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English
Hands afflicted with frostbite .
Etymology
frost + bite
Noun
frostbite (countable and uncountable , plural frostbites )
An injury suffered as a result of freezing of some part of the body , typically fingers , toes or the nose .
Coordinate terms
Translations
the freezing of some part of the body
Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: ցրտահարություն (hy) ( cʻrtaharutʻyun )
Bulgarian: измръзване n ( izmrǎzvane ) , измръзнало място n ( izmrǎznalo mjasto )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 凍瘡 / 冻疮 (zh) ( dòngchuāng ) , 凍傷 / 冻伤 (zh) ( dòngshāng ) , 瘃 (zh) ( zhú )
Dutch: bevriezing (nl) f
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Estonian: külmakahjustus
Faroese: frost n , frostsár n
Finnish: paleltuminen , paleltuma (fi) , pakkasenpurema
French: gelure (fr) f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Erfrierung (de) f , Frostbeule (de) f
Greek: κρυοπάγημα (el) n ( kryopágima )
Hungarian: fagykár (hu)
Irish: dó seaca m
Italian: gelone (it) m
Japanese: 霜焼け (ja) ( しもやけ, shimoyake ) , 霜焼 ( しもやけ, shimoyake ) , 凍瘡 (ja) ( とうそう, tōsō ) , 凍傷 (ja) ( とうしょう, tōshō )
Korean: 동상(凍傷) (ko) ( dongsang )
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: подноктица f ( podnoktica )
Malay: luka beku
Maori: mate hukapuri
Mongolian: хөлдөөх ( xöldööx )
Nepali: अररो ( araro )
Persian: شجام (fa) ( šajâm )
Polish: odmrożenie n
Portuguese: congelamento (pt) m , geladura f , úlcera de frio f
Romanian: degerătură (ro) f
Russian: обмороже́ние (ru) n ( obmorožénije )
Sherpa: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: congelamiento (es) m , congelación (es) f
Swedish: köldskada (sv) c , förfrysning (sv) c
Tibetan: གངས་ཕྱིད ( gangs phyid )
Turkish: soğuk ısırması (tr)
Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
Zazaki: bılıkê cemedi
Verb
frostbite (third-person singular simple present frostbites , present participle frostbiting , simple past frostbit , past participle frostbitten )
( transitive ) To expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
( intransitive ) To engage in winter sailboating.
Derived terms
Translations
to expose to the effect of frost
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