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• General-American: /ˈɑɹsən/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɑːsən/
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• rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)sən
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• CMU ARPABET: AA1 R S AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Anglo-Norman and Old French arson, from the verb ardoir, from Latin ardeō (“to burn”). Compare ardent.

From Middle English arsoun, from Old French arçon, from Vulgar Latin *arciō (“saddlebow”), from Latin arcus (“bow”); compare Italian arcione, Portuguese arção, and Spanish arzón.

86 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: brandstigting — crime of setting a fire
• Arabic: حَرِيق مُتَعَمَّد (ḥarīq mutaʕammad) — crime of setting a fire
• Armenian: հրդեհում (hrdehum) — crime of setting a fire
• Armenian: հրկիզում (hrkizum) — crime of setting a fire
• Azerbaijani: qəsdən yandırma — crime of setting a fire
• Belarusian: падпа́л (padpál) — crime of setting a fire
• Bengali: অগ্নিকাণ্ড (ognikanḍo) — crime of setting a fire
• Bulgarian: пале́ж (paléž) — crime of setting a fire
• Catalan: incendi criminal — crime of setting a fire
• Chinese Cantonese: 丫臣 (aa1 san4, aa1 san2) — crime of setting a fire
• Chinese Cantonese: 放火 (fong3 fo2) — crime of setting a fire
• Chinese Mandarin: 縱火 /纵火 (zònghuǒ) — crime of setting a fire
• Chinese Mandarin: 放火 (fànghuǒ) — crime of setting a fire
• Czech: žhářství — crime of setting a fire
• Danish: brandstiftelse — crime of setting a fire
• Danish: pyromanbrand — crime of setting a fire
• Danish: ildspåsættelse — crime of setting a fire
• Dutch: brandstichting — crime of setting a fire
• Esperanto: brulkrimo — crime of setting a fire
• Esperanto: krimfajro — crime of setting a fire
• Estonian: süütamine — crime of setting a fire
• Faroese: eldáseting — crime of setting a fire
• Finnish: tuhopoltto — crime of setting a fire
• Finnish: syttyminen — crime of setting a fire
• Finnish: sytyttäminen — crime of setting a fire
• French: incendie criminel — crime of setting a fire
• French: incendie — crime of setting a fire
• Georgian: ცეცხლის წაკიდება (cecxlis c̣aḳideba) — crime of setting a fire
• German: Brandstiftung — crime of setting a fire
• German: Brandlegung — crime of setting a fire
• Greek: εμπρησμός (emprismós) — crime of setting a fire
• Hebrew: הַצָּתָה (hatsatá) — crime of setting a fire
• Hindi: आगज़नी (āgzanī) — crime of setting a fire
• Hindi: अग्निकांड (agnikāṇḍ) — crime of setting a fire
• Hungarian: gyújtogatás — crime of setting a fire
• Icelandic: íkveikja — crime of setting a fire
• Indonesian: pembakaran disengaja — crime of setting a fire
• Irish: coirloscadh — crime of setting a fire
• Italian: incendio doloso — crime of setting a fire
• Japanese: 放火 (hōka) — crime of setting a fire
• Japanese: 放火罪 (hōkazai) — crime of setting a fire
• Korean: 방화 (banghwa) — crime of setting a fire
• Lithuanian: padegimas — crime of setting a fire
• Luxembourgish: Brandstëftung — crime of setting a fire
• Macedonian: опожарување (opožaruvanje) — crime of setting a fire
• Macedonian: палеж (palež) — crime of setting a fire
• Marathi: जाळपोळ (jāḷpoḷ) — crime of setting a fire
• Norwegian Bokmål: brannstiftelse — crime of setting a fire
• Norwegian Bokmål: mordbrann — crime of setting a fire
• Norwegian Bokmål: ildspåsettelse — crime of setting a fire
• Norwegian Nynorsk: brannstifting — crime of setting a fire
• Norwegian Nynorsk: eldspåsetjing — crime of setting a fire
• Old English: bærnet — crime of setting a fire
• Iranian Persian: آتِشاَفْروزی (âteš-afruzi) — crime of setting a fire
• Iranian Persian: آتِشْزَنی (âtešzani) — crime of setting a fire
• Polish: podpalenie — crime of setting a fire
• Portuguese: incêndio criminoso — crime of setting a fire
• Punjabi: ਅਗਨੀਕਾੰਡ (aganīkāṇḍ) — crime of setting a fire
• Romanian: incendiere — crime of setting a fire
• Russian: поджо́г (podžóg) — crime of setting a fire
• Serbo-Croatian: па́леж — crime of setting a fire
• Serbo-Croatian: pálež — crime of setting a fire
• Slovak: podpaľačstvo — crime of setting a fire
• Slovene: požig — crime of setting a fire
• Spanish: incendio provocado — crime of setting a fire
• Spanish: incendio premeditado — crime of setting a fire
• Spanish: delito de incendio — crime of setting a fire
• Spanish: incendio intencional — crime of setting a fire
• Spanish: crimen incendiario — crime of setting a fire
• Spanish: incendio pirómano — crime of setting a fire
• Spanish: incendio piromaníaco — crime of setting a fire
• Spanish: incendio criminal — crime of setting a fire
• Spanish: incendio malicioso — crime of setting a fire
• Spanish: incendio delictivo — crime of setting a fire
• Spanish: incendio delictuoso — crime of setting a fire
• Swedish: mordbrand — crime of setting a fire
• Swedish: antändning — crime of setting a fire
• Turkish: kundaklama — crime of setting a fire
• Turkish: kundakçılık — crime of setting a fire
• Ukrainian: підпа́л (pidpál) — crime of setting a fire
• Urdu: آتِش زَدَگی (ātiś zadagī) — crime of setting a fire
• Urdu: آتِش زَنی (ātiś zanī) — crime of setting a fire
• Vietnamese: phóng hỏa — crime of setting a fire
• Vietnamese: đốt phá — crime of setting a fire
• Walloon: målfeu (metou) — crime of setting a fire
• Welsh: llosgi — crime of setting a fire