What is learned in the cradle is carried to the tomb.
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Tomb
//tum//
Synonyms for "tomb" (104 found)
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Closest matches (21)
Strong matches (31)
Related words (52)
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1 entriescoordinate
1 entriesderived
16 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
24 entriesShowing 16 of 24 words.
Translations
141 translations across 82 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- varr noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- τύμβος noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Antillean Creole
1 entries- tonm noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Arabic
4 entries- تربة noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- ضَريح noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- ضَرِيح noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- قبر noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Aramaic
1 entries- ܩܲܒ݂ܪܵܐ noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Armenian
1 entries- դամբարան noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Aromanian
2 entries- murmintu noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- tumbã noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- məqbərə noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- məzar noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Bashkir
1 entries- ҡәбер noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Belarusian
2 entries- грабні́ца noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- магі́льня noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Bengali
2 entries- কবর noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- সমাধি noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Bulgarian
1 entries- гробни́ца noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Burmese
1 entries- ဂူ noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Catalan
1 entries- tomba noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Chichewa
1 entries- manda noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 墳墓 /坟墓 noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 墓葬 noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- 墳墓 /坟墓 noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- 宅兆 noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Coptic
1 entries- ⲙϩⲁⲩ noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Czech
1 entries- hrobka noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Danish
2 entries- grav noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- gravkammer noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Dutch
1 entries- tombe noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Egyptian
3 entries- HA-A-t:O1 noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- m-P6-t:pr noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- q:r-s-Q6 noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Esperanto
1 entries- tombo noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Estonian
1 entries- hauakamber noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Faliscan
1 entries- cela noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Finnish
3 entries- hauta noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- hautakammio noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- hautakappeli noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
French
2 entries- tombe noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- tombeau noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Friulian
1 entries- tombe noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Galician
3 entries- sepulcro noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- tumba noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- túmulo noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Georgian
1 entries- საფლავი noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
German
2 entries- Grabmal noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- Gruft noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Greek
2 entries- τάφος noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- ταφικό μνημείο noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- tonm noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Hindi
2 entries- क़ब्र noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- समाधि noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Hungarian
2 entries- sír noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- síremlék noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Ido
1 entries- tombo noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Iranian Persian
4 entries- آرامْگاه noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- قَبْر noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- مَزار noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- مَقْبَرِه noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Irish
1 entries- tuama noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Italian
1 entries- tomba noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Japanese
2 entries- 墓 noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- 墳墓 noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Kazakh
3 entries- мазар noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- мола noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- қабір noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Khmer
2 entries- ផ្នូរ noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- លេណក noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Korean
2 entries- 무덤 noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- 분묘 noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- мүрзө noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Lao
3 entries- ຂຸມຜີ noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- ຂຸມຝັງສົບ noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- ຂຸມເຮ່ວ noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Latin
3 entries- bustum noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- conditorium noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- tumba noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Lower Sorbian
2 entries- krypta noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- rownišćo noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Macedonian
1 entries- гробница noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Malay
1 entries- makam noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Maore Comorian
1 entries- kaɓuri noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Mongolian
1 entries- бунхан noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Māori
2 entries- toma noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- toma tūpāpaku noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Norman
1 entries- sépultuthe noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- mezel noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- gravkammer noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Occitan
1 entries- tomba noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Polish
1 entries- grobowiec noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Portuguese
3 entries- jazigo noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- tumba noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- túmulo noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Romanian
1 entries- mormânt noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Russian
2 entries- гробни́ца noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- склеп noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Sardinian
4 entries- molimentu noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- molumentu noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- morimentu noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- mulimentu noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- grȍbnica noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- гро̏бница noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Slovak
1 entries- hrobka noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Slovene
1 entries- grobnica noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Spanish
2 entries- tumba noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- tumba noun (pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited)
Tajik
4 entries- мазар noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- мазор noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- мақбара noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- қабр noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Tarifit
1 entries- anḍer noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Tetum
1 entries- rate noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Thai
1 entries- ที่ฝังศพ noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Turkish
1 entries- mezar noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Turkmen
2 entries- gubur noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- mazar noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Turoyo
1 entries- ܩܰܘܪܳܐ noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Ugaritic
1 entries- 𐎃𐎌𐎚 noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Ukrainian
1 entries- гробни́ця noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Urdu
4 entries- قَبْر noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- مَدْفَن noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- مَرْقَد noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- مَزار noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Uyghur
1 entries- قەبرە noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Uzbek
2 entries- maqbara noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- qabr noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Vietnamese
3 entries- lăng tẩm noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- mộ noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- phần mộ noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Walloon
1 entries- tombe noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Welsh
2 entries- bedd noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- beddrod noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Yámana
1 entries- wannače noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Zazaki
2 entries- mezel noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- qub noun (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
I wonder who's buried in that tomb.
Source: tatoeba (68722)
"Where is Romeo?" "This way! To the tomb!"
Source: tatoeba (73779)
Marriage is the tomb of life.
Source: tatoeba (238719)
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