firewood

English

Etymology

From Middle English ferwode, fyrewoode, equivalent to fire +‎ wood.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪ.ə(ɹ).wʊd/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (triphthong smoothing) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ə(ɹ).wʊd/, /ˈfaː(ɹ).wʊd/, /ˈfɑ.ə(ɹ).wʊd/, /ˈfɑ.əː(ɹ).wʊd/
(General American) enPR: fīʹərwo͝od, fīr, IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪ.ɚ.wʊd/, [ˈfaɪ.ɚ.wʊd]
(Southern US, Appalachia) IPA^(key): [ˈfäː.ɚ.wʊd]
(General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈfɑe.ə(ɹ).wʊd/
Rhymes: -ʊd
Hyphenation: fire‧wood

Noun

firewood (countable and uncountable, plural firewoods)

Wood intended to be burned, typically for heat.
Hypernym: fuel

Hyponym: firelog

Coordinate terms: kindling, tinder

After many days of hard work, we finally had enough firewood for the winter.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Chinese Pidgin English: firewood, 快也𭉉 (Chinese spelling)

Translations

wood intended to be burned, typically for heat

Ainu: アベチクニ (abechikuni)
Albanian: karthi f
Apache:
Western Apache: bichizh
Arabic: حَطَب m (ḥaṭab)
Egyptian Arabic: حطب m (ḥaṭab)
Armenian: վառելափայտ (hy) (vaṙelapʻayt), ցախ (hy) (cʻax)
Assamese: খৰি (khori)
Asturian: lleña (ast) f
Avar: цӏцӏул (ccʼul)
Azerbaijani: odun (az)
Bashkir: утын (utın)
Belarusian: дро́вы n pl (dróvy)
Bengali: জ্বাল (bn) (jal)
Bikol Central: igatong
Bulgarian: дърва́ за горе́не pl (dǎrvá za goréne), 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) (cháihé)
Chinese Pidgin English: firewood
Cree: mihti
Czech: palivové dříví n, dříví (cs) n (wood)
Danish: ved (da) n, brænde (da) n, brændsel
Dutch: brandhout (nl) n
Esperanto: brulligno
Estonian: lõkkepuud pl
Finnish: polttopuu (fi), klapi (fi)
French: bois de chauffage (fr) m
Galician: leña f
Georgian: შეშა (ka) (šeša)
German: Brennholz (de) n, Feuerholz (de) n
Greek: καυσόξυλα (el) n pl (kafsóxyla)
Ancient: φρύγανα n pl (phrúgana)
Gujarati: જળણ n (jaḷṇa), ઇંધન n (indhan), બળતણ n (baḷtaṇ), ઈંધણ n (ī̃dhaṇ), એંધણાં n pl (endhaṇā̃) (North Gujarat)
Hebrew: עֲצֵי הַסָּקָה m (ets hasaká)
Hindi: लकड़ी (hi) f (lakṛī)
Hungarian: tűzifa (hu), tüzelőfa (hu)
Icelandic: eldiviður (is) m
Indonesian: kayu bakar (id)
Irish: adhmad tine m
Italian: legna (it) f, legna da ardere f
Japanese: 薪 (ja) (まき, maki, たきぎ, takigi)
Jeju: 짇을낭 (jideullang), 장작 (jangjak)
Kapampangan: panangab
Kazakh: отын (otyn)
Khmer: អុស (ʼoh), ឧស (km) (ʼoh), សមិន្ធន៍ (km) (saʼmɨn)
Korean: 땔나무 (ko) (ttaellamu), 장작(長斫) (ko) (jangjak)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ھێزِم (hêzim)

Northern Kurdish: êzing (ku)

Southern Kurdish: لێزمە (ku) (lêzme)
Kyrgyz: отун (ky) (otun)
Lao: ຟຶນ (fưn)
Latin: cremium n, lignum (la) n
Latvian: malka (lv) f
Lithuanian: malkos
Luxembourgish: Brennholz n
Macedonian: др́ва n pl (dŕva), огревно дрво n (ogrevno drvo)
Malagasy: kitày (mg)
Malay: kayu api
Malayalam: വിറക് (ml) (viṟakŭ)
Maori: wahie, wahia, pīraka, pīrakaraka, pīraku, pīrahu
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: түлш (mn) (tülš)
Mwani: uni, lukuni
Navajo: chizh
Nepali: दाउरा (ne) (dāurā)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ved (no) m

Nynorsk: ved m
Occitan: lenha (oc) f
Ojibwe: mishi
Oromo: qoraan
Ottoman Turkish: اوطون (odun)
Persian: هیزم (fa) (hêzom), هیمه (fa) (hime)
Plautdietsch: Brennholt n
Polish: drewno na opał n, drwa (pl) nvir pl
Portuguese: lenha (pt) f
Quechua: yanta
Romanian: lemne de foc n pl
Russian: дрова́ (ru) n pl (drová), поле́нья (ru) n pl (polénʹja)
Sanskrit: एध (sa) m (edha)
Scots: eldin, elding
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: дрва n pl, скосје n

Latin: drva (sh) n pl, skosje n
Slovak: palivové drevo n, drevo (sk) n (wood)
Slovene: drva n pl
Spanish: leña (es) f, escarabaja f (small)
Swahili: kuni (sw)
Swazi: lukhuni
Swedish: ved (sv) c, bränsle (sv) n, brasved c
Tagalog: panggatong
Tajik: ҳезум (hezum)
Tamil: விறகு (ta) (viṟaku)
Tarifit: ašeḥruf m
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: لَکْڑی f (lakṛī)
Uyghur: ئوتۇن (otun)
Uzbek: oʻtin (uz)
Vietnamese: củi (vi)
Volapük: filaboad, filamaboad (vo)
Welsh: tanwydd (cy) m
Yámana: touwa
Yiddish: ברענהאָלץ n (brenholts)
Yoruba: igi ìdáná
Zulu: ukhuni
ǃXóõ: ǀʻàã

Anagrams

woodfire

Chinese Pidgin English

Alternative forms

快也𭉉 (Chinese spelling)

Etymology

From English firewood.

Noun

firewood

firewood
- 1862, 唐景星 [Tong King-sing], 英語集全 [Chinese English Instructor], volume VI, marginalia, page 34; republished as “Pidgin English texts from the Chinese English Instructor”, in Michelle Li, Stephen Matthews, Geoff P. Smith, editors, Hong Kong Journal of Applied Linguistics‎^[1], volume 10, number 1, 2005, pages 79-167:
  
  涉𪢍治快也𭉉窩打
  *ship³ get³ zhi⁶ faai³ jaa⁵ wut⁶ wo¹ daa²
  Ship catchee firewood, water.
  The ships provides^[sic] wood and water.