cease-fire

English

Alternative forms

• cease-fire

Etymology

cease +‎ fire

Noun

cease-fire (plural cease-fires)

1. In warfare, an agreed end to hostilities for a specific purpose. (Typically only temporary).

   The rebels agreed to a ceasefire while the peace talks were underway.

Translations

in warfare, an agreed end to hostilities for a specific purpose

• Albanian: armëpushim (sq)
• Arabic: هُدْنَة f (hudna), وَقْف نَار m (waqf nār), وقف إطلاق نار
• Catalan: alto el foc m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 停火 (zh) (tínghuǒ), 休戰／休战 (zh) (xiūzhàn), 休战 (zh) (xiūzhàn), 停戰／停战 (zh) (tíngzhàn), 停战 (zh) (tíngzhàn)

• Czech: příměří n
• Danish: våbenhvile (da) c
• Dutch: staakt-het-vuren (nl) n
• Esperanto: militpaŭzo
• Finnish: tulitauko (fi)
• French: cessez-le-feu (fr) m, trêve (fr) f
• Georgian: ცეცხლის შეწყვეტა (cecxlis šec̣q̇veṭa), საომარი მოქმედების შეწყვეტა (saomari mokmedebis šec̣q̇veṭa)
• German: Waffenstillstand (de) m, Feuerpause (de) f
• Greek: εκεχειρία (el) f (ekecheiría)

  Ancient: ἀνακωχή f (anakōkhḗ)

• Hebrew: הַפְסָקַת־אֵשׁ (he) f (hafsakát-ésh)
• Hungarian: tűzszünet (hu), fegyverszünet (hu)
• Indonesian: gencatan senjata (id)
• Interlingua: cessa-le-foco, armistitio
• Italian: cessate il fuoco (it) m, armistizio (it) m
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• Japanese: 停戦 (ていせん, teisen), 休戦 (きゅうせん, kyūsen)
• Korean: 정전 (ko) (jeongjeon) (停戰 (ko)), 휴전 (ko) (hyujeon)
• Kurdish:
• Malay: gencatan senjata
• Norman: cêsse-feu m
• Norwegian: våpenhvile (no)
• Persian: آتش‌بس (âtaš-bas)
• Polish: zawieszenie broni (pl) n, rozejm (pl) m
• Portuguese: cessar-fogo m, armistício (pt) m, trégua (pt) f
• Romanian: încetare a focului f, armistițiu (ro) n
• Russian: прекраще́ние огня́ n (prekraščénije ognjá), переми́рие (ru) n (peremírije)
• Scottish Gaelic: fois-losgaidh f
• Slovak: prímerie
• Slovene: prekinitev ognja f
• Spanish: alto el fuego m, armisticio (es) m, tregua (es) f
• Swedish: eldupphör n
• Tagalog: tigil-putukan
• Turkish: ateşkes (tr)
• Ukrainian: припине́ння вогню́ n (prypynénnja vohnjú), переми́р'я n (peremýrʺja)
• Vietnamese: lệnh ngừng bắn

See also

• armistice
• truce