bombardment

English

The city of Minsk under bombardment by Luftwaffe, 24th of June 1941.

Etymology

From bombard +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɑmbɑɹdmənt/, /bəm-/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

bombardment (countable and uncountable, plural bombardments)

1. The act of bombing, especially towns or cities.
2. Heavy artillery fire.
3. (physics) The incidence of an intense stream of high-energy particles directed at a substance.
4. (figurative) An onslaught of criticism etc.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:bombardment.

Derived terms

• cobombardment
• Late Heavy Bombardment
• superbombardment

Translations

act of bombing, esp towns or cities

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: قَصْف m (qaṣf)
• Armenian: ռմբակոծում (hy) (ṙmbakocum), ռմբակոծություն (hy) (ṙmbakocutʻyun)
• Belarusian: бамбава́нне n (bambavánnje), бамбёжка f (bambjóžka)
• Bulgarian: бомбардиро́вка f (bombardiróvka)
• Catalan: bombardeig (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 轟擊 / 轰击 (zh) (hōngjī), 砲擊 / 炮击 (zh) (pàojī)

• Dutch: bombardement (nl) n
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: pommitus (fi)
• French: bombardement (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Bombardierung (de) f, Bombardement (de) n (dated)
• Hungarian: bombázás (hu)
• Italian: bombardamento (it)
• Japanese: 爆撃 (ja) (bakugeki), 砲撃 (ja) (hōgeki)
• Korean: 포격 (ko) (pogyeok)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: bombardement m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bombardement n

  Nynorsk: bombardement n

• Persian: بمباردمان (bombârdemân)
• Polish: bombardowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: bombardeamento (pt), bombardeio (pt)
• Romanian: bombardament (ro), bombardare (ro) f
• Russian: бомбардиро́вка (ru) f (bombardiróvka), бомбёжка (ru) f (bombjóžka)
• Slovak: bombardovanie n
• Spanish: bombardeo (es) m
• Swedish: bombning (sv) c
• Tagalog: pagtampol
• Turkish: bombardıman (tr)
• Ukrainian: бомбардува́ння (uk) n (bombarduvánnja), бомбува́ння (uk) n (bombuvánnja)

heavy artillery fire

• Bulgarian: бомбардиро́вка f (bombardiróvka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 砲擊 / 炮击 (zh) (pàojī)

• Finnish: tykistökeskitys
• German: Beschuss (de) m
• Japanese: 爆撃 (ja) (bakugeki), 砲撃 (ja) (hōgeki)
• Russian: бомбардиро́вка (ru) f (bombardiróvka), артобстре́л (ru) m (artobstrél), артиллери́йский обстре́л m (artilleríjskij obstrél), канона́да (ru) f (kanonáda)
• Spanish: bombardeo (es) m
• Tagalog: tampol
• Ukrainian: бомбардування (uk) n (bombarduvannja), артобстріл m (artobstril)

incidence of stream of high-energy particles

• Finnish: hiukkaspommitus, pommitus (fi)
• Japanese: 衝撃 (ja) (shōgeki), 照射 (ja) (shōsha)
• Russian: бомбардиро́вка (ru) f (bombardiróvka)
• Spanish: bombardeo (es) m
• Tagalog: tampol, pagtampol

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• French: ^{(please verify)} bombardement (fr) m

See also

• bombard
• bombarded