient Greek πυρά (purá), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”). Doublet of fire.