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English
Verb
set on fire (third-person singular simple present sets on fire, present participle setting on fire, simple past and past participle set on fire)
- (transitive) To cause to begin to burn.
- (figuratively, transitive) To arouse passionate feelings in.
- You set my heart on fire.
Synonyms
- (cause to begin to burn): fire, ignite, set afire, set alight, set fire to, set ablaze, set afire, set aflame
- (arouse passionate feelings in): inflame, ignite, inspire, excite, rouse
Derived terms
Translations
cause to begin to burn
- Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: վառել (hy) (vaṙel), այրել (hy) (ayrel), հրկիզել (hy) (hrkizel)
- Azerbaijani: odlamaq, od vurmaq, yandırmaq (az), alışdırmaq
- Bulgarian: паля (bg) (palja), запалвам (bg) (zapalvam)
- Catalan: encendre (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 焚燒／焚烧 (fan4 siu1)
- Hokkien: 放火 (zh-min-nan) (pàng-hóe, pàng-hé), 放火燒／放火烧 (páng-hóe-sio, páng-hé-sio)
- Mandarin: 放火 (zh) (fànghuǒ), 縱火／纵火 (zh) (zònghuǒ) (formal)
- Czech: zapálit (cs)
- Dutch: in brand steken, aansteken (nl)
- Esperanto: ekbruligi
- Finnish: sytyttää (fi)
- French: allumer (fr), enflammer (fr), embraser (fr)
- Galician: acender (gl), prender (gl), pregar
- Georgian: წვავს (c̣vavs), დაწვავს (dac̣vavs)
- German: anzünden (de), entzünden (de)
- Greek: βάζω φωτιά (vázo fotiá)
- Hebrew: הצית (hitsít), הדליק (hidlík)
- Hindi: तापना (hi) (tāpnā), जलाना (hi) (jalānā)
- Hungarian: felgyújt (hu), meggyújt (hu)
- Indonesian: membakar (id)
- Ingrian: virittää, syttää, sytyttää
- Italian: incendiare (it), dare fuoco a
- Japanese: 火を付ける (ひをつける, hi o tsukeru), 着火する (ja) (chakka suru), 点火する (ja) (tenka suru), 放火する (ja) (hōka suru) (for arson)
- Kashmiri:
- Devanagari: ज़ालुन (zālun)
- Perso-Arabic: زالُن (zālun)
- Kazakh: жағу (jağu), өртеу (örteu)
- Khmer: ដុត (km) (dot)
- Korean: 불을 지르다 (bur-eul jireuda), 점화(點火)하다 (jeomhwahada), 방화(放火)하다 (ko) (banghwahada) (for arson)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: سووتاندن (sûtandin), ئاگرکردن (agirkirdin)
- Latin: incendō, igniō (la), accendō (la), flammō
- Latvian: aizdedzināt
- Lithuanian: padegti
- Malay: bakar (ms)
- Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: podpalić (pl), zapalić (pl)
- Portuguese: queimar (pt), atear (pt), incendiar (pt)
- Romanian: da foc
- Russian: подже́чь (ru) (podžéčʹ), заже́чь (ru) (zažéčʹ), запали́ть (ru) (zapalítʹ)
- Samoan: tutu i (sm) afi (sm)
- Slovak: zapáliť, podpáliť
- Spanish: pegar fuego, prender fuego, incendiar (es), encender (es), alumbrar (es)
- Swedish: sätta eld på, antända (sv), sätta i brand, sätta fyr på
- Telugu: తగులబెట్టు (te) (tagulabeṭṭu), మంటబెట్టు (maṇṭabeṭṭu)
- Tetum: please add this translation if you can
- Thai: จุด (th) (jùt), จุดไฟ
- Tongan: tutu
- Ukrainian: підпа́лювати impf (pidpáljuvaty), підпали́ти pf (pidpalýty)
- Vietnamese: đốt (vi), phóng hoả (vi)
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arouse passionate feelings in
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