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English
Noun
air-raid shelter (plural air-raid shelters)
- A structure, often a reinforced underground shelter designed to give protection against air raids.
1941 July, “Notes and News: New Tube Station at Highgate”, in Railway Magazine, page 329:With the intensification of air raids on London last September, these tube platforms began to be used as an air raid shelter, and shelterers travelled by train (specially stopped there) from other stations in order to gain access.
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Translations
reinforced underground shelter designed to give protection against air raids
- Afrikaans: bomskuiling (af)
- Arabic: مَلْجَأ مِنَ الْقَنَابِل m (maljaʔ mina l-qanābil)
- Armenian: ռմբապաստարան (hy) (ṙmbapastaran)
- Belarusian: бамбасхо́вішча n (bambasxóvišča), схо́вішча n (sxóvišča)
- Bulgarian: противовъзду́шно скрива́лище n (protivovǎzdúšno skriválište), бомбоубе́жище n (bomboubéžište)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 防空洞 (zh) (fángkōngdòng), 防空壕 (zh) (fángkōngháo), 避彈壕／避弹壕 (bìdànháo)
- Czech: protiletecký kryt m
- Danish: beskyttelsesrum n
- Dutch: schuilkelder (nl) m
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: pommivarjend (et)
- Finnish: väestönsuoja (fi)
- French: abri anti-aérien m
- Georgian: ბომბსაფარი (bombsapari)
- German: Luftschutzbunker (de) m
- Hebrew: מִקְלָט (he) m (miklát)
- Hungarian: légoltalmi óvóhely (hu), óvóhely (hu), légópince (hu)
- Italian: rifugio antiaereo m
- Japanese: 防空壕 (ja) (ぼうくうごう, bōkūgō)
- Kazakh: бомбапана (bombapana)
- Korean: 방공호(防空壕) (ko) (banggongho)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: sitargeha êrişên ezmanî
- Kyrgyz: жерпаана (jerpaana), бомбоубежище (bomboubejişce)
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tilfluktsrom n
- Pohnpeian: pwohkungo
- Polish: schron przeciwlotniczy m
- Portuguese: abrigo antiaéreo m
- Romanian: adăpost antiaerian (ro) n
- Russian: бомбоубе́жище (ru) n (bomboubéžišče), убе́жище (ru) n (ubéžišče)
- Slovak: protiletecký kryt m
- Spanish: refugio antiaéreo m, refugio antibombas m
- Swedish: skyddsrum (sv) n
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: бомбосхо́вище (uk) n (bombosxóvyšče), схо́вище n (sxóvyšče)
- Uzbek: bombapanoh (uz), bombapanohgoh, bombapana (uz)
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