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हिन्दी — अंग्रेजी

शवपेटिका/ताबूत — sarcophagus (Noun)

प्रस्तर ताबूत — sarcophagus (Noun)

प्रस्तर ताबूत — sarcophagus (Noun)

English ↔ Hindi

sarcophagus — प्रस्तर ताबूत

English → English

Sarcophagus — A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia.

Sarcophagus — A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin.

Sarcophagus — A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as a memorial.