furnace

English

An oil furnace for heating a building

Etymology

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From Middle English forneys, borrowed from Old French fornais (French fournaise), from Latin fornāx.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɝnɪs/
• IPA^(key): /ˈfɜːnɪs/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

furnace (plural furnaces)

1. (UK) An industrial heating device, e.g. for smelting metal or baking ceramics.
2. (US, Canada) A device that provides heat for a building; a space heater.
3. (colloquial) Any area that is excessively hot.
4. (figurative) A place or time of punishment, affliction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
   • c. 1530 William Tyndale, Tyndale Bible, Deuteronomy 4:20:

     For the Lorde toke you and broughte you out of the yernen fornace of Egipte, to be vnto him a people of enheritaunce, as it is come to passe this daye.

Translations

device for heating — see oven

device for heating in a factory, melting metals, etc

• Armenian: հնոց (hy) (hnocʻ), քուրա (hy) (kʻura)

  Old Armenian: բով (bov)

• Belarusian: печ f (pječ), то́пка f (tópka)
• Bulgarian: пещ (bg) f (pešt)
• Chichewa: ng'anjo
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 爐子／炉子 (zh) (lúzi), 炉子 (zh) (lúzi), 熔爐／熔炉 (zh) (rónglú), 熔炉 (zh) (rónglú), 爐／炉 (zh) (lú), 炉 (zh) (lú)

• Czech: pec (cs) f
• Dutch: oven (nl) m, ketel (nl) m
• Finnish: sulatusuuni, ahjo (fi), uuni (fi), masuuni (fi)
• French: four (fr) m, haut fourneau (fr) m
• Galician: forno (gl) m
• German: Ofen (de) m, Hochofen (de) m, Schmelzofen (de) m
• Greek: καμίνι (el) n (kamíni), φούρνος (el) m (foúrnos)

  Ancient: κάμινος f (káminos)

• Hungarian: kemence (hu), kohó (hu)
• Irish: foirnéis f
• Italian: fornace (it) f, bruciatore (it) m, caldaia (it) f
• Japanese: 窯 (ja) (かま, kama), 溶鉱炉 (ようこうろ, yōkōro), 炉 (ja) (ろ, ro)
• Korean: 노 (ko) (no), 용광로 (yonggwangno)
• Latin: fornax f
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• Ligurian: fornâxe f
• Macedonian: печка f (pečka)
• Maori: tahunga
• Mongolian: пийшин (mn) (piišin)
• Persian: کوره (fa) (kure)
• Polish: piec (pl) f
• Portuguese: forno (pt) m, fornalha (pt) f
• Romanian: furnal (ro) n
• Russian: печь (ru) f (pečʹ), горн (ru) m (gorn), до́мна (ru) f (dómna), то́пка (ru) f (tópka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пећ f

  Roman: peć (sh) f

• Slovak: vyhňa f, pec f
• Slovene: peč (sl) f
• Spanish: horno (es) m, caldera (es) f
• Swedish: masugn (sv) c
• Tagalog: dapugan
• Turkish: fırın (tr), yüksek fırın (tr)
• Ukrainian: піч f (pič), то́пка f (tópka)
• Vietnamese: lò (vi), lò sưởi (vi)

device for heating a building

• Dutch: ketel (nl) m
• Finnish: uuni (fi), lämmitysuuni (fi), pannu (fi)
• French: chaudière (fr) f
• Galician: calefacción (gl) f
• German: Ofen (de) m, Heizung (de) f
• Hungarian: kályha (hu), kazán (hu)
• Irish: foirnéis f
• Italian: caldaia (it) f, bruciatore (it) m
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• Manx: furnish m
• Portuguese: fornalha (pt) f
• Russian: печь (ru) f (pečʹ)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kamjeny pl

• Spanish: calefacción (es) f
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

hot area

• Bulgarian: фу́рна f (fúrna)
• Finnish: pätsi (fi)
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• Greek: καμίνι (el) n (kamíni), φούρνος (el) m (foúrnos)
• Russian: то́пка (ru) f (tópka), печь (ru) f (pečʹ), пе́чка (ru) f (péčka)

Verb

1. To heat in a furnace.
2. To exhale like a furnace.

Anagrams

• Fraunce