fire hydrant

English

A traditional American-style fire hydrant.

Etymology

From fire +‎ hydrant.

Noun

fire hydrant (plural fire hydrants)

1. (firefighting) A device used by firefighters to obtain water from the main supply, consisting of a barrel, connections for hose and a valve assembly.

Translations

a device used by firefighters to obtain water from the main

• Arabic: صُنْبُور حَرِيق m (ṣunbūr ḥarīq), صُنْبُور اِطْفَاء حَرِيق m (ṣunbūr iṭfāʔ ḥarīq)
• Bulgarian: пожарен кран m (požaren kran), хидрант (bg) (hidrant)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 消防栓 (zh) (xiāofángshuān), 街井 (jiējǐng), 消防龍頭／消防龙头 (xiāofáng lóngtóu), 消防龙头 (xiāofáng lóngtóu), 消火栓 (zh) (xiāohuǒshuān)

• Czech: požární hydrant m, hydrant m
• Dutch: brandkraan (nl) f, hydrant (nl) m
• Esperanto: hidranto
• Estonian: tuletõrjehüdrant
• Finnish: paloposti (fi)
• French: borne d’incendie (fr) f, bouche d’incendie (fr) f (France), borne hydrante (fr) f (Switzerland), borne-fontaine (fr) f (Québec)
• German: Hydrant (de) m
• Greek: στόμιο υδροληψίας n (stómio ydrolipsías)
• Hungarian: tűzcsap (hu)
• Icelandic: brunahani m
• Italian: idrante (it)
• Japanese: 消火栓 (ja) (しょうかせん, shōkasen)
• Korean: 소화전 (ko) (sohwajeon)
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• Macedonian: хидра́нт m (hidránt)
• Navajo: kǫʼ bee niltsésí
• Polish: hydrant (pl) m
• Portuguese: hidrante (pt) m
• Russian: пожа́рный гидра́нт m (požárnyj gidránt), гидра́нт (ru) m (gidránt)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хидрант m

  Roman: hidrant (sh) m

• Slovak: hydrant m
• Spanish: hidrante m, boca de incendio f
• Swedish: brandpost c
• Tagalog: boka-insendiyo
• Thai: หัวดับเพลิง (hǔua-dàp-pləəng)
• Tibetan: མེ་གསོད་ཆུ་སྒོ། (me gsod chu sgo)
• Turkish: yangın musluğu (tr)
• Vietnamese: trụ cứu hỏa, trụ chữa cháy
• Yiddish: הידראַנט m (hidrant), לעשפּלומפּ m (leshplump)

See also

• fire engine
• fire extinguisher
• firefighter
• fireplug

Further reading

fire hydrant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia