Would it be sacrilegious to make a chair from a bier?
Source: tatoeba (10522486)
Bier
//bɪɚ//
Synonyms for "bier" (1 found)
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Translations
59 translations across 29 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- φέρετρον noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
Arabic
1 entries- جَنَازَة noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
Czech
2 entries- katafalk noun (platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed)
- máry noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
Dutch
2 entries- baar noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
- lijkbaar noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
Finnish
2 entries- katafalkki noun (platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed)
- ruumispaarit noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
French
3 entries- catafalque noun (platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed)
- civière noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
- lit mortuaire noun (platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed)
Galician
3 entries- cadaleito noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
- catafalco noun (platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed)
- escano noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
German
1 entries- Bahre noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
Hindi
1 entries- अरथी noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
Hungarian
1 entries- ravatal noun (platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed)
Indonesian
1 entries- kereta mayat noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
Irish
1 entries- cróchar noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
Italian
3 entries- barella noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
- catafalco noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
- catafalco noun (platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed)
Macedonian
3 entries- катафа́лка noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
- но́сило noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
- о́дар noun (platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed)
Malay
1 entries- pedati jenazah noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
Māori
2 entries- atamira noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
- puhirere noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
Odia
4 entries- କକୁଆ noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
- କୋକେଇ noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
- ଛଖଣ୍ଡ noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
- ଛଡ଼ାଙ୍ଗିଆ noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- جنازه noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
- جنازه noun (platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed)
Polish
2 entries- katafalk noun (platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed)
- mary noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
Romanian
2 entries- catafalc noun (platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed)
- năsălie noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
Russian
2 entries- катафа́лк noun (platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed)
- похоронные носи́лки noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- giùlan noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- barela noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
- katafalk noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
- katafalk noun (platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed)
- pogrebna kolica noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
Spanish
4 entries- angarillas noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
- camilla noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
- catafalco noun (platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed)
- parihuelas noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
Swahili
1 entries- jeneza noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
Swedish
2 entries- bår noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
- katafalk noun (platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed)
Tagalog
1 entries- patungan ng kabaong noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
Tamil
2 entries- பாடை noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
- பிணக்கட்டில் noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
Welsh
2 entries- elor noun (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
- elor noun (platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
I don’t know why this infant needs a bier.
Source: tatoeba (10522487)
A pallbearer stumbled, causing the casket to tumble off the bier and onto the ground.
Source: tatoeba (10888598)
They bore him bare-faced on the bier.
Source: wiktionary
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