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Firefighters.

From fire +‎ fighter. Created as a gender-neutral term for fireman and firewoman.

• (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfaɪə(ɹ)ˌfaɪ.tə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA(key): /ˈfaɪ.ɚˌfaɪ.tɚ/

firefighter (plural firefighters)

1. (firefighting) A person who has been trained to put out fires.
   Synonyms: fireperson, smoke eater
   Antonym: firestarter
   Hypernym: person
   Hyponyms: fireman (often broadly synonymous), firewoman, hotshot, smokejumper, wildfire-fighter
   • 2014 September 19, Andrew Gumbel, “California's burning up: firefighters rush to the scene as major wildfires scorch the state”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
     A firefighter puts water on a burning tree as flames approach a containment line, while fighting the King fire near Fresh Pond, California. […] More than 4,000 firefighters have rushed to the scene from around the country deploying planes, helicopters and hundreds of thousands of gallons of water and fire retardant.

• nonfirefighter

• fire engine

• fire extinguisher

• fire hose

• fire hydrant

• firestriker

• fire truck

person who puts out fires

• Afrikaans: brandweerman sg

• Albanian: zjarrfikës (sq) m

• Arabic: إِطْفَائِيّ m (ʔiṭfāʔiyy)

• Aramaic:
  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܲܟ̰ܡܸܥܵܢܵܐ m (māčmiʿana), ܡܲܟ̰ܡܸܥܵܢܬܵܐ f (māčmiʿanta)

• Armenian: հրշեջ (hy) (hršeǰ)

• Asturian: bomberu m

• Azerbaijani: yanğınsöndürən

• Basque: suhiltzaile (eu)

• Belarusian: пажа́рны m (pažárny), пажа́рнік m (pažárnik)

• Breton: pomper m, paotr an tan m

• Bulgarian: пожарника́р m (požarnikár), пожарника́рка f (požarnikárka)

• Catalan: bomber (ca) m, bombera (ca) f

• Cheyenne: éno'továhenéhe

• Chichewa: ozimitsa moto

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 消防隊員 / 消防队员 (zh) (xiāofáng duìyuán), 消防員 / 消防员 (zh) (xiāofángyuán), 消拯員 / 消拯员 (xiāozhěngyuán) (Malaysia)

• Czech: hasič (cs) m, hasička f, požárník (cs) m, požárnice f

• Danish: brandmand (da) c

• Dutch: brandweerman (nl) m, brandweervrouw (nl) f

• Esperanto: fajroestingisto, fajrobrigadano, fajrobrigadisto

• Estonian: tuletõrjuja

• Finnish: palomies (fi), pelastaja (fi), palontorjuja

• French: pompier (fr) m, pompière (fr) f

• Galician: bombeiro (gl) m, bombeira f

• Georgian: მეხანძრე (mexanʒre)

• German: Feuerwehrmann (de) m, Feuerwehrfrau (de) f

• Greek: πυροσβέστης (el) m (pyrosvéstis)

• Hawaiian: kanaka kinai ahi

• Hebrew: כַּבַּאי (he) m (kabái), כַּבָּאִית (he) f (kabaít), לוחם אש m (loḥém esh), לוחמת אש f (loḥémet esh)

• Hindi: अग्निशमक m (agniśmak)

• Hungarian: tűzoltó (hu)

• Icelandic: slökkviliðsmaður (is) m

• Indonesian: pemadam kebakaran (id)

• Ingrian: požarnoi

• Italian: vigile del fuoco (it) m, pompiere (it) m

• Japanese: 消防士 (ja) (しょうぼうし, shōbōshi), 消防隊員 (しょうぼうたいいん, shōbō taiin)

• Kazakh: өрт сөндіруші (ört söndıruşı)

• Khmer: អ្នកលត់ភ្លើង (nĕək lŭət phləəng)

• Korean: 소방수(消防手) (ko) (sobangsu), 소방관(消防官) (ko) (sobanggwan)

• Kurdish:
  Northern Kurdish: agirkuj (ku)

• Ladin: destudafuech m or f

• Latin: siphonarius m, vigil ignis m or f

• Latvian: ugunsdzēsējs m

• Lithuanian: gaisrininkas m, gaisrininkė f

• Luxembourgish: Pompjee m

• Macedonian: пожарникар m (požarnikar), пожарникарка f (požarnikarka)

• Malay: ahli bomba

• Māori: kaitinei ahi

• Mongolian:
  Cyrillic: гал сөнөөгч (gal sönöögč)

• Navajo: kǫʼ yiniłtsésí

• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: brannkonstabel m, brannmann (no) m
  Nynorsk: brannkonstabel m, brannmann m

• Ojibwe: aateʼishkodawewinini

• Pannonian Rusyn: огньогашец m (ohnʹohašec)

• Persian:
  Iranian Persian: آتَش‌نِشان (âtaš-nešân), مَأْمورِ آتَش‌نِشان (ma'mur-e âtaš-nešân)

• Polish: strażak (pl) m, strażaczka f (rare)

• Portuguese: bombeiro (pt) m, bombeira f

• Romanian: pompier (ro) m

• Russian: пожа́рный (ru) m (požárnyj), пожа́рная (ru) f (požárnaja), пожа́рник (ru) m (požárnik), пожа́рница (ru) f (požárnica), огнеборец (ru) (ogneborec)

• Sami:
  Northern Sami: jáddadeaddji

• Samoan: please add this translation if you can

• Scottish Gaelic: neach-smàlaidh m

• Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: ватрога́сац m
  Latin: vatrogásac (sh) m

• Slovak: hasič (sk) m, hasička f, požiarnik m, požiarnička f

• Slovene: gasilec (sl) m, gasilka f

• Spanish: bombero (es) m, bombera (es) f

• Swahili: mzimamoto

• Swedish: brandman (sv) c, brandsoldat (sv) c

• Tagalog: bumbero (tl), tagapatay-sunog

• Tajik: муборизи оташ (muboriz-i otaš), сӯхторхомушкунӣ (süxtorxomuškuni)

• Tetum: bombeiru

• Thai: พนักงานดับเพลิง (pá-nák-ngaan-dàp-pləəng)

• Tibetan: མེ་གསོད་མཁན (me gsod mkhan)

• Tongan: tangata tāmate-afi

• Turkish: itfaiyeci (tr), yangıncı (tr)
  Ottoman Turkish: یانغینجی (yangıncı)

• Ukrainian: поже́жник m (požéžnyk), поже́жний m (požéžnyj), вогнебо́рець m (vohnebórecʹ)

• Uzbek: oʻchiruvchi (uz)

• Vietnamese: lính cứu hỏa

• Volapük: lefilapoldan (vo) m or f, lefilahipoldan m, lefilajipoldan f

• Welsh: tân-ddiffoddwr m

• Yiddish: פֿײַערלעשער m (fayerlesher)

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