battlefield

English

Etymology

battle +‎ field

Noun

battlefield (plural battlefields)

1. The area where a land battle is or was fought, which is not necessarily a field.
   • 1886 The night of the 16th of May found McPherson's command bivouacked from two to six miles west of the battlefield, along the line of the road to Vicksburg — Ulysses S. Grant, Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant, Chapter 35.

Synonyms

• field of battle
• battleground

Translations

field of a land battle

• Arabic: سَاحَة حَرْب f (sāḥat ḥarb), سَاحَة مَعْرَكَة f (sāḥat maʿraka)
• Catalan: camp de batalla m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 戰場／战场 (zh) (zhànchǎng), 战场 (zh) (zhànchǎng), 沙場／沙场 (zh) (shāchǎng), 沙场 (zh) (shāchǎng)

• Czech: bojiště (cs) n
• Danish: slagmark c
• Dutch: slagveld (nl) n
• Esperanto: batalejo
• Estonian: lahinguväli
• Finnish: taistelukenttä (fi), taistelutanner (fi)
• French: champ de bataille (fr) m

  Old French: champ f

• German: Schlachtfeld (de) n
• Greek: πεδίο μάχης (el) n (pedío máchis)
• Gujarati: યુદ્ધક્ષેત્ર (yuddhakṣetra)
• Hebrew: שְׂדֵה קְרָב (he) m (s'de k'ráv)
• Hungarian: harcmező (hu), csatatér (hu)
• Icelandic: vígvöllur m
• Indonesian: medan tempur, medan perang (id)
• Irish: ármhá f, blár catha m, fód catha m, machaire catha m
• Italian: campo di battaglia m
• Japanese: 戦場 (ja) (せんじょう, senjō)
• Khmer: រឿណរង្គ (km) (rɨən rŭəng)
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• Korean: 전장 (ko) (jeonjang) (戰場 (ko)), 싸움터 (ko) (ssaumteo)
• Latvian: karalauks m
• Luxembourgish: Schluechtfeld n
• Maori: tahua riringa, tūmū, māra o te pakanga, kauhanga riri, parekura, pae o te pakanga, tūmū
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: slagmark (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: slagmark f

• Old English: campstede m
• Polish: pole bitwy (pl) n
• Portuguese: campo de batalha m
• Russian: по́ле бо́я n (póle bója), по́ле би́твы n (póle bítvy), по́ле бра́ни n (póle bráni)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бојиште n, бојишница f

  Roman: bojište (sh) n, bojišnica (sh) f

• Shan: ပၢင်တိုၵ်း (pǎang túek)
• Slovak: bojisko n
• Spanish: campo de batalla m
• Swedish: slagfält (sv) c, krigsfält c
• Telugu: యుద్ధరంగము (te) (yuddharaṅgamu), రణరంగము (te) (raṇaraṅgamu)
• Thai: สนามรบ (th) (sà-nǎam-róp)
• Turkish: savaş meydanı, savaş alanı (tr)
• Vietnamese: chiến trường (vi)
• Welsh: cadlan f
• Yiddish: שלאַכטפֿעלד n (shlakhtfeld)

See also

• battlespace