false alarm

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39 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 虛驚 /虚惊 (xūjīng) — warning sound that turns out to be erroneous
• Chinese Mandarin: 誤警 /误警 (wùjǐng) — warning sound that turns out to be erroneous
• Chinese Mandarin: 假警報 /假警报 (jiǎjǐngbào) — warning sound that turns out to be erroneous
• Czech: planý poplach — warning sound that turns out to be erroneous
• Dutch: vals alarm — warning sound that turns out to be erroneous
• Finnish: väärä hälytys — warning sound that turns out to be erroneous
• French: fausse alarme — warning sound that turns out to be erroneous
• French: fausse alerte — warning sound that turns out to be erroneous
• Galician: falsa alarma — warning sound that turns out to be erroneous
• German: Fehlalarm — warning sound that turns out to be erroneous
• German: Falschmeldung — warning sound that turns out to be erroneous
• Hungarian: téves riasztás — warning sound that turns out to be erroneous
• Hungarian: hamis riasztás — warning sound that turns out to be erroneous
• Hungarian: vakriasztás — warning sound that turns out to be erroneous
• Indonesian: alarm palsu — warning sound that turns out to be erroneous
• Italian: falso allarme — warning sound that turns out to be erroneous
• Japanese: 虚報 (kyohō) — warning sound that turns out to be erroneous
• Polish: fałszywy alarm — warning sound that turns out to be erroneous
• Romanian: alarmă falsă — warning sound that turns out to be erroneous
• Russian: ло́жная трево́га (lóžnaja trevóga) — warning sound that turns out to be erroneous
• Serbo-Croatian: lažni alarm — warning sound that turns out to be erroneous
• Spanish: falsa alarma — warning sound that turns out to be erroneous
• Swedish: falskt alarm — warning sound that turns out to be erroneous
• Tagalog: tibadbad — warning sound that turns out to be erroneous
• Turkish: yanlış alarm — warning sound that turns out to be erroneous
• Vietnamese: báo động giả — warning sound that turns out to be erroneous
• Chinese Mandarin: 虛驚 /虚惊 (xūjīng) — thing or occurrence initially causing fear, etc. but subsequently seen to be no cause for concern
• Chinese Mandarin: 誤警 /误警 (wùjǐng) — thing or occurrence initially causing fear, etc. but subsequently seen to be no cause for concern
• Czech: planý poplach — thing or occurrence initially causing fear, etc. but subsequently seen to be no cause for concern
• Czech: falešný poplach — thing or occurrence initially causing fear, etc. but subsequently seen to be no cause for concern
• Finnish: väärä hälytys — thing or occurrence initially causing fear, etc. but subsequently seen to be no cause for concern
• French: fausse alarme — thing or occurrence initially causing fear, etc. but subsequently seen to be no cause for concern
• German: Fehlalarm — thing or occurrence initially causing fear, etc. but subsequently seen to be no cause for concern
• Hungarian: vaklárma — thing or occurrence initially causing fear, etc. but subsequently seen to be no cause for concern
• Japanese: 虚報 (kyohō) — thing or occurrence initially causing fear, etc. but subsequently seen to be no cause for concern
• Romanian: alarmă falsă — thing or occurrence initially causing fear, etc. but subsequently seen to be no cause for concern
• Russian: ло́жная трево́га (lóžnaja trevóga) — thing or occurrence initially causing fear, etc. but subsequently seen to be no cause for concern
• Swedish: falskt alarm — thing or occurrence initially causing fear, etc. but subsequently seen to be no cause for concern
• Tagalog: tibadbad — thing or occurrence initially causing fear, etc. but subsequently seen to be no cause for concern