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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
cease + fire
Noun
cease-fire (plural cease-fires)
- In warfare, an agreed end to hostilities for a specific purpose. (Typically only temporary).
The rebels agreed to a ceasefire while the peace talks were underway.
Translations
in warfare, an agreed end to hostilities for a specific purpose
- Afrikaans: vuurstaking
- Albanian: armëpushim (sq) m, pushim zjarri m
- Arabic: هُدْنَة f (hudna), وَقْف نَار m (waqf nār), وَقْف إِطْلَاق نَار m (waqf ʔiṭlāq nār)
- Armenian: հրադադար (hy) (hradadar)
- Azerbaijani: atəşkəs
- Basque: su-eten
- Bavarian: Woffnstuistand m
- Belarusian: спыне́нне агню́ n (spynjénnje ahnjú), замiрэ́нне n (zamirénnje), перамі́р'е n (pjeramírʺje)
- Bulgarian: прими́рие (bg) n (primírie), прекратя́ване на о́гъня n (prekratjávane na ógǎnja)
- Catalan: alto el foc m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 停火 (zh) (tínghuǒ), 休戰／休战 (zh) (xiūzhàn), 停戰／停战 (zh) (tíngzhàn)
- Corsican: cessate u focu m
- Czech: příměří (cs) n
- Danish: våbenhvile (da) c
- Dutch: staakt-het-vuren (nl) n, wapenstilstand (nl), vuurstaking f
- Esperanto: militpaŭzo
- Estonian: relvarahu
- Faroese: vápnahvíld f
- Finnish: tulitauko (fi)
- French: cessez-le-feu (fr) m, trêve (fr) f
- Galician: alto o fogo m
- Georgian: ცეცხლის შეწყვეტა (cecxlis šec̣q̇veṭa), საომარი მოქმედების შეწყვეტა (saomari mokmedebis šec̣q̇veṭa)
- German: Waffenstillstand (de) m, Feuerpause (de) f
- Greek: εκεχειρία (el) f (ekecheiría), ανακωχή (el) f (anakochí)
- Ancient: ἀνακωχή f (anakōkhḗ)
- Greenlandic: akiuukkunnaarallarneq
- Hebrew: הַפְסָקַת־אֵשׁ (he) f (hafsakát-ésh)
- Hindi: युद्धविराम m (yuddhavirām)
- Hungarian: tűzszünet (hu), fegyverszünet (hu)
- Icelandic: vopnahlé n
- Indonesian: gencatan senjata (id)
- Interlingua: cessa-le-foco, armistitio
- Irish: sos cogaidh
- Italian: cessate il fuoco (it) m, armistizio (it) m
- Japanese: 停戦 (ja) (ていせん, teisen), 休戦 (ja) (きゅうせん, kyūsen)
- Kazakh: атысты тоқтату (atysty toqtatu)
- Khmer: បទឈប់បាញ់ (bɑt chup bañ)
- Korean: 정전(停戰) (ko) (jeongjeon), 휴전(休戰) (ko) (hyujeon)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: agirbest (ku) f
- Kyrgyz: атышууну токтотуу (atışuunu toktotuu)
- Lao: ຢຸດຍິງ (yut nying), ການຢຸດຍິງ (kān yut nying)
- Latin: guerra recrēdūta f (medieval)
- Latvian: uguns pārtraukšana f
- Lithuanian: ugnies nutraukimas m
- Macedonian: примирје n (primirje)
- Malay: gencatan senjata
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: зэвсэг хураалт (zevseg xuraalt)
- Norman: cêsse-feu m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: våpenhvile (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: våpenkvile f
- Occitan: alt au fuòc m, alta au fuòc f, alt au fòc m
- Pashto: ډزبندي f (ḍazbandi)
- Persian:
- Dari: آتَشبَس (fa) (ātaš-bas)
- Iranian Persian: آتَشبَس (âtaš-bas)
- Polish: zawieszenie broni (pl) n, rozejm (pl) m
- Portuguese: cessar-fogo m, armistício (pt) m, trégua (pt) f
- Romanian: încetare a focului f, armistițiu (ro) n
- Romansch: armistizi m
- Russian: прекраще́ние огня́ n (prekraščénije ognjá), переми́рие (ru) n (peremírije)
- Sardinian: tzessade su fogu m, tzessade-su-fogu m
- Scottish Gaelic: fois-losgaidh f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: прекид ватре m, при́мӣрје n
- Roman: prekid vatre m, prímīrje (sh) n
- Slovak: prímerie n
- Slovene: prekinitev ognja f
- Spanish: alto el fuego m, armisticio (es) m, tregua (es) f
- Swahili: usitishaji, usitishaji mapigano, usitishaji vita
- Swedish: vapenvila (sv) n
- Tagalog: tigil-putukan
- Tajik: оташбас (otašbas)
- Thai: การพักรบ (gaan-pák-róp), การหยุดยิง (gaan-yùt-ying)
- Turkish: ateşkes (tr)
- Ukrainian: припине́ння вогню́ n (prypynénnja vohnjú), переми́р'я n (peremýrʺja)
- Urdu: جَن٘گ بَنْدی f (jaṅg bandī)
- Uzbek: oʻt ochishni toʻxtatish
- Vietnamese: lệnh ngừng bắn (vi), đình chiến (vi)
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