tower of silence

Etymology


, from the fact that human voices are generally not heard at such places.

Noun

 * 1)  A low, cylindrical, open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate from exposure and consumption by carrion birds such as vultures, the remaining bones being kept in an ossuary.

Translations

 * Arabic: بُرْج الصَّمْت
 * Armenian: լռության աշտարակ
 * Azerbaijani: dəxmə
 * Basque: isiltasunaren dorreak
 * Bulgarian: кули на мълчанието, дакма
 * Catalan: torre del silenci
 * Czech: věže mlčení
 * Esperanto: silentoturo
 * Estonian: vaikuse torn
 * Finnish: hiljaisuuden torni
 * French:
 * German: Dachma
 * Greek: πύργος της σιωπής
 * Hebrew: מגדלי שתיקה
 * Hindi:
 * Indonesian: menara kesunyian
 * Italian: torre del silenzio
 * Japanese: 沈黙の塔, ダフマ
 * Korean: 침묵의 탑
 * Macedonian: ку́ла на тиши́ната, да́хма
 * Malay: dakhma, menara bungkam
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: dakhma
 * Ottoman Turkish: دخمه
 * Persian:
 * Polish: dakhma, wieża milczenia
 * Portuguese: torre do silêncio
 * Russian: башня молчания,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman: tóranj šutnje
 * Spanish: torre del silencio
 * Swedish: dakhma, tystnadens torn
 * Tajik: дахма
 * Tamil: அமைதியின் கோபுரம்
 * Thai: แดฆแมฮ์
 * Turkish: dahme
 * Ukrainian: вежа мовчання, дахме
 * Urdu: دخمہ
 * Uzbek: