morgue

Etymology
Borrowed from. The second sense developed from the first, via "a prison examination room", probably with reference to the haughty attitude of the jailers.

Noun

 * 1)  A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
 * 2) A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation,  particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.
 * 3)  The archive and background information division of a newspaper.
 * 1)  The archive and background information division of a newspaper.
 * 1)  The archive and background information division of a newspaper.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: lykhuis, dodehuis
 * Albanian: morg
 * Arabic: مَشْرَحَة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani:, ölüxana, morq
 * Belarusian: морг, мярцве́цкая, трупя́рня, пако́йніцкая
 * Bengali: শবাগার
 * Bulgarian: мо́рга
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan: dipòsit de cadàvers
 * Chinese:
 * Hokkien: 死人厝
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: morgue, lighus
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: kadavrejo
 * Estonian: surnukuur, surnukamber,
 * Faroese: líkhús
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: მორგი
 * German: Leichenhaus, ,
 * Greek:,  ,
 * Gujarati: મોર્ગ
 * Haitian Creole: mòg
 * Hebrew: חֲדַר מֵתִים
 * Hindi: मुर्दाघर, शवगृह
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: rumah mayat
 * Irish: marbhlann
 * Italian:, camera mortuaria
 * Japanese: 霊安所, 遺体安置所, 霊安室, 死体置き場, モルグ, 死体安置所
 * Kazakh: мәйітхана, мүрдехана, өлікхана
 * Khmer: ផ្ទះសព, ឆវគ្រឹះ, សវមន្ទីរ
 * Korean: 영안실(靈安室), 시체공시소(屍體公示所)
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: морг, табыткана, өлүккана, өлүкжай
 * Lao: ຫ້ອງເຢັນ, ເຮືອນເຢັນ, ໂຮງເຢັນ
 * Latin: mortuārium
 * Latvian: morgs
 * Lithuanian: lavoninė, morgas
 * Luhya: emochari
 * Macedonian: мртовечница
 * Malay: rumah mayat
 * Maori: whare tūpāpaku
 * Marathi:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: хүүрийн байшин, оршуулгын, гашуудлын
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: likhus
 * Occitan: mòrga
 * Pashto: مړيځی
 * Persian: مُردِه‌شوی‌خانِه, ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, cameră mortuară
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: мр̀тва̄чница
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:, chumba cha maiti
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: morge
 * Tajik: морг, мурдахона
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: โรงเก็บศพ,
 * Tok Pisin: mog
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: jynaza degişli, morg
 * Ukrainian: морг, покі́йницька, мертве́цька , трупа́рня
 * Urdu: مُردَہ خانَہ
 * Uyghur: جەسەتخانا, ئۆلۈكخانا
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: marwdy, madrodd
 * Yiddish: מאָרג
 * Zulu:

Noun

 * 1) morgue, mortuary place where dead bodies are stored
 * 2) morgue, coldness, disdain, arrogance supercilious attitude

Etymology 1
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Etymology
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