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English
Etymology
From fire + alarm.
Noun
fire alarm (plural fire alarms)
- An electromechanical or electronic bell, klaxon, chime, horn, speaker, strobe light or other device which warns people in a building of a possible fire or other condition requiring evacuation.
- The sound or other warning made by a fire alarm.
- (firefighting) An emergency response to a fire by the fire department with manpower and equipment.
- A four fire-alarm fire ripped through a row of 2.5 story frame dwellings during the early morning hours
Derived terms
Translations
device which warns people of a possible fire
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 火災報警器 / 火灾报警器 (huǒzāi bàojǐngqì), 火警 (zh) (huǒjǐng)
- Danish: brandalarm (da) c
- Dutch: brandalarm (nl) n, brandmelder (nl) m, brandschel
- Faroese: eldvarnari
- Finnish: palohälytin (fi), palovaroitin (fi)
- French: alarme incendie (fr) f, avertisseur d'incendie m
- German: Feueralarm (de) m, Feuermelder (de) m
- Greek: συναγερμός πυρκαγιάς m (synagermós pyrkagiás)
- Hungarian: tűzjelző (hu)
- Icelandic: brunaboði m
- Ido: incendio-avertilo
- Irish: aláram dóiteáin m
- Italian: allarme antincendio m
- Japanese: 火災報知機, 火災報知器 (かさいほうちき, kasai hōchiki), 火災警報機, 火災警報器 (かさいけいほうき, kasai keihōki)
- Kazakh: өртхабарлағыш (örtxabarlağyş)
- Khmer: សំឡេងរោទ៍ភ្លើង (sɑmleing roo phləəng)
- Korean: 화재경보기(火災警報器) (hwajaegyeongbogi)
- Malay: penggera kebakaran
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: brannalarm m
- Nynorsk: brannalarm m
- Plautdietsch: Aunmalda m
- Portuguese: alarme de incêndio m
- Russian: пожа́рная трево́га f (požárnaja trevóga)
- Spanish: alarma de incendios f, alarma anti-incendio f, alarma antiincendios / contraincendios f
- Swedish: brandlarm (sv) n
- Tagalog: alarma sa usok
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: thiết bị báo cháy
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sound or other warning made by a fire alarm
response to a fire by the fire department
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