fireworks
English dictionary entry
Meanings
noun
- plural of firework.
noun
- An event or a display where fireworks are set off.
- A boisterous or violent event or situation.
Pronunciation
/ˈfaɪ̯.ə.wɜːks/
/ˈfaɪ̯.ɚ.wɝks/
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Etymology
From fire + work(s). The similarity with Dutch vuurwerk and German Feuerwerk, both “fireworks”, is hardly coincidental. Since the word was apparently first attested in English circa 1575, probably from the Dutch (1540), from the German (sense early 16th c.), from Middle High German viurwerc (14th c. as “fuel, firewood”). A spread from the south northwards is also in line with the fact that the first European fireworks were produced in Italy in the late 14th century.
Translations
Albanian: fishekzjarr
Arabic: مُفَرْقِعَات
Arabic: أَلْعَاب نَارِيَّة
Arabic: طراطيع
Belarusian: феерве́ркі
Belarusian: фаервэ́ркі
Bulgarian: фойерверк
Catalan: focs artificials
Chinese Cantonese: 煙花 /烟花
Chinese Mandarin: 花炮
Chinese Mandarin: 煙火 /烟火
Czech: ohňostroje
Danish: fyrværkeri
Dutch: vuurwerk
Elfdalian: fyrwerkeri
Esperanto: fajraĵo
Esperanto: artfajraĵo
Faroese: fýrverk
Faroese: eldverk
Finnish: ilotulitus
French: feux d'artifice
German: Feuerwerk
Greek: πυροτεχνήματα
Greenlandic: qummoroortaatit
Gujarati: ફટાકડા
Hebrew: זִיקּוּקֵי דִּי־נוּר
Hungarian: tűzijáték
Icelandic: flugeldar
Indonesian: kembang api
Irish: tinte ealaíne
Italian: fuochi d'artificio
Japanese: 花火
Korean: 불꽃놀이
Latvian: uguņošana
Lithuanian: fejerverkai
Luxembourgish: Freedefeier
Macedonian: огномет
Malay: bunga api
Maltese: logħob tan-nar
Māori: pahū ahi
Navajo: naaltsoos dildoní
Navajo: naaltsoos dilchxoshí
Norwegian Bokmål: fyrverkerier
Polish: fajerwerki
Polish: sztuczne ognie
Portuguese: fogos de artifício
Romanian: foc de artificii
Romansh: fieu artifizial
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