mausoleum

See also: Mausoleum

English

Alternative forms

• mausolæum (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English mausoleum, from Latin Mausōlēum, from Ancient Greek Μαυσωλεῖον (Mausōleîon), from Μαύσωλος (Maúsōlos); named after Mausolus (?–395 BCE), satrap of the Persian empire and ruler of Caria, whose tomb was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌmɔː.zəˈliː.əm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmɔ.səˈli.əm/, enPR: mô'sə-lē'əm, IPA^(key): /-.zəˈ-/, (cot–caught merger) /ˌmɑ.-/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

mausoleum (plural mausoleums or mausolea)

1. A large stately tomb or a building housing such a tomb or several tombs.

   Hypernym: vault

   Holonym: cemetery

   Coordinate terms: crypt, ossuary

2. (by extension) A gloomy, usually large room or building.
   • 2018 December 25, Austin Murphy, “I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon.”, in The Atlantic‎:

     As Amazon reaches maximum ubiquity in our lives (“Alexa, play Led Zeppelin”), as online shopping turns malls into mausoleums, it’s been illuminating to see exactly how a package makes the final leg of its journey.

Derived terms

• mausoleal
• mausolean

Translations

large tomb

Albanian: mauzole (sq) m Arabic: ضَرِيح m (ḍarīḥ), مَرْقَد m (marqad) Armenian: դամբարան (hy) (dambaran) Azerbaijani: məqbərə, mavzoley Belarusian: маўзале́й m (maŭzaljéj) Bengali: মাজার (bn) (majar), মকবরা (bn) (mokbora), সমাধি (bn) (śomadhi) Bulgarian: мавзоле́й (bg) m (mavzoléj) Catalan: mausoleu m Chinese: Mandarin: 陵墓 (zh) (língmù), 墓 (zh) (mù) Czech: mauzoleum n Danish: mausoleum n, gravkapel n Dutch: mausoleum (nl) n Esperanto: maŭzoleo, tombomonumento Estonian: mausoleum (et) Faroese: gravhús n Finnish: mausoleumi (fi) French: mausolée (fr) m Georgian: მავზოლეუმი (mavzoleumi) German: Mausoleum (de) n Greek: μαυσωλείο (el) n (mafsoleío) Hebrew: מָאוּזוֹלֵאוֹם (he) m (mauzoléom) Hindi: मज़ार m (mazār), मक़बरा m (maqbarā), समाधि (hi) (samādhi) Hungarian: mauzóleum (hu) Icelandic: grafhýsi n Indonesian: mausoleum (id) Irish: másailéam m, ula f Italian: mausoleo (it) m Japanese: 霊廟 (ja) (れいびょう, reibyō), 陵 (ja) (みささぎ, misasagi), 陵墓 (ja) (りょうぼ, ryōbo), マウソレウム (mausoreumu) Kazakh: кесене (kesene) Khmer: ស្តូបនីយដ្ឋាន (stoupniiyĕəʼthaan) Korean: 영묘(靈廟) (ko) (yeongmyo), 령묘(靈廟) (ryeongmyo) (North Korea), 묘(墓) (ko) (myo) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: mozole (ku) Kyrgyz: мавзолей (mavzoley) Latvian: mauzolejs m Lithuanian: mauzoliejus m Macedonian: мавзоле́ј m (mavzoléj) Malay: makam (ms) Maori: whare toma Mongolian: Cyrillic: бунхан (mn) (bunxan) Norwegian: Bokmål: mausoleum n, mausolé n, mausole n, gravkapell n Nynorsk: mausoleum n, mausolé n, mausole n, gravkapell n Ottoman Turkish: تربه (türbe), دخمه (dahme) Pashto: آرامګاه m (ārāmgãh) Persian: آرامگاه (fa) (ârâmgâh), مقبره (fa) (maqbare) Polish: mauzoleum (pl) n Portuguese: mausoléu m Romanian: mausoleu (ro) n Russian: мавзоле́й (ru) m (mavzoléj) Scottish Gaelic: taigh-adhlacaidh m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: маузо̀леј m Roman: mauzòlej (sh) m Slovak: mauzóleum n Slovene: mavzolej (sl) m Spanish: mausoleo (es) m Swedish: mausoleum (sv) n, gravhus n or n pl, gravbyggnad c, gravkapell n or n pl Tajik: мавзолей (tg) (mavzoley), оромгоҳ (oromgoh), мақбара (maqbara) Thai: ฮวงซุ้ย (th) (huuang-súi), สุสาน (th) (sù-sǎan), เมาโซเลี่ยม Turkish: anıt mezar (tr), mozole (tr) Turkmen: mawzoleý Ugaritic: 𐎃𐎌𐎚 (ḫšt) Ukrainian: мавзоле́й m (mavzoléj) Urdu: مزار (mazār), مقبرہ m (maqbara) Uzbek: mavzoley (uz), oromgoh (uz) Vietnamese: lăng mộ, lăng tẩm (vi), lăng (vi), tẩm (vi) West Frisian: prealgrêf n Yiddish: מאַווזאָליי n (mavzoley) Zazaki: mezel m, tırb f, qub f

Further reading

• mausoleum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

mausoleum

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mausōlēum, from Ancient Greek Μαυσωλεῖον (Mausōleîon) from Ancient Greek Μαύσωλος (Maúsōlos); named for Mausolus (Μαύσωλος or Μαύσσωλλος), satrap of the Persian empire and ruler of Caria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɑu̯.zoːˈleː.ʏm/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: mau‧so‧le‧um
• Rhymes: -eːʏm

Noun

mausoleum n (plural mausolea or mausoleums, diminutive mausoleumpje n)

1. mausoleum

   Synonym: praalgraf

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

mausoleum

Wikipedia ^no

Alternative forms

• mausolé, mausole

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μαυσωλεῖον (Mausōleîon) from Ancient Greek Μαύσωλος (Maúsōlos); named for Mausolus (Μαύσωλος or Μαύσσωλλος), satrap of the Persian empire and ruler of Caria, via Latin mausoleum.

Noun

mausoleum n (definite singular mausoleet, indefinite plural mausoleer, definite plural mausolea or mausoleene)

1. a mausoleum

References

• “mausoleum” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

mausoleum

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Alternative forms

• mausolé, mausole

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μαυσωλεῖον (Mausōleîon) from Ancient Greek Μαύσωλος (Maúsōlos); named for Mausolus (Μαύσωλος or Μαύσσωλλος), via Latin mausoleum.

Noun

mausoleum n (definite singular mausoleet, indefinite plural mausoleum, definite plural mausolea)

1. a mausoleum

References

• “mausoleum” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

mausoleum

Wikipedia ^sv

Noun

mausoleum n

1. a mausoleum

Declension

Declension of mausoleum

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	mausoleum	mausoleums
	definite	mausoleet	mausoleets
plural	indefinite	mausoleer	mausoleers
	definite	mausoleerna	mausoleernas

References

• mausoleum in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mausoleum in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mausoleum in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)