firewood

English

A cord of firewood.

Etymology

From Middle English ferwode, fyrewoode, equivalent to fire +‎ wood.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪ.ə(ɹ).wʊd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (Upper RP Triphthong Smoothing) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ə(ɹ).wʊd/, /ˈfaː(ɹ).wʊd/, /ˈfɑ.ə(ɹ).wʊd/, /ˈfɑ.əː(ɹ).wʊd/
• (General American) enPR: fīʹərwo͝od, fīr, IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪ.ɚ.wʊd/, [ˈfaɪ.ɚ.wʊd]
• (Southern US, Appalachia) IPA^(key): [ˈfäː.ɚ.wʊd]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈfɑe.ə(ɹ).wʊd/
• Rhymes: -ʊd

Noun

firewood (countable and uncountable, plural firewoods)

1. Wood intended to be burned, typically for heat.

   Hypernym: fuel

   Hyponym: firelog

   Coordinate terms: kindling, tinder

   After many days of hard work, we finally had enough firewood for the winter.

Derived terms

• firewood-gatherer
• firewood rape

 

Related terms

• fireplace
• wood burner
• woodfire
• woodfired
• woodstove

 

Descendants

• Chinese Pidgin English: firewood, 快也𭉉 (Chinese spelling)

Translations

wood intended to be burned, typically for heat

• Ainu: アベチクニ (abechikuni)
• Albanian: karthi f
• Apache:

  Western Apache: bichizh

• Arabic: حَطَب m (ḥaṭab)

  Egyptian Arabic: حطب m (ḥaṭab)

• Armenian: վառելափայտ (hy) (vaṙelapʻayt), ցախ (hy) (cʻax)
• Assamese: খৰি (khori)
• Asturian: lleña (ast) f
• Avar: цӏцӏул (ccʼul)
• Azerbaijani: odun (az)
• Bashkir: утын (utın)
• Belarusian: дро́вы n pl (dróvy)
• Bengali: জ্বাল (bn) (jal)
• Bikol Central: igatong
• Bulgarian: дърва́ за горе́не pl (dǎrvá za goréne), дърва́ (bg) pl (dǎrvá)
• Burmese: ထင်း (my) (htang:)
• Catalan: llenya (ca) f
• Chamicuro: kajchi
• Chichewa: nkhuni
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 柴火 (zh) (cháihuo), 木柴 (zh) (mùchái), 柴禾 (zh) (cháihé)

• Chinese Pidgin English: firewood
• Cree: mihti
• Czech: palivové dříví n, dříví (cs) n (wood)
• Danish: ved (da) n, brænde (da) n, brændsel
• Dutch: brandhout (nl) n
• Esperanto: brulligno
• Estonian: lõkkepuud pl
• Finnish: polttopuu (fi), klapi (fi)
• French: bois de chauffage (fr) m
• Galician: leña f
• Georgian: შეშა (ka) (šeša)
• German: Brennholz (de) n, Feuerholz (de) n
• Greek: καυσόξυλα (el) n pl (kafsóxyla)

  Ancient: φρύγανα n pl (phrúgana)

• Gujarati: જળણ n (jaḷṇa), ઇંધન n (indhan), બળતણ n (baḷtaṇ), ઈંધણ n (ī̃dhaṇ), એંધણાં n pl (endhaṇā̃) (North Gujarat)
• Hebrew: עֲצֵי הַסָּקָה m (ets hasaká)
• Hindi: लकड़ी (hi) f (lakṛī)
• Hungarian: tűzifa (hu), tüzelőfa (hu)
• Icelandic: eldiviður (is) m
• Indonesian: kayu bakar (id)
• Irish: adhmad tine m
• Italian: legna (it) f, legna da ardere f
• Japanese: 薪 (ja) (まき, maki, たきぎ, takigi)
• Kapampangan: panangab
• Kazakh: отын (otyn)
• Khmer: អុស (ʼoh), ឧស (km) (ʼoh), សមិន្ធន៍ (km) (saʼmɨn)
• Korean: 땔나무 (ko) (ttaellamu), 장작(長斫) (ko) (jangjak)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ھێزِم (hêzim)

  Northern Kurdish: êzing (ku)

  Southern Kurdish: لێزمە (ku) (lêzme)

• Kyrgyz: отун (ky) (otun)
• Lao: ຟຶນ (fưn)
• Latin: cremium n, lignum (la) n
• Latvian: malka (lv) f
• Lithuanian: malkos
• Luxembourgish: Brennholz n
• Macedonian: др́ва n pl (dŕva), огревно дрво n (ogrevno drvo)
• Malagasy: kitày (mg)
• Malay: kayu api
• Malayalam: വിറക് (ml) (viṟakŭ)
• Maori: wahie, wahia, pīraka, pīrakaraka, pīraku, pīrahu
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: түлш (mn) (tülš)

• Mwani: lukuni
• Navajo: chizh
• Nepali: दाउरा (ne) (dāurā)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ved (no) m

  Nynorsk: ved m

• Occitan: lenha (oc) f
• Ojibwe: mishi
• Oromo: qoraan
• Ottoman Turkish: اوطون (odun)
• Persian: هیزم (fa) (hêzom), هیمه (fa) (hime)
• Plautdietsch: Brennholt n
• Polish: drewno na opał n, drwa (pl) pl
• Portuguese: lenha (pt) f
• Quechua: yanta
• Romanian: lemne de foc n pl
• Russian: дрова́ (ru) n pl (drová), поле́нья (ru) n pl (polénʹja)
• Sanskrit: एध (sa) m (edha)
• Scots: eldin, elding
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дрва n pl, скосје n

  Latin: drva (sh) n pl, skosje n

• Slovak: palivové drevo n, drevo (sk) n (wood)
• Slovene: drva n pl
• Spanish: leña (es) f
• Swahili: kuni (sw)
• Swazi: lukhuni
• Swedish: ved (sv) c, bränsle (sv) n, brasved c
• Tagalog: panggatong
• Tajik: ҳезум (hezum)
• Tamil: விறகு (ta) (viṟaku)
• Tarifit: ašeḥruf m
• Tatar: утын (tt) (utın)
• Thai: ฟืน (th) (fʉʉn)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Tok Pisin: paiawut, diwai (tpi)
• Turkish: odun (tr)
• Turkmen: odun
• Ukrainian: дро́ва n pl (dróva)
• Urdu: لَکْڑی f (lakṛī)
• Uyghur: ئوتۇن (otun)
• Uzbek: oʻtin (uz)
• Vietnamese: củi (vi)
• Volapük: filaboad, filamaboad (vo)
• Welsh: tanwydd (cy) m
• Yámana: touwa
• Yiddish: ברענהאָלץ n (brenholts)
• Yoruba: igi ìdáná
• Zulu: ukhuni
• ǃXóõ: ǀʻàã

Anagrams

• woodfire

Chinese Pidgin English

Alternative forms

• 快也𭉉 (Chinese spelling)

Etymology

From English firewood.

Noun

firewood

1. firewood
   • 1862, 唐景星 [Tong King-sing], 英語集全 [Chinese English Instructor], volume VI, marginalia, page 34; republished as “Pidgin English texts from the Chinese English Instructor”, in Michelle Li, Stephen Matthews, Geoff P. Smith, editors, Hong Kong Journal of Applied Linguistics‎^[1], volume 10, number 1, 2005, pages 79-167:

     涉𪢍治快也𭉉窩打
     *ship³ get³ zhi⁶ faai³ jaa⁵ wut⁶ wo¹ daa²
     Ship catchee firewood, water.
     The ships provides^[sic] wood and water.