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A cord of firewood.

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfaɪ.ə(ɹ).wʊd/
• • (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

firewood (countable and uncountable, plural firewoods)

1. 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.

• firewood-gatherer

• firewooding

• firewood rape

• fireplace

• wood burner

• woodfire

• woodfired

• woodstove

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

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 Bikol: 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

• Ewe: náke

• Finnish: polttopuu (fi), klapi (fi)

• French: bois de chauffage (fr) m

• Galician: leña (gl) f

• Georgian: შეშა (ka) (šeša)

• German: Brennholz (de) n, Feuerholz (de) n

• Greek: καυσόξυλα (el) n pl (kafsóxyla)
  Ancient Greek: 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

• Laz: დიშქა (dişka)

• 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)

• Māori: wahie, wahia, pīraka, pīrakaraka, pīraku, pīrahu

• Maybrat: rako

• 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

• Persian:
  Dari: هیزُم (fa) (hēzum)
  Iranian Persian: هیزُم (fa) (hizom), هیمِه (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)

• Tewa: son

• Thai: ฟืน (th) (fʉʉn)

• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can

• Tok Pisin: paiawut, diwai (tpi)

• Turkish: odun (tr)
  Ottoman Turkish: اوطون (odun)

• 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

• woodfire

Chinese Pidgin English

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• 快也𭉉 (Chinese spelling)

From English firewood.

firewood

1. 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.