a ajunge la export –
to go to export

a-i crește grădinița
pe piept – to have the garden growing on one’s chest

a face macii roșii la
colțul gurii – to have red poppies in the corner of one’s mouth

a face pneumonie – to
catch a pneumonia

a-și frânge gâtul –
to break one’s neck

a se îmbolnăvi de
deces – to get sick with death

a-l lua Aghiuță –
to be taken by Aghiuta (imaginary character from the Romanian
folklore considered spirit of evil, main enemy of God, although its
name comes from aghios which means “saint” in Greek)

a-l lua mama dracului –
to be taken by devil’s mother

a o mierli – to die,
gypsy expression, apparently comes from the blackbird (mierla)

glonțul rece – the
cold bullet

a se prăji la lumânare
– to get burnt by the candle

a-l pupa măsa rece–
to be kissed by one’s mother while cold

a se răci – to get
cold

a-i rămâne (cuiva)
ciolanele undeva – to have one’s bones left somewhere

a-l strânge Dumnezeu
de pe pământ – to be taken by God from the earth

a-i suna ceasul – to
hear the bell ringing

a trece în lumea
drepților – to pass into the righteous world

a-l vedea ăl-de-Sus –
to see the Almighty

a vedea pe dracul –
to see the devil

a-si da sufletul –
give one’s soul away

a-si da ultima suflare-
give one’s last breath away

a sufla in lumanare –
blow the candle

a trece Styxul –
cross the Styx (Greek mythology – underworld river of the death)

a fi oale si ulcele –
become pots and mugs, equivalent of dead and buried

a trece in
nemurire/vesnicie – become immortal/eternal

a porni pe ultimul drum
– take the last journey

a-si pleca pleoapele –
close one’s eyelids

Another Irish one: “Ni bheidh a leitheid ann aris”. It means “we wont see his likes again”. Can be used in a range of different circumstances.

BW,

Kieran,

Dr Kieran Walsh

Here
is a contribution fro Professor
D Prabhakaran,
a Tamil speaker and executive
director of the Centre
for Chronic Disease Control
and professor of chronic disease epidemiology, Public Health
Foundation of India

In
Tamil two phrases are common:

“Integrated
into a period” and “disappeared.

I
also found three words commonly used to denote death with explanation
from Google search

In Tamil there are three words for ‘death’. They are 1) irappu 2)
chavu 3) maranam.

1)Irappu

In the view of Tamils, life begins with conception; the conceived
embryo is called karu (pronounced like current+voodoo) which takes
form ie body ,called vuru (wooden+ruthless). Vuru+Vuyir (no English
word to correctly represent vuyir:nearest approximation is life) leads
to pirappu-coming into the world with life.Now, it follows that irappu
is departing from the world, shedding life.Pirappu is taking form with
life; irappu is losing form shedding life.Tamils had a scientific
thinking in such matters and even vowels are called vuyir letters and
consonants mei letters (Body letters).A mei letter can live by a vowel
ie vuyir letter only!Incidentally Irappu is a noun only.

2)Chavu

The term chavu refers to the state of no life.It is opposed to the
state of life.There is a saying in Tamil Chettha pambai adippathu pola
which means Its like killing a dead snake.The actual implication of
the word chettha (which is a past participle of chavu ) is more than
just dead.It implies the absence of all attributes of active life.This
term is also used with reference to non-human living things like
animals,snakes, insects etc(The word maranam is never used for
non-human references).The opposite of chavu isvazhvu which roughly
means life in English.However this term vazhvu is used for both human
and non-human lives.

3)Maranam

Maranam is the event of death.As mentioned earlier this term is used
only for human beings. This term is a noun but can be used as an
adjective by just trimming the last sound.For eg: marana seithi means
death news .Maranam adaindhan means he died.

A common Japanese euphemism is 他界 = [gone to the] other world, although there are plenty of ordinary words for dying too (死亡、死去、死ぬ etc.) depending on the degree of formality required. Others include 事切れる (‘things run out’) or 成仏 (‘to become a Buddha’).

Another feature of Japanese is the special terms used only for the death of the Emperor (in theory they could be used for other members of the Imperial Family), such as 崩御 or お隠れになる, which is a very polite way of saying ‘to become hidden’ (originally ‘… in the clouds’).

The Chinese Book of Rites specified different death words for all ranks of society: 崩 for the emperor, 薨 for nobles, 卒 for gentry, 不禄 for governors and 死 for commoners.

Japanese and Chinese have many well-known linguistic taboos connected with death, e.g. the number 4 is often avoided because it sounds similar to the most common word for death.

berpulang – has gone home
meninggal(kan) dunia – has left this world
mendahului – has gone ahead [of us]
menutup mata – has closed his/her eyes
menghembuskan nafas terakhir – has breathed his/her last
tutup usia – closed his/her age

Hengky
http://www.indolingua.net