forest fire

English

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Noun

forest fire (plural forest fires)

1. A fire, often large, that consumes a forest or woodland.

   If the forest fire is not contained soon the town will be at risk!

Synonyms

• bush fire (Australian)
• wildfire
• hill fire (Hong Kong)

Derived terms

• fresh fucked fox in a forest fire

Translations

fire

• Catalan: incendi forestal m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 林火 (lam⁵ fo²), 山火 (saan¹ fo²)

  Mandarin: 林火 (zh) (línhuǒ), 森林大火 (sēnlín dàhuǒ), 森林火災／森林火灾 (zh) (sēnlín huǒzāi)

• Danish: skovbrand (da) c
• Dutch: bosbrand (nl) m
• Esperanto: arbara incendio
• Faroese: skógareldur m
• Finnish: metsäpalo (fi)
• French: feu de forêt (fr) m, (jargon) FdF m
• Galician: incendio forestal m, lume (gl) m, incendio (gl) m
• Georgian: ტყის ხანძარი (ṭq̇is xanʒari)
• German: Waldbrand (de) m
• Greek: αγροτοδασική πυρκαγιά f (agrotodasikí pyrkagiá)
• Hungarian: erdőtűz (hu)
• Icelandic: skógareldur (is) m
• Indonesian: kebakaran (id) hutan (id)
• Irish: dóiteán foraoise m
• Japanese: 森林火災 (しんりんかさい, shinrinkasai), 山林火災 (さんりんかさい, sanrin kasai), 山火事 (ja) (yamakaji)
• Kannada: ಹಳುವು ಕಿಚ್ಚು (haḷuvu kiccu)
• Korean: 산불 (ko) (sanbul)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skogbrann (no) m

  Nynorsk: skogbrann m

• Polish: pożar lasu m
• Portuguese: incêndio florestal m
• Romanian: incendiu de pădure n
• Russian: лесно́й пожа́р m (lesnój požár)
• Samoan: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: incendio forestal m
• Swedish: skogsbrand (sv) c
• Tagalog: asga
• Tetum: inséndiu
• Thai: ไฟป่า (th) (fai-bpàa)
• Tongan: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: лісова́ поже́жа f (lisová požéža)
• Vietnamese: cháy rừng

Further reading

• forest fire on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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