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English
Pronunciation
Noun
forest fire (plural forest fires)
- A fire, often large, that consumes a forest or woodland.
- If the forest fire is not contained soon the town will be at risk!
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fire
- Catalan: incendi forestal m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 林火 (lam5 fo2), 山火 (saan1 fo2)
- Mandarin: 林火 (zh) (línhuǒ), 森林大火 (sēnlín dàhuǒ), 森林火災／森林火灾 (zh) (sēnlín huǒzāi)
- Danish: skovbrand (da) c
- Dutch: bosbrand (nl) m
- Esperanto: arbara incendio
- Faroese: skógareldur m
- Finnish: metsäpalo (fi)
- French: feu de forêt (fr) m, (jargon) FdF m
- Galician: incendio forestal m, lume (gl) m, incendio (gl) m
- Georgian: ტყის ხანძარი (ṭq̇is xanʒari)
- German: Waldbrand (de) m
- Greek: αγροτοδασική πυρκαγιά f (agrotodasikí pyrkagiá)
- Hungarian: erdőtűz (hu)
- Icelandic: skógareldur (is) m
- Indonesian: kebakaran (id) hutan (id)
- Irish: dóiteán foraoise m
- Japanese: 森林火災 (しんりんかさい, shinrinkasai), 山林火災 (さんりんかさい, sanrin kasai), 山火事 (ja) (yamakaji)
- Kannada: ಹಳುವು ಕಿಚ್ಚು (haḷuvu kiccu)
- Korean: 산불 (ko) (sanbul)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: skogbrann (no) m
- Nynorsk: skogbrann m
- Polish: pożar lasu m
- Portuguese: incêndio florestal m
- Romanian: incendiu de pădure n
- Russian: лесно́й пожа́р m (lesnój požár)
- Samoan: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: incendio forestal m
- Swedish: skogsbrand (sv) c
- Tagalog: asga
- Tetum: inséndiu
- Thai: ไฟป่า (th) (fai-bpàa)
- Tongan: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: лісова́ поже́жа f (lisová požéža)
- Vietnamese: cháy rừng
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