fire extinguisher

See also: fire-extinguisher

English

A fire extinguisher (at the right) placed with a first-aid kit (at the left)

Alternative forms

• fire-extinguisher

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪəɹ ɪkˌstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ.ə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

fire extinguisher (plural fire extinguishers)

1. A device that can be used to put out a fire. Usually a portable cylinder filled with carbon dioxide, dry powder or water, in the latter two cases with some means of pressurising the cylinder to expel the contents.

   Synonym: extinguisher

   Coordinate terms: drencher, sprinkler

Translations

device for putting out a fire

• Afrikaans: brandblusser
• Albanian: zjarrfikës (sq), aparat zjarrfikës
• Arabic: مِطْفَأَةُ حَرِيق f (miṭfaʔatu ḥarīq), طَفَّايَةُ حَرِيق f (ṭaffāyatu ḥarīq)
• Aragonese: extintor m
• Armenian: կրակմարիչ (hy) (krakmaričʻ)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܕܲܥܟ݂ܵܢܝܼܬܵܐ f (mdaʿḵānītā)
• Asturian: estintor m
• Azerbaijani: odsöndürən, söndürücü
• Bashkir: ут һүндергес (ut hünderges)
• Basque: su-itzalgailu, itzalgailu
• Belarusian: вогнетушы́цель m (vohnjetušýcjelʹ)
• Bulgarian: пожа́рогаси́тел (bg) m (požárogasítel)
• Catalan: extintor m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 滅火筒／灭火筒 (mit⁶ fo² tung^4-2), 滅火器／灭火器 (mit⁶ fo² hei³)

  Mandarin: 滅火器／灭火器 (zh) (mièhuǒqì), 熄火器 (zh) (xīhuǒqì), 消火器 (zh) (xiāohuǒqì)

• Chuvash: сунтеркӗч (sunt̬erk̬ĕč)
• Corsican: estintore m, estentore m
• Czech: hasicí přístroj (cs) m, hasičák (cs) m
• Danish: ildslukker (da) c
• Dutch: brandblusser (nl)
• Esperanto: fajroestingilo, fajrestingilo
• Estonian: tulekustuti (et)
• Finnish: sammutin (fi), käsisammutin, palosammutin
• French: extincteur (fr) m
• Friulian: estintôr m
• Galician: extintor m
• Georgian: ცეცხლსაქრობი (cecxlsakrobi)
• German: Feuerlöscher (de) m, Feuerlöschgerät n
• Greek: πυροσβεστήρας (el) m (pyrosvestíras)
• Hebrew: מַטְפֶּה (he) f (matpé)
• Hindi: अग्निशमन यंत्र m (agniśman yantra), अग्निशामक m (agniśāmak)
• Hungarian: tűzoltó készülék, poroltó (hu)
• Icelandic: slökkvitæki n
• Ido: extingilo (io)
• Indonesian: pemadam api (id), pemadam kebakaran (id)
• Interlingua: extinctor
• Irish: múchtóir dóiteáin m, múchtóir tine m
• Italian: estintore (it) m
• Japanese: 消火器 (ja) (しょうかき, shōkaki)
• Kazakh: өртсөндіргіш (örtsöndırgış)
• Korean: 소화기(消火器) (ko) (sohwagi)
• Kumyk: от сёндюрвюч (ot söndürwüç)
• Kyrgyz: от өчүргүч (ot öcürgüc)
• Latvian: ugunsdzēsības aparāts m
• Lithuanian: gesintuvas m
• Luxembourgish: Feierläscher
• Macedonian: противпожарен апара́т m (protivpožaren aparát)
• Malay: pemadam api
• Maltese: pajrin
• Manx: moogheyder aile
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: гал унтраагуул (gal untraaguul)

• Navajo: kǫʼ bee niltsésí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brannslukker m, slokkingsapparat n

• Ossetian: зингхуссӕн (zingxussæn)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: کَپْسولِ آتَش‌نِشانی

• Polish: gaśnica (pl) f
• Portuguese: extintor (pt) m, extintor de incêndio m
• Romanian: extinctor (ro) n, stingător (ro) n
• Romansch: stizzafieu m
• Russian: огнетуши́тель (ru) m (ognetušítelʹ)
• Samoan: tinamū
• Scottish Gaelic: inneal-smàlaidh
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ватрогасни апарат m

  Latin: vatrogasni aparat m

• Slovak: hasiaci prístroj m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wogeńgasak m

  Upper Sorbian: woheńhašak m, hašadło n

• Spanish: extintor (es) m, extinguidor (es) m (Latin America), matafuego (es) m
• Swahili: kizima moto
• Swedish: brandsläckare (sv) c
• Tagalog: pamatay-sunog
• Tajik: сӯхторхомӯшкунак (süxtorxomüškunak), оташхомӯшкунак (otašxomüškunak)
• Tatar: ут сүндергеч (ut sündergeç)
• Tetum: bomba hamate ahi
• Thai: ถังดับเพลิง (tǎng-dàp-pləəng)
• Tongan: me'a tāmate afi
• Turkish: söndürücü (tr), yangın söndürücü (tr)
• Turkmen: söndürücü
• Ukrainian: вогнега́сник (uk) m (vohnehásnyk)
• Uzbek: oʻt oʻchirgich
• Vietnamese: bình chữa cháy, bình cứu hoả
• Welsh: diffoddwr tân m