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English
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: fire‧de‧part‧ment
Noun
fire department (plural fire departments)
- (firefighting, US) An organization, often part of a local government, whose purpose is preventing and putting out fires. May provide other emergency services as well.
Derived terms
Translations
fire department
- Afrikaans: brandweer (af)
- Amharic: የእሳት አደጋ መከላከያ (ye’isati ādega mekelakeya)
- Armenian: հրշեջ պահպանություն (hršeǰ pahpanutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: yanğın şöbəsi
- Basque: suhiltzaileak pl
- Catalan: cos de bombers m, bombers (ca) m pl
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 消防隊 / 消防队 (zh) (xiāofángduì)
- Danish: brandvæsen n
- Dutch: brandweer (nl) f
- Finnish: palokunta (fi), palolaitos (fi)
- French: corps des sapeurs-pompiers m, sapeurs-pompiers (fr) m pl, service d’incendie m, pompiers (fr) m pl
- Galician: corpo de bombeiros m, bombeiros m pl
- Georgian: სახანძრო დეპარტამენტში (saxanʒro deṗarṭamenṭši)
- German: Feuerwehr (de) f
- Greek: πυροσβεστική (el) f (pyrosvestikí), πυροσβεστικό σώμα n (pyrosvestikó sóma)
- Hebrew: מכבי אש m pl (mekhabei esh)
- Hindi: दमकल दस्ता m (damkal dastā), दमकल (hi) f (damkal)
- Icelandic: slökkvilið (is) n
- Italian: corpo dei vigili del fuoco m, vigili del fuoco (it) m pl, corpo dei pompieri m (Switzerland), pompieri (it) m pl (Switzerland)
- Japanese: 消防署 (ja) (しょうぼうしょ, shōbōsho)
- Kazakh: өрт сөндіру бөлімі (ört söndıru bölımı)
- Korean: 소방본부 (sobangbonbu)
- Ladin: destudafuech m pl
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: brannvesen n
- Nynorsk: brannstell n
- Polish: straż pożarna (pl) f
- Portuguese: corpo de bombeiros m, bombeiros m pl
- Russian: пожа́рная кома́нда (ru) f (požárnaja kománda), пожа́рные (ru) m pl (požárnyje)
- Spanish: cuerpo de bomberos m, brigada de bomberos f, bomberos (es) m pl
- Swedish: brandkår (sv) c, räddningskår (sv) c, brandförsvar n
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Tibetan: མེ་གསོད་རུ་ཁག (me gsod ru khag)
- Turkish: itfaiye (tr)
- Uzbek: yong'in bo'limi
- West Frisian: brânwacht c, brânwar c
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