No musician would have thought of playing that music at the funeral.
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Funeral
//ˈfjuː.nə.ɹəl//
Synonyms for "funeral" (60 found)
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Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (18)
Related words (30)
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4 entriesRelated terms
7 entriescauses
1 entriescauses desire
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37 entriesShowing 16 of 37 words.
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1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
10 entriesTranslations
168 translations across 95 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- begrafnis noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- janaza (Moesliemafrikaans) noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Albanian
2 entries- funeral noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- varrmihje noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κηδεία noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Arabic
4 entries- جنازة noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- جَنَازَة noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- دَفْن noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- عزا noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Aramaic
1 entries- לווייתא noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Armenian
2 entries- թաղում noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- հոգեհանգիստ noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
1 entries- ܠܘܼܘܵܝܵܐ noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Asturian
1 entries- funeral noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- cənazə noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- dəfn noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Belarusian
2 entries- пахава́нне noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- хаўту́ры noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Bengali
1 entries- জানাজা noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Breton
1 entries- obidoù noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Bulgarian
1 entries- погребе́ние noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Burmese
3 entries- ဈာပန noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- မသာ noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- အသုဘ noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Catalan
2 entries- funeral noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- funerals noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Cebuano
1 entries- lubong noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- چەماوەر noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 喪事 /丧事 noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- 葬禮 /葬礼 noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 喪事 /丧事 noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- 葬禮 /葬礼 noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Czech
1 entries- pohřeb noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Danish
2 entries- begravelse noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- bistættelse noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Dari
2 entries- جَنَازَه noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- دَفْن noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Dutch
1 entries- begrafenis noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Esperanto
2 entries- enterigiro noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- funebro noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Estonian
2 entries- matus noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- matused noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Faroese
2 entries- gravarferð noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- jarðarferð noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Finnish
1 entries- hautajaiset noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
French
2 entries- funérailles noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- obsèques noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Galician
2 entries- cabodano noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- funeral noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Georgian
1 entries- დაკრძალვა noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
German
3 entries- Beerdigung noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- Begräbnis noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- Bestattung noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Greek
1 entries- κηδεία noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Gujarati
3 entries- અંત્યેષ્ટિ noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- જનાજો noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- દફનક્રિયા noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Hebrew
4 entries- הלוויה noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- הלויה noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- לְוָיָה noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- לוויה noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Hindi
3 entries- अंत्येष्टि noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- क्रियाकर्म noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- जनाज़ा noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Hungarian
2 entries- gyászszertartás noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- temetés noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Icelandic
2 entries- jarðarför noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- útför noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Ido
1 entries- funero noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Indonesian
1 entries- pemakaman noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Ingrian
3 entries- hautajaiset noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- mätökset noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- peittäjäiset noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Interlingua
1 entries- funeral noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Iranian Persian
3 entries- جَنازِه noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- جِنازِه noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- دَفْن noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Irish
1 entries- sochraid noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Italian
1 entries- funerale noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Japanese
2 entries- 葬儀 noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- 葬式 noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Kazakh
2 entries- жерлеу noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- қою noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Khmer
2 entries- បុណ្យខ្មោច noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- ពិធីបុណ្យសព noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Korean
3 entries- 장례 noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- 장례식 noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- 장사 noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Krio
1 entries- bɛrin noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- тажия noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Lao
1 entries- ການປົງສົບ noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Latgalian
1 entries- bēris noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Latin
1 entries- fūnus noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Latvian
1 entries- bēres noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Lithuanian
1 entries- laidotuvės noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Begriefnes noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Macedonian
2 entries- погреб noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- погребување noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Malay
2 entries- pemakaman noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- pengebumian noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Maltese
1 entries- funeral noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Mongolian
1 entries- оршуулга noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Māori
2 entries- tangihanga noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- uhunga noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Navajo
1 entries- yóóʼ eʼelnééh noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- cenaze noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- begravelse noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- jordfestelse noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Old English
1 entries- līcþeġnung noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Oromo
1 entries- sirna awaalaa noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- جنازه noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Pashto
1 entries- جنازه noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Persian
2 entries- جَنَازَه noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- دَفْن noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Bejrafniss noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Polish
1 entries- pogrzeb noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Portuguese
1 entries- funeral noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Romanian
4 entries- mormântare noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- îngropare noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- înhumare noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- înmormântare noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Russian
2 entries- по́хороны noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- погребе́ние noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Sanskrit
2 entries- अन्त्यक्रिया noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- अन्त्येष्टि noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- dženáza noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- pògreb noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- spròvod noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- sàhrana noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Slovak
1 entries- pohreb noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Slovene
1 entries- pogreb noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Spanish
1 entries- funeral noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Swahili
2 entries- maziko noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- mazishi noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Swedish
1 entries- begravning noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Tagalog
1 entries- burol noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Tajik
2 entries- дафн noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- ҷаноза noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Tatar
1 entries- җеназа noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Thai
1 entries- งานศพ noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Turkish
3 entries- cenaze noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- defin noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- yuğ noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Turkmen
1 entries- jynaza noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Ukrainian
3 entries- по́хорон noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- погре́б noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- похова́ння noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Urdu
4 entries- تَجْہِیز و تَکْفِین noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- جَنازَہ noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- دَفْن noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- کِرْیا کَرْم noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Uyghur
2 entries- ئۇزىتىش مۇراسىمى noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- دەپنە مۇراسىمى noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Uzbek
2 entries- dafn noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- dafn marosimi noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Vietnamese
3 entries- lễ tang noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- đám ma noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- đám tang noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Walloon
1 entries- etermint noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Welsh
2 entries- angladd noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
- cynhebrwng noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Yiddish
1 entries- לוויה noun (ceremony to honour a deceased person)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
That's your funeral.
Source: tatoeba (42483)
The lady's funeral was held at the local church.
Source: tatoeba (44270)
At the funeral, the widow looked very dignified, with her black suit, hat and gloves.
Source: tatoeba (64262)
Showing 4 of 16 available sentences.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.