Coffin

Etymology
From cofin:, from  cofin:, from  cophinus:, from  κόφινος:.

Pronunciation




Noun

 * 1) An oblong closed box in which a dead person is buried.

Synonyms

 * casket (US)

Derived terms

 * coffinlike
 * coffin nail
 * coffin ride


 * coffin ship
 * encoffin
 * encoffiner


 * encoffinment

Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: труна
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: fèretre, taüt
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 棺材, 棺
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: puusärk
 * Finnish: ruumisarkku, arkku
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: ताबूत
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian: peti jenazah, peti mati,  peti mayat,  keranda
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 관 (棺)


 * Kurdish:
 * Latvian: zārks
 * Lithuanian:
 * Norwegian:, gravkiste
 * Persian: تابوت
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: caixão
 * Romanian: sicriu and
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ciste, ciste-mhairbhe
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ковчег
 * Roman: kovčeg
 * Slovak: rakva
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ataúd, féretro , cajón , urna
 * Tajik:
 * Telugu: శవపేటిక (SavapaeTika)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: труна
 * Urdu: تابوت
 * Vietnamese: quan tài (棺材)
 * Volapük: sark

Verb

 * 1)  To place in a coffin.
 * 2) * 2007, Barbara Everett, "Making and Breaking in Shakespeare's Romances," London Review of Books, 29:6, p. 21:
 * The chest in which she is coffined washes ashore and is brought to the Lord Cerimon.

Synonyms

 * encoffin

Translations

 * Bulgarian: полагам
 * Finnish: laittaa arkkuun
 * German:


 * Icelandic: kistuleggja
 * Japanese: 納棺

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