firewall

See also Firewall

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (Can we verify this pronunciation?) IPA: /faɪə.wɔəɫ/
• (UK) IPA: /ˈfaɪ.əˌwɔːl/, X-SAMPA: /"faI.@%wO:/
• (US) IPA: /ˈfaɪ(ə)rˌwɔl/, /ˈfaɪ(ə)rˌwɑl/

Etymology

From fire +‎ wall

Noun

Wikipedia firewall (plural firewalls)

1. A fireproof barrier used to prevent the spread of fire between or through buildings, structures, electrical substation transformers, or within an aircraft or vehicle.
2. (computer security) The software that monitors traffic in and out of a private network or a personal computer and allows or blocks such traffic depending on its perceived threat.

Derived terms

• Great Firewall of China

Translations

fireproof barrier

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
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• Danish: brandmur (da) c
• Dutch: brandmuur (nl)
• Estonian: tulemüür (et)
• Finnish: palomuuri (fi)
• French: mur ignifugé (fr)
• Georgian: ბრანდმაუერი (ka) (brandmaueri)
• German: Brandmauer (de) f, Brandwand (de) f
• Greek: αλεξίπυρο διάφραγμα (el) (alexípyro diáfragma) n
• Hungarian: tűzfal (hu)
• Japanese: 防火壁 (ぼうかへき, bōkaheki)
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Khmer: ជញ្ជាំងភ្លើង (km) (chʊəñcheang pləəng)
• Luhya: please add this translation if you can
• Luo: please add this translation if you can

• Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
• Malagasy: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: tembok api (ms)
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
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• Navajo: please add this translation if you can
• Ojibwe: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: ściana ogniowa (pl) f
• Russian: огненный барьер (ru) (ógnennyj bar’jér) m, брандмауэр (ru) (brandmáuer) m
• Spanish: muro cortafuego (es) m
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: ไฟร์วอลล์ (th) (fai-won), ด่านกันบุกรุก (th) (dàan gan bùkgàrúk)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
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• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

computer software

• Arabic: جدار ناري (ar) (jiraad naariy) m, فايروول (ar) (fayrwuul) m
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  Mandarin: 防火牆 (cmn), 防火墙 (cmn) (fánghuǒqiáng)

• Esperanto: fajroŝirmilo (eo), fajromuro (eo)
• Estonian: tulemüür (et)
• Finnish: palomuuri (fi)
• French: pare-feu (fr) m
• German: Firewall (de) f rarely m, Brandmauer (de) f
• Greek: τείχος προστασίας (el) (teíchos prostasías) n
• Hindi: फ़ायरवॉल (hi) (fāyarvŏl)
• Hungarian: tűzfal (hu)
• Icelandic: eldveggur m
• Irish: balla dóiteáin (ga) m

• Japanese: ファイアーウォール (ja) (faiāwōru)
• Kazakh: желіаралық қалқан (kk) (jeliaralıq qalqan)
• Khmer: ជញ្ជាំងភ្លើង (km) (chʊəñcheang pləəng)
• Korean: 방화벽 (ko) (banghwabyeog) (防火壁 (ko))
• Malay: tembok api (ms)
• Polish: zapora sieciowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: firewall (pt) m
• Russian: межсетевой экран (ru) (mežsetevój ekrán) m, брандмауэр (ru) (brandmáuer) m, файрволл (ru) (fajrvóll) m (colloquial)
• Serbo-Croatian: sigurnosna stijena (sh) f
• Swedish: brandvägg (sv) c
• Thai: ไฟร์วอลล์ (th) (fai-won)
• Turkish: ateş duvarı (tr)
• Vietnamese: tường lửa (vi)

Verb

firewall (third-person singular simple present firewalls, present participle firewalling, simple past and past participle firewalled)

1. (transitive, computer security) To protect with a firewall.
2. (transitive, computer security) To block with a firewall.
3. (intransitive, motor vehicles or aircraft, slang) To use maximum acceleration.