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Meaning of dakhma | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

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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”).

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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