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Noun
friendly fire (uncountable)
- Weapons fire from allied or friendly forces, as opposed to fire coming from enemy forces or enemy fire.
1867 June 3, Jasper Selwyn, “Further Particulars Regarding Moncrieff's Protected Barbette System”, in Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, volume XI, number XLIV, page 256:It is clear that the firing of very heavy guns, or the enemy's fire in return, would very seriously interfere with an abbatis, or anything of that kind, and it will only be something of the lightest character, or something that is placed at a considerable distance from the friendly fire, the fire of the gun itself, that would remain.
1910, P.E.T., “The Franco-German War”, in Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States, volume XLVI, number CLXV, page 552:The slaughter of one's own troops by being fired into by their friends in rear. We are very much concerned over the question of avoiding loss from the enemy's bullets while passing through the danger zone, but what have we done to avoid our bravest fellows, the survival of the fittest, those who have gotten to the front and have held on to hard-won positions—what have we done to avoid their being shot to pieces by friendly fire? Absolutely nothing that we have ever heard of—and yet this is one of the most serious problems that confronts the leader of troops. Courage before the enemy will quail before a fire from the rear.
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fire from allied or friendly forces
- Arabic: نِيرَان صَدِيقَة f pl (nīrān ṣadīqa)
- Azerbaijani: dost atəşi
- Basque: su adiskidetsua
- Belarusian: сябро́ўскі аго́нь m (sjabróŭski ahónʹ)
- Bikol Central: kakamping pag'atake
- Bulgarian: прия́телски о́гън m (prijátelski ógǎn)
- Catalan: foc amic m, foc aliat m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 誤擊/误击 (zh) (wùjī), 友軍炮火/友军炮火 (yǒujūn pàohuǒ)
- Czech: přátelská palba f, přátelský oheň m
- Danish: egenbeskydning c
- Dutch: eigen vuur n
- Esperanto: amika pafo
- Finnish: oma tuli
- French: feu ami m, tir ami (fr) m, tir fratricide (fr) m
- Georgian: მეგობრული ცეცხლი (megobruli cecxli), მეგობრული ცეცხლის გახსნა (megobruli cecxlis gaxsna)
- German: Eigenbeschuss m, Friendly Fire (de) n, Beschuss durch die eigene Seite m, irrtümlicher Beschuss der eigenen Streitkräfte m, Nutzfeuer n, eigenes Feuer n
- Greek: φίλια πυρά (el) n pl (fília pyrá)
- Hebrew: אש כוחותינו \ אֵשׁ כֹּחוֹתיניָ f (esh kokhótya)
- Hungarian: baráti tűz
- Ido: tembakan bersahabat
- Italian: fuoco amico m
- Japanese: フレンドリー・ファイア (furendorī-faia), 同士討ち (どうしうち, dōshi uchi), 友軍相撃 (ゆうぐんそうげき, yūgun sōgeki)
- Korean: 아군 사격(我軍射擊) (agun sagyeok)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: آتَشِ خودی (fa) (âtaš-e xodi)
- Polish: przyjacielski ogień m
- Portuguese: fogo amigo m
- Romanian: foc prietenesc n
- Russian: ого́нь по свои́м m (ogónʹ po svoím), дру́жественный ого́нь m (drúžestvennyj ogónʹ)
- Slovak: priateľský oheň m
- Spanish: fuego amigo (es) m
- Swedish: vådabeskjutning, vådabekämpning
- Turkish: dost ateşi (tr)
- Ukrainian: дру́жній вого́нь m (drúžnij vohónʹ)
- Welsh: saethu cyfeillgar
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