mummification

English

Etymology

mummy +‎ -fication

Pronunciation

Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

mummification (plural mummifications)

The preserving of a dead body, by making it into a mummy.

Hypernyms

embalming

Related terms

mummify

Translations

the making of a dead body into a mummy to preserve it

Bulgarian: мумуфициране n (mumuficirane)
Catalan: momificació f
Dutch: mummificatie (nl) f, mummificering f
French: momification (fr) f
Galician: momificación (gl) f
Hungarian: mumifikálás (hu)
Maori: whakapakokotanga
Polish: mumifikacja (pl) f, mumifikowanie (pl) n
Portuguese: mumificação f
Russian: мумификация (ru) f (mumifikacija)
Spanish: momificación f
Swedish: mumifiering c, mumifikation c

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