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sarcophagus

Hindi sarcophagus का अर्थ हिंदी में
  • प्रस्तर ताबूत
  • शवपेटिका/ताबूत
English sarcophagus meaning in English  •  sarcophagus का अर्थ अंग्रेजी में
Noun
  • A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius>, or Assian stone>, and is said to have been found at Asso
  • A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin.
  • A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as a memorial.
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