English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of sarcophagus

sarcophagus

/noun/ पत्थर की बनी हुई कब्र; सार्कोंफेगस; पत्थर का ताबूत; शव के लिए पत्थर का बक्स; कब्र जिस पर संगतराशी का

Synonym cist;

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English Dictionary:

1. Sarcophagus

[n.]

- 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.
- A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin.
- A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as a memorial.