English[edit]
Hands afflicted with frostbite.
Etymology[edit]
frost + bite
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[edit]
Translations[edit]
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
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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[edit]
Translations[edit]
to expose to the effect of frost
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