kirkegård
Danish
Etymology
Old Norse kirkjugarðr, equivalently kirke (“church”) + gård (“yard”).
Noun
kirkegård c (singular definite kirkegården, plural indefinite kirkegårde)
- cemetery, graveyard
- 2012, Lars Halskov, Jacob Svendsen, Et land i krig, Politikens Forlag, →ISBN:
- Oppe på bakken bag den muslimske kirkegård […]
- Up on the hill, behind the Muslim cemetery […]
- 2008, Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Mette Haakonsen, Memento mori: døden i Danmark i tværfagligt lys:
- På den muslimske kirkegård opstilles ikke store monumenter, hvilket ellers er almindeligt hos nogle muslimske grupper, […]
- On the Muslim cemetery, large monuments are not erected, which is otherwise normal in some Muslim groups, […]
- 2007, Erik Haaest, Hipofolk: Lorenzengruppen danske terrorister i nazitiden, →ISBN:
- […] det ældgamle, indiske dødstegn, som kan ses på ethvert buddhistisk tempel eller ditto kirkegård i Østen.
- […] the ancient Indian sigil of death [the swastika] which can be seen in any Buddhist temple or Buddhist cemetery in the East.
- 1998, Gyldendals religionsleksikon: religion/livsanskuelse, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN, page 498:
- Bevægelsens hovedsæde er Koya-bjerget sydøst for Kyoto, med stor kirkegård og Kukais mausoleum, et yndet valfartssted.
- The capital of the movement [Shingon] is the Koya mountain south-east of Kyoto, with a large cemetery and Kukai's mausoleum, a popular destination for pilgrims.
Usage notes
Despite its etymology, this word is also sometimes used for cemeteries not associated with a church, or with a religion other than Christianity; gravplads (“grave-place”) and begravelsesplads (“burial-place”) are examples of religiously neutral terms.
Declension
Declension of kirkegård
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | kirkegård | kirkegården | kirkegårde | kirkegårdene |
genitive | kirkegårds | kirkegårdens | kirkegårdes | kirkegårdenes |
References
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /çɪrkəɡoːr/, /çɪrkəɡoːɽ/
- Rhymes: -oːr, -oːɽ
Noun
kirkegård m (definite singular kirkegården, indefinite plural kirkegårder, definite plural kirkegårdene)
Synonyms
See also
- kyrkjegard (Nynorsk)
References
- “kirkegård” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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