Pyre

Noun

 * 1) A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
 * For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare. - Homer Iliad, p. 31
 * 1) Any heap or pile of combustibles.

Thesaurus
backfire, balefire, beacon, beacon fire, blaze, bonfire, burning, burning ghat, campfire, cheerful fire, combustion, conflagration, corposant, cozy fire, crackling fire, cremation, crematory, death fire, fen fire, fire, flame, flashing point, flicker, flickering flame, forest fire, fox fire, funeral pile, funeral pyre, ignis fatuus, ignition, incineration, ingle, lambent flame, marshfire, open fire, prairie fire, raging fire, reduction to ashes, sea of flames, sheet of fire, signal beacon, smudge fire, three-alarm fire, two-alarm fire, watch fire, wildfire, witch fire

Etymology
pyra:, from πῦρ:, from.

fire:.

Translations

 * Croatian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: brandstapel
 * Finnish: hautajaisrovio, rovio
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,


 * Latin: ,
 * Polish: stos pogrzebowy
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: చితి (chiti)

Anagrams

 * prey, rype