English
Etymology
fire + wood
Noun
firewood (countable and uncountable, plural firewoods)
- Wood intended to be burned, typically for heat.
- After many days of hard work, we finally had enough firewood for the winter.
Descendants
Translations
wood intended to be burned, typically for heat
- Ainu: アベチクニ (abechikuni)
- Albanian: drur m
- Apache:
- Western Apache: bichizh
- Arabic: حَطَب m (ḥaṭab)
- Egyptian Arabic: حطب m (ḥaṭab)
- Armenian: վառելափայտ (hy) (vaṙelapʻayt), ցախ (hy) (cʻax)
- Assamese: খৰি (khori)
- Avar: цӏцӏул (ccʼul)
- Azerbaijani: odun (az)
- Bashkir: утын (utın)
- Belarusian: дро́вы n pl (dróvy)
- Bengali: জ্বাল (jal)
- Bulgarian: дърва́ за горене pl (dǎrvá za gorene), дърва́ (bg) pl (dǎrvá)
- Burmese: ထင်း (my) (htang:)
- Catalan: llenya (ca) f
- Chamicuro: kajchi
- Chichewa: nkhuni
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 柴火 (zh) (cháihuo), 木柴 (zh) (mùchái), 柴禾 (zh) (cháihe)
- Czech: palivové dříví n
- Danish: ved (da) n, brænde (da) n, brændsel
- Dutch: brandhout (nl) n
- Estonian: lõkkepuud pl
- Finnish: polttopuu (fi)
- French: bois de chauffage (fr) m
- Galician: leña f
- Georgian: შეშა (šeša)
- German: Brennholz (de) n, Feuerholz (de) n
- Greek: καυσόξυλα (el) n pl (kafsóxyla)
- Ancient: φρύγανα n pl (phrúgana)
- Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
- Hindi: लकड़ी (hi) f (lakṛī)
- Hungarian: tűzifa (hu), tüzelőfa
- Icelandic: eldiviður (is) m
- Indonesian: kayu bakar (id)
- Irish: adhmad tine m
- Italian: legna (it) f, legna da ardere f
- Japanese: 薪 (ja) (たきぎ, takigi)
- Kazakh: отын (otyn)
- Khmer: អុស (ʼoh), ឧស (km) (ʼoh), សមិន្ធន៍ (km) (saʼmɨn)
- Korean: 땔나무 (ko) (ttaellamu), 장작 (ko) (jangjak)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ھێزِم (hêzim)
- Northern Kurdish: êzing (ku)
- Southern Kurdish: لێزمە (lêzme)
- Kyrgyz: отун (ky) (otun)
- Lao: ຟຶນ (fưn)
- Latin: cremium n, lignum (la) n
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- Latvian: malka f
- Lithuanian: malkos
- Luxembourgish: Brennholz n
- Macedonian: дрва n pl (drva), дрва за о́грев pl (drva za ógrev)
- Malagasy: kitày (mg)
- Malay: kayu api
- Maori: wahie, wahia, pīraka, pīrakaraka, pīraku, pīrahu
- Mongolian: түлш (mn) (tülš)
- Mwani: lukuni
- Navajo: chizh
- Norwegian: ved (no) m
- Persian: هیزم (fa) (hêzom), هیمه (fa) (hime)
- Plautdietsch: Brennholt n
- Polish: drewno na opał n, drwa (pl) pl
- Portuguese: lenha (pt) f
- Quechua: yanta
- Romanian: lemne de foc n pl
- Russian: дрова́ (ru) n pl (drová), поле́нья (ru) n pl (polénʹja)
- Scots: eldin, elding
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: дрва n pl, скосје n
- Latin: drva (sh) n pl, skosje n
- Slovak: palivové drevo n
- Slovene: drva n pl
- Spanish: leña (es) f
- Swahili: kuni (sw)
- Swazi: lukhuni
- Swedish: ved (sv) c, bränsle (sv) n
- Tajik: ҳезум (hezum)
- Tamil: விறகு (ta) (viṟaku)
- Tatar: утын (tt) (utın)
- Thai: ฟืน (th) (fʉʉn)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Tok Pisin: paiawut, diwai (tpi)
- Turkish: odun (tr)
- Turkmen: odun
- Ukrainian: дро́ва n pl (dróva)
- Urdu: لکڑی f (lakṛī)
- Uyghur: ئوتۇن (otun)
- Uzbek: oʻtin (uz)
- Vietnamese: củi (vi)
- Volapük: filaboad, filamaboad (vo)
- Welsh: tanwydd (cy) m
- Yiddish: ברענהאָלץ n (brenholts)
- Yámana: touwa
- Zulu: ukhuni
- ǃXóõ: ǀʻàã
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Etymology
From English firewood.
Noun
firewood
- firewood
1862, T‘ong Ting-Kü, Ying Ü Tsap T’sün, or The Chinese and English Instructor, volume 6, Canton:涉𪢍治快也𭉉窩打- Sip3 get3 zi6 faai3 jaa5 wut6 wo1 daa2.
- The ships provides[sic] wood and water.
- (literally, “Ship catchee firewood, water.”)
