Etymology
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fire + work
Pronunciation
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firework (plural fireworks)
- A device using gunpowder and other chemicals which, when lit, emits a combination of coloured flames, sparks, whistles or bangs, and sometimes made to rocket high into the sky before exploding, used for entertainment or celebration.
Commercial firework displays are commonly launched from boats or other vessels
1776, Robert Jones, John Muller, “Sect. I. Saltpetre.”, in Artificial Fireworks, Improved to the Modern Practice, from the Minutest to the Highest Branches; [...] Also, Mr. Muller's Fireworks, for Sea and Land Service, [...], 2nd corr. edition, London: Printed for J. Millan, near Whitehall, →OCLC, page 1:Saltpetre being the principal ingredient in fireworks, and a volatile body, by reaſon of its aqueous and aërial parts, is eaſily rarified by fire; but not ſo ſoon when foul and groſs, as when purified from its crude and earthy parts, which greatly retard its velocity: therefore, when any quantity of Fireworks are to be made, it ſhould be examined; for if it is not well cleanſed, and of a good ſort, your works will not have their proper effect; […]
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exploding device
- Albanian: fishekzjarr (sq) m
- Arabic: أَلْعَاب نَارِيَّة f pl (ʔalʕāb nāriyya), مُفَرْقِعَات pl (mufarqiʕāt)
- Gulf Arabic: چراغي m (čarraġi)
- Hijazi Arabic: طَرَاطِيع m pl (ṭarāṭīʕ)
- Armenian: հրավառություն (hy) (hravaṙutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: fişəng (az), atəşfəşanlıq
- Basque: suziri
- Belarusian: феерве́рк m (fjejervjérk)
- Bengali: আতশবাজি (bn) (atośbaji)
- Breton: tan-arvest m
- Bulgarian: фойерве́рк (bg) m (fojervérk)
- Burmese: မီးရှူးမီးပန်း (my) (mi:hru:mi:pan:)
- Catalan: for d'artifici m, foc d'artifici m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 煙花/烟花 (jin1 faa1)
- Mandarin: 煙火/烟火 (zh) (yānhuǒ)
- Czech: ohňostroj (cs) m
- Danish: fyrværkeri n
- Dutch: vuurwerk (nl) n
- Esperanto: artfajraĵo
- Estonian: ilutulestik, tulevärk
- Faroese: fýrverk n, skreyteldur m, eldverk n
- Finnish: ilotulite (fi), ilotulitus (fi)
- French: feu d’artifice (fr) m
- Georgian: ფეიერვერკი (peierverḳi), ფოიერვერკი (poierverḳi)
- German: Feuerwerkskörper (de) m
- Greek: πυροτέχνημα (el) n (pyrotéchnima)
- Hebrew: זיקוקי די-נור m (ziquqêi di-nur)
- Hindi: आतिशबाज़ी m (ātiśbāzī), आतशबाजी (hi) f (ātaśbājī), पटाखा (hi) m (paṭākhā), पटाका (hi) m (paṭākā)
- Hungarian: tűzijáték (hu), tűzijátékszer, tűzijátéktermék, tűzijáték-rakéta
- Icelandic: (used in plural) flugeldar (is) n pl
- Indonesian: kembang api (id)
- Irish: tine ealaíne f
- Italian: fuoco d'artificio m, fuoco artificiale (it) m
- Japanese: 花火 (ja) (はなび, hanabi)
- Kazakh: нұршашу (nūrşaşu), отшашу (otşaşu)
- Khmer: កាំជ្រួច (km) (kamcruəc), កញ្ជ្រួច (kɑñcruəc)
- Korean: 불꽃놀이 (bulkkonnori), 불꽃 (ko) (bulkkot)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: agirbazî (ku) f
- Kyrgyz: фейерверк (ky) (feyerverk)
- Lao: ດອກໄມ້ໄຟ (dǭk mai fai)
- Latvian: uguņošana f
- Ligurian: fêugo artifiçiâle m
- Lithuanian: fejerverkas m
- Macedonian: огномет m (ognomet)
- Malay: bunga api (ms)
- Manx: chentag f
- Maori: pahūahi, tiripapā
- Mongolian: галын наадам (galyn naadam)
- Norwegian: fyrverkeri
- Ottoman Turkish: فشك (fişek)
- Persian: آتشبازی (fa) (âtaš-bâzi)
- Pohnpeian: anapi
- Polish: fajerwerk (pl) m
- Portuguese: fogo de artifício (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਆਤਸ਼ਬਾਜ਼ੀ (pa) f (ātaśbāzī)
- Romanian: artificiu (ro) n, foc de artificiu n
- Russian: фейерве́рк (ru) m (fejervérk)
- Scottish Gaelic: cleas-teine m, teine-ealain m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ватромет m
- Roman: vatromet (sh) m
- Sicilian: (mainly at plural) casteḍḍu di focu m, focu (scn) m
- Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
- Slovak: ohňostroj m
- Slovene: ognjemet (sl) m, raketa (sl) f
- Spanish: fuego artificial m
- Swedish: fyrverkeripjäs (sv) c
- Tajik: тарфбозӣ (tarfbozī), оташи тарф (otaši tarf)
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Thai: ดอกไม้ไฟ (th) (dɔ̀ɔk-máai-fai), พลุ (th) (plú)
- Tibetan: ཤོག་སྦག (shog sbag)
- Turkish: havai fişek (tr)
- Turkmen: feýerwerk
- Ukrainian: феєрве́рк m (fejervérk), вогнегра́й m (vohnehráj)
- Urdu: آتشبازی m (ātiśbāzī), پٹاخا m
- Uzbek: mushakbozlik (uz)
- Vietnamese: pháo hoa (vi), pháo bông (vi)
- Welsh: tân gwyllt (cy) m
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