English
Etymology
From fire + fighter. Created as a gender-neutral term for fireman and firewoman.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfaɪə(ɹ)ˌfaɪ.tə(ɹ)/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈfaɪ.ɚˌfaɪ.tɚ/
Noun
firefighter (plural firefighters)
- (firefighting) A person who has been trained to put out fires.
- Synonyms: fireperson, smoke eater
- Hyponyms: fireman (often broadly synonymous), firewoman, hotshot, smokejumper, wildfire-fighter
Derived terms
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), пажа́рнік m (pažárnik)
- 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), 消拯員 / 消拯员 (xiāozhěngyuán) (Malaysia)
- 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)
- Hawaiian: kanaka kinai ahi
- 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), 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 (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)
- Samoan: please add this translation if you can
- 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 (muboriz-i otaš), сӯхторхомушкунӣ (süxtorxomuškuni)
- 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)
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