flamethrower

See also: flame thrower

English

Alternative forms

• flame thrower
• flame-thrower

Etymology

From flame +‎ thrower, calque of German Flammenwerfer.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfleɪmˌθɹəʊ.ə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfleɪmˌθɹoʊ.ɚ/

Noun

flamethrower (plural flamethrowers)

1. A device that projects a flame for starting fires, and sometimes also additional fuel to help ignition. Used either as a weapon or a tool.

Translations

device that projects a flame

• Arabic: قَاذِفَة لَهَب‎ f (qāḏifat lahab)
• Armenian: հրանետ (hy) (hranet)
• Azerbaijani: odsaçan
• Basque: su-jaurtigailu
• Belarusian: агнямёт m (ahnjamjót)
• Bulgarian: огнехвърга́чка f (ognehvǎrgáčka)
• Catalan: llançaflames m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 火焰噴射器／火焰喷射器 (zh) (huǒyàn pēnshèqì), 噴火器／喷火器 (zh) (pēnhuǒqì)

• Corsican: zirlafiare m
• Czech: plamenomet (cs) m
• Danish: flammekaster c
• Dutch: vlammenwerper (nl) m
• Esperanto: flamĵetilo
• Estonian: leegiheitja
• Finnish: liekinheitin (fi)
• French: lance-flamme (fr) m
• Galician: lanzachamas m
• Georgian: ცეცხლსატყორცნები (cecxlsaṭq̇orcnebi)
• German: Flammenwerfer (de) m
• Greek: φλογοβόλο (el) n (flogovólo)
• Hebrew: לַהַבְיוֹר‎ (he) m (lahavyór)
• Hungarian: lángszóró (hu)
• Icelandic: eldvarpa f
• Indonesian: pelontar api
• Interlingua: lanceaflammas
• Irish: teilgeoir lasrach
• Italian: lanciafiamme m
• Japanese: 火炎放射器 (ja) (かえんほうしゃき, kaenhōshaki)
• Kazakh: отшашар (otşaşar)
• Korean: 화염방사기(火焰放射器) (hwayeombangsagi)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: agiravêj (ku)

• Latvian: liesmu metējs
• Lithuanian: liepsnosvaidis m
• Macedonian: пламенофр́лач m (plamenofŕlač)
• Norman: lanche-fliambes m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flammekaster m

• Occitan: lançaflamas m, lança-eslamas m, lançahuec m
• Persian: شعله‌افکن‎ (šo'le-afkan)
• Polish: miotacz ognia m, miotacz płomieni m
• Portuguese: lança-chamas m
• Romanian: aruncător de flăcări (ro) m
• Romansch: bittaflommas m
• Russian: огнемёт (ru) m (ognemjót)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пламенобацач m, бацач пламена m

  Roman: plamenobacač m, bacač plamena m

• Slovak: plameňomet m
• Slovene: plamenomet m
• Sorbian:

  Lower: wognjochytak m

  Upper: wohnjomjet, wohnjomjetak, płomjenjomjetadło

• Spanish: lanzallamas (es) m
• Swedish: eldkastare (sv) c
• Tajik: оташандоз (otašandoz)
• Tamil: தழல் வீசி (taḻal vīci)
• Turkish: alev makinesi (tr)
• Ukrainian: вогнеме́т m (vohnemét)
• Uzbek: oʻtsochar (uz)
• Vietnamese: súng phun lửa