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Etymology
Image:Open coffin.jpg|thumb|right|300px|coffin
From Old French cofin, from Latin cophinus, from Greek κ��ινο� �basket�.

Pronunciation
IPA|/�k�fɪn/
audio|en-us-coffin.ogg|Audio (US)

Noun
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1. An oblong closed box in which a dead person is bury|buried.

Usage notes
The type of coffin with upholstery and a half-open lid (mostly in the United States) is called a casket.

Synonyms
casket (US)

Derived terms
coffin ride

Translations
trans-top|oblong closed box for the dead
Albanian: qivur, arkivol m
Arabic: ARchar|تاب�ت (t�būt)
Catalan: fèretre m, taüt m
Croatian: lijes m
Esperanto: �erko
German: Sarg m
Hungarian: koporsó
Italian: bara f, feretro m
Kurdish: KUchar|دار��ت��ر�
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Latvian: z�rks m
Polish: trumna f
Portuguese: caixão m
Romanian: sicriu f and m
Scottish Gaelic: ciste f, ciste-mhairbhe f
Serbian: kov�eg m
Slovene: krsta f
Spanish: ataúd m, féretro m, cajón m italbrac|Argentina|Chile|Costa Rica|Honduras| Mexico|Paraguay|Uruguay, urna f italbrac|Venezuela
Telugu: శవప��ి� (SavapaeTika?)
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Verb
en-verb

1. transitive To place in a coffin.

#* 2007: The chest in which she is coffined washes ashore and is brought to the Lord Cerimon � Barbara Everett, �Making and Breaking in Shakespeare's Romances�, London Review of Books 29:6, p. 21

Translations
trans-top|to place in a coffin
German: einsargen
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• 2007-11-25 06:04 - AutoFormat - trans link [[Catalan]], trans link [[Telugu]]

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