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English
Firefighters.
Etymology
fire + fighter . Created as a gender-neutral term for fireman and firewoman .
Pronunciation
Noun
firefighter (plural firefighters )
A person who has been trained to put out fires.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
Translations
person who puts out fires
Afrikaans: brandweerman sg
Albanian: zjarrfikës (sq) m
Arabic: إِطْفَائِيّ m ( ʔiṭfāʔiyy )
Armenian: հրշեջ (hy) ( hršeǰ )
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܲܟ̰ܡܸܥܵܢܵܐ m ( māčmiʿana ) , ܡܲܟ̰ܡܸܥܵܢܬܵܐ f ( māčmiʿanta )
Asturian: bomberu m
Azerbaijani: yanğınsöndürən
Basque: suhiltzaile (eu)
Belarusian: пажа́рны m ( pažárny )
Breton: pomper m , paotr an tan m
Bulgarian: пожарника́р m ( požarnikár ) , пожарника́рка f ( požarnikárka )
Catalan: bomber (ca) m , bombera (ca) f
Cheyenne: éno'továhenéhe
Chichewa: ozimitsa moto
Chinese:
Mandarin: 消防隊員 / 消防队员 (zh) ( xiāofáng duìyuán ) , 消防員 / 消防员 (zh) ( xiāofángyuán )
Czech: hasič (cs) m , hasička f , požárník (cs) m , požárnice f
Danish: brandmand (da) c
Dutch: brandweerman (nl) m , brandweervrouw (nl) f
Esperanto: fajroestingisto , fajrobrigadano , fajrobrigadisto
Estonian: tuletõrjuja
Finnish: palomies (fi) , pelastaja (fi) , palontorjuja
French: pompier (fr) m , pompière (fr) f
Galician: bombeiro (gl) m , bombeira f
Georgian: მეხანძრე ( mexanʒre )
German: Feuerwehrmann (de) m , Feuerwehrfrau (de) f
Greek: πυροσβέστης (el) m ( pyrosvéstis )
Hebrew: כַּבַּאי (he) m ( kabái ) , כַּבָּאִית (he) f ( kabaít ) , לוחם אש m ( loḥém esh ) , לוחמת אש f ( loḥémet esh )
Hindi: अग्निशमक m ( agniśmak )
Hungarian: tűzoltó (hu)
Icelandic: slökkviliðsmaður (is) m
Indonesian: pemadam kebakaran (id)
Ingrian: požarnoi
Italian: vigile del fuoco (it) m , pompiere (it) m
Japanese: 消防士 (ja) ( しょうぼうし, shōbōshi ) , 消防 隊員 ( しょうぼうたいいん, shōbō taiin )
Kazakh: өрт сөндіруші ( ört söndıruşı )
Khmer: អ្នកលត់ភ្លើង ( nĕək lŭət phləəng )
Korean: 소방수(消防手) (ko) ( sobangsu ) , 기관병(機關兵) ( gigwanbyeong ) , 소방관(消防官) (ko) ( sobanggwan )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: agirkuj (ku)
Latin: siphonarius m , vigil ignis m or f
Latvian: ugunsdzēsējs m
Lithuanian: gaisrininkas m , gaisrininkė f
Luxembourgish: Pompjee m
Macedonian: пожарникар m ( požarnikar ) , пожарникарка f ( požarnikarka )
Malay: ahli bomba
Maori: kaitinei ahi
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: гал сөнөөгч ( gal sönöögč )
Navajo: kǫʼ yiniłtsésí
Northern Sami: jáddadeaddji
Norwegian:
Bokmål: brannkonstabel m , brannmann (no) m
Nynorsk: brannkonstabel m , brannmann m
Ojibwe: aateʼishkodawewinini
Persian:
Iranian Persian: آتَشنِشان (fa) ( âtaš-nešân ) , مَأْمورِ آتَشنِشان ( ma'mur-e âtaš-nešân )
Polish: strażak (pl) m , strażaczka f ( rare )
Portuguese: bombeiro (pt) m , bombeira f
Romanian: pompier (ro) m
Russian: пожа́рный (ru) m ( požárnyj ) , пожа́рная (ru) f ( požárnaja ) , пожа́рник (ru) m ( požárnik ) , пожа́рница (ru) f ( požárnica )
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Scottish Gaelic: neach-smàlaidh m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ватрога́сац m
Roman: vatrogásac (sh) m
Slovak: hasič (sk) m , hasička f , požiarnik m , požiarnička f
Slovene: gasilec (sl) m , gasilka f
Spanish: bombero (es) m , bombera (es) f
Swahili: mzimamoto
Swedish: brandman (sv) c , brandsoldat (sv) c
Tagalog: bumbero (tl) , tagapatay-sunog
Tajik: муборизи оташ ( muborizi otaš ) , сӯхторхомушкунӣ ( süxtorxomuškunī )
Tetum: bombeiru
Thai: พนักงานดับเพลิง ( pá-nák-ngaan-dàp-pləəng )
Tibetan: མེ་གསོད་མཁན ( me gsod mkhan )
Tongan: tangata tāmate-afi
Turkish: itfaiyeci (tr)
Ukrainian: поже́жник m ( požéžnyk ) , поже́жний m ( požéžnyj ) , вогнебо́рець m ( vohnebórecʹ )
Uzbek: oʻchiruvchi (uz)
Vietnamese: lính cứu hỏa
Volapük: lefilapoldan (vo) m or f , lefilahipoldan m , lefilajipoldan f
Welsh: tân-ddiffoddwr m
Yiddish: פֿײַערלעשער m ( fayerlesher )
See also