dakhma (English, noun)
expansion: dakhma (plural dakhmas)
Senses:
topics: Zoroastrianism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Synonym of 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”).
Forms:
form: dakhmas
tags: plural