fire

See also: FIRE and fíre

English

A large fire (1)

A small fire from a lighter (1)

The fire of a stationary minigun (7)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪ.ə(ɹ)/, /ˈfaɪə(ɹ)/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈfɑe.ə(ɹ)/
• (US) enPR: fīʹər, fīr, IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪəɹ/, [ˈfaɪɚ]
  • (Southern American English, Appalachia) IPA^(key): [ˈfäːɚ]

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English fier, from Old English fȳr (“fire”), from *fuïr, a regularised form of Proto-Germanic *fōr (“fire”) (compare Saterland Frisian Fjuur, West Frisian fjoer, Dutch vuur, Low German Füer, German Feuer, Danish fyr), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥. Compare Hittite 𒉺𒄴𒄯 (paḫḫur), Umbrian pir, Tocharian A/B por/puwar, Czech pýř (“hot ashes”), Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”), and Armenian հուր (hur, “fire”)). This was an inanimate noun whose animate counterpart was Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷnis (see ignite). Cognate to pyre.

Noun

fire (countable and uncountable, plural fires)

2. (uncountable) A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering.
3. (countable) An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained in a specific location to a useful end (such as a campfire or a hearth fire).

   We sat about the fire singing songs and telling tales.

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.

4. (countable) The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.

   There was a fire at the school last night and the whole place burned down.

   During hot and dry summers many fires in forests are caused by regardlessly discarded cigarette butts.

   • 2020 January 1, Bernard Lagan, “Thousands flee to beaches as the flames close in”, in The Times, number 73,044, page 24:

     Efforts to fight the fires in New South Wales and Victoria were hampered as large fires converged and created their own violent weather systems. The fire created dry lightning storms so severe that planes had to be grounded.

5. (uncountable, alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
6. (countable, British) A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
7. (countable) The elements necessary to start a fire.

   The fire was laid and needed to be lit.

8. (uncountable) The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun.

   The fire from the enemy guns kept us from attacking.

9. Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
   • (Can we date this quote by Atterbury and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     He had fire in his temper.

10. Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
    • (Can we date this quote by Alexander Pope and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

      And bless their critic with a poet's fire.

11. Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
    • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:

      Stars, hide your fires.

    • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

      As in a zodiac representing the heavenly fires.

12. A severe trial; anything inflaming or provoking.

Synonyms

• blaze
• conflagration
• inferno

Derived terms

Terms derived from fire (noun)

• all-fire
• add fuel to the fire
• back fire
• balefire
• ball of fire
• baptism of fire
• bonfire
• brush-fire
• brush fire
• brushfire
• bushfire
• campfire
• catch fire
• ceasefire
• covering fire
• electric fire
• fiery
• fight fire with fire
• fire alarm
• fire and brimstone
• fire away
• firearm
• fireball
• fire bay
• fire beater
• fireblast
• fireboat
• firebolt
• firebomb
• firebox
• firebrand
• firebreak
• fire brigade
• firebug
• fireclay
• fire company
• firecracker
• fire department
• firedog
• fire drill
• fire-eater
• fire engine
• fire escape
• fire exit
• fire extinguisher
• fire-fight
• firefight
• firefighter
• fire flapper
• firefly
• fireless
• fireguard
• firehole
• fire hose
• firehouse
• fire hydrant
• fire in the belly
• firelighter
• fireman
• fireplace
• fireplug
• fireproof
• firer
• fire-resistant
• fire retardant
• fireshine
• fire ship
• fire station
• fireside
• fire sign
• fire-starter
• fire step
• firestop
• fire swab
• fire swatter
• fire teaser
• fire tower
• fire trench
• fire truck
• fire up
• firewire
• firewoman
• firewood
• firework
• forest fire
• friendly fire
• gas fire
• grassfire
• grass fire
• Greek fire
• hair-on-fire
• hang fire
• heap coals on fire
• hold one's fire
• hold someone's feet to the fire
• irons in the fire
• light someone's fire
• no smoke without fire
• on fire
• open fire
• ordeal of fire
• pants on fire
• play with fire
• Promethean fire
• pull out of the fire
• rain fire and brimstone
• rapid fire
• real fire
• set one's hair on fire
• St Anthony's fire
• St Elmo's fire
• tire fire
• trial by fire

 

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: faya

Translations

See fire/translations § Noun.

Etymology 2

From Middle English firen, fyren, furen, from Old English fȳrian (“to make a fire”), from the noun (see above). Cognate with Old Frisian fioria (“to light a fire”), Saterland Frisian fjuurje (“to fire”), Middle Dutch vûren, vueren, vieren (“to set fire”), Dutch vuren (“to fire, shoot”), Old High German fiuren (“to ignite, set on fire”), German feuern (“to fire”).

Verb

1. (transitive) To set (something, often a building) on fire.
   • 1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “At the House in Great Portland Street”, in The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 186:

     ["]Then I slipped up again with a box of matches, fired my heap of paper and rubbish, put the chairs and bedding thereby, led the gas to the affair, by means of an india-rubber tube, and waving a farewell to the room left it for the last time." / "You fired the house!" exclaimed Kemp. / "Fired the house. It was the only way to cover my trail – and no doubt it was insured.["]

   • 1907, Jack London, The Iron Heel

     It was long a question of debate, whether the burning of the South Side ghetto was accidental, or whether it was done by the Mercenaries; but it is definitely settled now that the ghetto was fired by the Mercenaries under orders from their chiefs.

2. (transitive) To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.

   If you fire the pottery at too high a temperature, it may crack.

   They fire the wood to make it easier to put a point on the end.

   • Template:RQ:Frgsn Zlnstn

     So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills, […] a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

3. (transitive) To drive away by setting a fire.
   • (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Till my bad angel fire my good one out.

4. (transitive) To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct or poor performance).

   Antonym: hire

   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p.226:

     The first, obvious choice was hysterical and fantastic Blanche – had there not been her timidity, her fear of being ‘fired’ […].

5. (transitive) To shoot (a gun or analogous device).

   We will fire our guns at the enemy.

   He fired his radar gun at passing cars.

6. (intransitive) To shoot a gun, cannon, or similar weapon.

   Synonyms: open fire, shoot

   Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes.

7. (transitive, sports) To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
   • 2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2-2 Arsenal”, in BBC:

     Andrey Arshavin equalised with a superb volley into the corner before Nicklas Bendtner coolly fired Arsenal in front.

8. (intransitive, physiology) To cause an action potential in a cell.

   When a neuron fires, it transmits information.

9. (transitive) To forcibly direct (something).

   He answered the questions the reporters fired at him.

10. (transitive, intransitive, computer sciences, software engineering) To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).

    The event handler should only fire after all web page content has finished loading.

    The queue fires a job whenever the thread pool is ready to handle it.

11. To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.

    to fire the soul with anger, pride, or revenge

    • (Can we date this quote by John Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

      Love had fired my mind.

12. To animate; to give life or spirit to.

    to fire the genius of a young man

13. To feed or serve the fire of.

    to fire a boiler

    • 1961 March, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 150, 151:

      We left with the "Blue Train", dead on time. This time I fired all the way. [...] The next day took me home again on No. E.16 with Henri Dutertre. I fired from Paris to Calais.

14. To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
    • (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

      [The sun] fires the proud tops of the eastern pines.

15. (farriery) To cauterize.
16. (intransitive, dated) To catch fire; to be kindled.
17. (intransitive, dated) To be irritated or inflamed with passion.

Synonyms

• (set on fire): See set on fire
• (transitive, shoot): let off, loose (archery), shoot
• (terminate the employment of): dehire, dismiss, give one's cards, give the boot, give the elbow, give the old heave-ho, let go, make redundant, sack, terminate, throw out, unhire; See also Thesaurus:lay off.

Derived terms

• coal-fired, coalfired
• fire away
• fire off
• fire up
• firing
• oil-fired
• overfired
• ready, aim, fire!
• underfired
• unfirable
• you're fired

 

Translations

to set on fire — see set on fire

to heat pottery, etc.

• Afrikaans: Template:t-simple
• Armenian: Template:t-simple
• Bulgarian: Template:t-simple
• Catalan: Template:t-simple
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: Template:t-simple
• Danish: Template:t-simple
• Dutch: Template:t-simple
• Finnish: polttaa (fi) (ceramic materials); Template:t-simple (most others)
• French: Template:t-simple
• Galician: cocer (gl)
• German: Template:t-simple
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hebrew: Template:t-simple
• Hindi: पकाना (hi) (pakānā)
• Hungarian: kiéget (hu) (ceramics)
• Indonesian: Template:t-simple
• Irish: Template:t-simple
• Macedonian: Template:t-simple
• Maori: Template:t-simple
• Norwegian: Template:t-simple
• Portuguese: cozinhar (pt), Template:t-simple
• Russian: Template:t-simple, Template:t-simple
• Slovak: vypáliť
• Slovene: Template:t-simple
• Spanish: Template:t-simple
• Swahili: Template:t-simple
• Swedish: Template:t-simple
• Welsh: Template:t-simple

to drive away by setting a fire

• Finnish: Template:t-simple
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

to terminate the employment of

• Afrikaans: Template:t-simple
• Armenian: Template:t-simple, Template:t-simple
• Belarusian: звальня́ць impf (zvalʹnjácʹ), зво́льніць pf (zvólʹnicʹ)
• Bulgarian: уволня́вам (bg) impf (uvolnjávam)
• Catalan: Template:t-simple
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 解雇 (zh) (jiěgù), 開除／开除 (zh) (kāichú), 开除 (zh) (kāichú)

• Czech: Template:t-simple
• Danish: Template:t-simple, Template:t-simple, Template:t-simple
• Dutch: Template:t-simple
• Esperanto: Template:t-simple
• Finnish: Template:t-simple, antaa potkut
• French: licencier (fr), Template:t-simple, mettre à la porte (fr), Template:t-simple, Template:t-simple
• Galician: despedir, chimpar
• Georgian: გაგდება (gagdeba), დათხოვნა (datxovna), გაშვება (gašveba)
• German: feuern (de), Template:t-simple
• Greek: απολύω (el) (apolýo)
• Hebrew: פיטר (pitér)
• Hungarian: Template:t-simple
• Icelandic: Template:t-simple, segja upp, Template:t-simple
• Indonesian: Template:t-simple
• Italian: licenziare (it), Template:t-simple
• Japanese: 首を切る (くびをきる, kubi o kiru), 首にする (kubi ni suru)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Kapampangan: sisanti
• Khmer: បណ្ដេញចេញពីការងារ (bɑndəɲ cəɲ pii kaaŋie), ផ្លាស់ចេញពីមុខការ (plah cəɲ pii muk kaa), ដកងារ (dɑɑk ŋie), បញ្ឈប់ (km) (bɑɲcʰup)
• Macedonian: отпушта (otpušta)
• Maori: Template:t-simple
• Mongolian: огцруулах (mn) (ogcruulax)
• Norwegian: gi sparken, Template:t-simple, Template:t-simple
• Polish: zwolnić (pl) pf, zwalniać (pl) impf, (colloquial) wylać (pl) pf, wylewać (pl) impf
• Portuguese: despedir (pt), Template:t-simple
• Russian: увольня́ть (ru) impf (uvolʹnjátʹ), уво́лить (ru) pf (uvólitʹ)
• Slovak: vyhodiť, vyhadzovať
• Slovene: Template:t-simple
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: gódy daś

• Spanish: despedir (es), Template:t-simple, Template:t-simple, correr (es) (Mexico, colloquial)
• Swahili: kupiga risasi, Template:t-simple
• Swedish: sparka (sv) (informal), Template:t-simple
• Tagalog: sisante
• Telugu: ఉద్యోగం నుండి తొలగించు (udyōgaṁ nuṇḍi tolagiñcu)
• Thai: Template:t-simple
• Ukrainian: звільня́ти impf (zvilʹnjáty), звільни́ти pf (zvilʹnýty)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: Template:t-simple
• West Frisian: dien jaan
• Westrobothnian: , Template:t-simple

transitive: to shoot

• Afrikaans: Template:t-simple
• Armenian: կրակել (hy) (krakel)
• Belarusian: страля́ць impf (straljácʹ), стрэ́ліць pf (strélicʹ)
• Bulgarian: стрелям (bg) (streljam)
• Catalan: Template:t-simple
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發射／发射 (zh) (fāshè), 发射 (zh) (fāshè)

• Czech: Template:t-simple
• Danish: Template:t-simple
• Dutch: Template:t-simple
• Finnish: laukaista (fi), Template:t-simple
• French: Template:t-simple
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Template:t-simple
• Hebrew: ירה (he) (yaráh)
• Hindi: बजाना (hi) (bajānā)
• Hungarian: elsüt (hu)
• Indonesian: Template:t-simple
• Irish: Template:t-simple
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: Template:t-simple, fare fuoco
• Japanese: 発砲する (ja) (はっぽうする, happōsuru), 撃つ (ja) (utsu)
• Latvian: Template:t-simple
• Lithuanian: Template:t-simple, Template:t-simple
• Maori: Template:t-simple, Template:t-simple, whakapākūkū (repeatedly)
• Norwegian: Template:t-simple
• Portuguese: disparar (pt), Template:t-simple
• Russian: стреля́ть (ru) impf (streljátʹ), вы́стрелить (ru) pf (výstrelitʹ), пали́ть (ru) (palítʹ) (obsolete)
• Slovene: ustreliti (sl), Template:t-simple
• Spanish: disparar (es), Template:t-simple
• Swahili: kupiga risasi, Template:t-simple
• Swedish: Template:t-simple
• Telugu: కాల్చు (te) (kālcu)
• Thai: ยิง (th) (ying)
• Ukrainian: стріля́ти impf (striljáty)
• Welsh: saethu (cy), Template:t-simple
• West Frisian: Template:t-simple

intransitive: to shoot

• Armenian: կրակել (hy) (krakel)
• Belarusian: страля́ць impf (straljácʹ), стрэ́ліць pf (strélicʹ)
• Bulgarian: стрелям (bg) (streljam)
• Catalan: Template:t-simple
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 開火／开火 (zh) (kāihuǒ), 开火 (zh) (kāihuǒ), 射擊／射击 (zh) (shèjī), 射击 (zh) (shèjī, shèjí)

• Czech: Template:t-simple
• Danish: Template:t-simple, skyde (da)
• Dutch: vuren (nl), Template:t-simple
• Finnish: tulittaa (fi), Template:t-simple
• French: Template:t-simple, faire feu (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: feuern (de), Template:t-simple
• Hebrew: ירה (he) (yaráh)
• Hungarian: tüzel (hu)
• Indonesian: Template:t-simple
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: Template:t-simple, fare fuoco
• Japanese: 発射する (ja) (はっしゃする, hassha suru), 撃つ (ja) (utsu)
• Macedonian: пука (puka)
• Maori: Template:t-simple
• Norwegian: Template:t-simple
• Portuguese: Template:t-simple
• Russian: стреля́ть (ru) impf (streljátʹ), вы́стрелить (ru) pf (výstrelitʹ)
• Slovak: páliť, strieľať, vystreliť
• Slovene: ustreliti (sl), Template:t-simple
• Spanish: disparar (es), Template:t-simple
• Swahili: Template:t-simple
• Swedish: Template:t-simple, ge eld (sv)
• Thai: ยิง (th) (ying)
• Turkish: ateş etmek (tr)
• Ukrainian: стріля́ти impf (striljáty)
• Welsh: saethu (cy), Template:t-simple
• West Frisian: Template:t-simple

sport: to shoot, to attempt to score a goal

• Bulgarian: стрелям (bg) (streljam)
• Danish: skyde (da)
• Dutch: Template:t-simple
• Finnish: Template:t-simple
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Template:t-simple
• Indonesian: Template:t-simple
• Spanish: tirar (es), Template:t-simple
• Thai: ยิง (th) (ying)

physiology: to cause action potential in a cell

• Dutch: Template:t-simple
• Finnish: Template:t-simple
• German: Template:t-simple
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 発火する (hakkasuru)
• Norwegian: Template:t-simple
• Swahili: Template:t-simple

to forcibly direct

• Finnish: Template:t-simple
• Indonesian: Template:t-simple
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Slovak: bombardovať
• Telugu: వత్తిడి (te) (vattiḍi)

computer sciences / software engineering: to initiate an event

• Danish: udløse
• Finnish: laukaista (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Template:t-simple
• Slovak: spustiť

to inflame; to irritate, as the passions

• Finnish: Template:t-simple
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

to animate; to give life or spirit to

• Finnish: Template:t-simple, saada syttymään
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

to fire a boiler

• Finnish: Template:t-simple
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

to light up as if by fire

• Finnish: Template:t-simple
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

farriery: to cauterize — see cauterize

to catch fire; to be kindled

• Danish: antænde
• Finnish: Template:t-simple
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

to be irritated or inflamed with passion

• Danish: gløde
• Finnish: Template:t-simple
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} აალება (ka) (aaleba), ^{(please verify)} ინთება (inteba), ^{(please verify)} წაკიდება (c̣aḳideba), ^{(please verify)} სროლა (srola)
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• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} tirar (1), ^{(please verify)} dimitter (2)

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

fire (not comparable)

1. (slang) Amazing; excellent.

   That shit is fire, yo!

Translations

slang: amazing

• Danish: fantastisk
• Russian: клёвый (ru) (kljóvyj)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Further reading

• fire on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -fier, Fier, Frie, fier, refi, reif, rief, rife

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Asturian

Verb

(deprecated template usage) fire

1. third-person singular present indicative of firir

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Crimean Tatar

Noun

fire

1. shrinkage, loss
2. scrap

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Danish

Danish cardinal numbers

<  3	4	5  >
Cardinal : fire     Ordinal : fjerde

Etymology 1

From Old Norse fjórir, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiːrə/, [ˈfiːɐ]

Numeral

fire

1. four

Usage notes

In compounds: fir-.

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German fīren, from French virer (“bear, veer”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiːrə/, [ˈfiːɐ]

Verb

fire (imperative fir, infinitive at fire, present tense firer, past tense firede, perfect tense har firet)

1. to lower something fixed to a rope or something similar
   • 1871, Jens Andreas Friis, Lappisk Mythologi, page 138

     Saa gik han hen og firede Stenen og Vidietouget ned i Hullet.

     Then he went [to the hole] and lowered the rock and the wicker rope down into the hole.

   • 2014, Teddy Vork, Diget, Tellerup A/S →ISBN

     Han satte sig på knæ, famlede sig frem til tovet og vendte sig rundt så han havde ryggen til hullet, drejede overkroppen bagud, firede faklen ned i hullet.

     He kneeled, fumbled his way to the rope and turned around, such that his back was to the hole, twisted his torso backwards, lowered the torch into the hole.

Conjugation

Inflection of fire

	present	past
simple	firer	firede
perfect	har firet	havde firet
passive	fires	firedes
participle	-	firet
imperative	fir	—
infinitive	fire	—
auxiliary verb	have	—
gerund	—	—

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin fierī (“to become, be”), present active infinitive of fiō. Compare Romanian fi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.re/, [ˈfiːr̺e]
• Hyphenation: fì‧re

Verb

fire

1. (northern Italy, obsolete) to be

   Synonym: essere

Usage notes

• The only forms attested outside of ancient Northern Italian literature are the future fia (third-person singular) and fiano (third-person plural).

References

• fire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian cardinal numbers

<  3	4	5  >
Cardinal : fire     Ordinal : fjerde

Etymology 1

From Danish fire, Old Norse fjórir, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiːɾə/

Numeral

fire

1. four

Derived terms

Terms derived from fire (numeral)

• firedel
• firedoble
• firehjulsdrift

• firehjulstrekk
• firesylindret
• fireåring

• firkant
• firkløver
• firmenning

Related terms

• fjerde (ordinal)

Etymology 2

From French virer, via Middle Low German firen

Verb

fire (imperative fir, present tense firer, passive fires, simple past fira or firet or firte, past participle fira or firet or firt, present participle firende)

1. to slacken, ease
2. to lower (a flag)

References

• “fire” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse fjórir, via Danish fire.

Numeral

fire

1. four

Derived terms

• firedel
• firehjulsdrift
• fireåring, firåring
• firkant
• firkløver
• firmenning

 

Related terms

• fjerde (ordinal)

Etymology 2

From French virer, via Middle Low German firen.

Verb

fire

1. to slacken, ease
2. to lower (a flag)

References

• “fire” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Romanian

Etymology 1

Noun

fire n

1. plural of fir

Etymology 2

From fi +‎ -re.

Noun

fire f (plural firi)

1. essence, substance, nature

   Synonym: natură

2. character, temper, disposition

   Synonyms: caracter, temperament

3. mind

   Synonym: minte

Declension

Declension of fire

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) fire	firea	(niște) firi	firile
genitive/dative	(unei) firi	firii	(unor) firi	firilor
vocative	fire, fireo		firilor

Related terms

• firesc
• firește
• firetic

 

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Turkish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

fire (definite accusative fireyi, plural fireler)

1. wastage
2. outage
3. shrinkage, loss, loss in weight, decrease
4. turnover
5. ullage
6. leakage
7. waste, tret, deficiency

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	fire
Definite accusative	fireyi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fire	fireler
Definite accusative	fireyi	fireleri
Dative	fireye	firelere
Locative	firede	firelerde
Ablative	fireden	firelerden
Genitive	firenin	firelerin