dakhma

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian دخمه (daxme).

Noun

dakhma (plural dakhmas)

1. (Zoroastrianism) Synonym of tower of silence (“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”)