لحد

laḥd, vulg. laḥad (v.n. fr. لحد 'to bury,' etc.), s.f. A place dug in the side of a grave (in which dead bodies are deposited), a sepulchral niche; (in India) a niche or a hollow in which a corpse is washed; (local) a tomb, grave:—laḥad bharnā(-kī), Filling up with earth the hollow in which a corpse has been washed; filling up the grave of a deceased person (a ceremony performed on the twenty-ninth day after interment).