fireworks

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfaɪ̯.ə.wɜːks/
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• General-American: /ˈfaɪ̯.ɚ.wɝks/
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• CMU ARPABET: F AY1 R W ER2 K S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From fire + work(s). The similarity with Dutch vuurwerk and German Feuerwerk, both “fireworks”, is hardly coincidental. Since the word was apparently first attested in English circa 1575, probably from the Dutch (1540), from the German (sense early 16th c.), from Middle High German viurwerc (14th c. as “fuel, firewood”). A spread from the south northwards is also in line with the fact that the first European fireworks were produced in Italy in the late 14th century.

101 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: fishekzjarr — plural of firework
• Arabic: مُفَرْقِعَات (mufarqiʕāt) — plural of firework
• Arabic: أَلْعَاب نَارِيَّة (ʔalʕāb nāriyya) — plural of firework
• Arabic: طراطيع (ṭarāṭīʕ) — plural of firework
• Belarusian: феерве́ркі (fjejervjérki) — plural of firework
• Belarusian: фаервэ́ркі (fajervérki) — plural of firework
• Bulgarian: фойерверк (fojerverk) — plural of firework
• Catalan: focs artificials — plural of firework
• Chinese Cantonese: 煙花 /烟花 (jin1 faa1) — plural of firework
• Chinese Mandarin: 花炮 (huāpào) — plural of firework
• Chinese Mandarin: 煙火 /烟火 (yānhuǒ) — plural of firework
• Czech: ohňostroje — plural of firework
• Danish: fyrværkeri — plural of firework
• Dutch: vuurwerk — plural of firework
• Elfdalian: fyrwerkeri — plural of firework
• Esperanto: fajraĵo — plural of firework
• Esperanto: artfajraĵo — plural of firework
• Faroese: fýrverk — plural of firework
• Faroese: eldverk — plural of firework
• Finnish: ilotulitus — plural of firework
• French: feux d'artifice — plural of firework
• German: Feuerwerk — plural of firework
• Greek: πυροτεχνήματα (pyrotechnímata) — plural of firework
• Greenlandic: qummoroortaatit — plural of firework
• Gujarati: ફટાકડા (phaṭākḍā) — plural of firework
• Hebrew: זִיקּוּקֵי דִּי־נוּר — plural of firework
• Hungarian: tűzijáték — plural of firework
• Icelandic: flugeldar — plural of firework
• Indonesian: kembang api — plural of firework
• Irish: tinte ealaíne — plural of firework
• Italian: fuochi d'artificio — plural of firework
• Japanese: 花火 (hanabi) — plural of firework
• Korean: 불꽃놀이 (bulkkonnori) — plural of firework
• Lao: ຕະໄລ (ta lai) — plural of firework
• Latvian: uguņošana — plural of firework
• Lithuanian: fejerverkai — plural of firework
• Luxembourgish: Freedefeier — plural of firework
• Macedonian: огномет (ognomet) — plural of firework
• Malay: bunga api — plural of firework
• Maltese: logħob tan-nar — plural of firework
• Māori: pahū ahi — plural of firework
• Navajo: naaltsoos dildoní — plural of firework
• Navajo: naaltsoos dilchxoshí — plural of firework
• Norwegian Bokmål: fyrverkerier — plural of firework
• Polish: fajerwerki — plural of firework
• Polish: sztuczne ognie — plural of firework
• Portuguese: fogos de artifício — plural of firework
• Romanian: foc de artificii — plural of firework
• Romansh: fieu artifizial — plural of firework
• Russian: фейерве́рк (fejjervérk) — plural of firework
• Russian: фейерве́рки (fejjervérki) — plural of firework
• Northern Sami: dollaruson — plural of firework
• Serbo-Croatian: ватромет — plural of firework
• Serbo-Croatian: vatromet — plural of firework
• Slovak: ohňostroje — plural of firework
• Lower Sorbian: wognjoškrjakot — plural of firework
• Lower Sorbian: wognjostroj — plural of firework
• Upper Sorbian: wohnjostroj — plural of firework
• Spanish: fuegos artificiales — plural of firework
• Swedish: fyrverkerier — plural of firework
• Thai: ดอกไม้ไฟ (dɔ̀ɔk-máai-fai) — plural of firework
• Turkish: donanma fişekleri — plural of firework
• Vietnamese: pháo hoa — plural of firework
• Vietnamese: pháo bông — plural of firework
• Welsh: tân gwyllt — plural of firework
• Yiddish: פֿײַערווערק (fayerverk) — plural of firework
• Arabic: مُفَرْقِعَات (mufarqiʕāt) — event or display of fireworks
• Arabic: أَلْعَاب نَارِيَّة (ʔalʕāb nāriyya) — event or display of fireworks
• Arabic: طراطيع (ṭarāṭīʕ) — event or display of fireworks
• Armenian: հրավառություն (hravaṙutʻyun) — event or display of fireworks
• Armenian: սալյուտ (salyut) — event or display of fireworks
• Azerbaijani: atəşfəşanlıq — event or display of fireworks
• Basque: su artifizial — event or display of fireworks
• Belarusian: феерве́рк (fjejervjérk) — event or display of fireworks
• Belarusian: фаервэ́рк (fajervérk) — event or display of fireworks
• Bulgarian: фойерве́рк (fojervérk) — event or display of fireworks
• Chinese Mandarin: 煙火 /烟火 (yānhuǒ) — event or display of fireworks
• Czech: ohňostroj — event or display of fireworks
• Finnish: ilotulitus — event or display of fireworks
• French: feux d'artifice — event or display of fireworks
• German: Feuerwerk — event or display of fireworks
• Hungarian: tűzijáték — event or display of fireworks
• Irish: tine ealaíne — event or display of fireworks
• Italian: fuochi d'artificio — event or display of fireworks
• Japanese: 花火 (hanabi) — event or display of fireworks
• Korean: 불꽃놀이 (bulkkonnori) — event or display of fireworks
• Macedonian: огномет (ognomet) — event or display of fireworks
• Polish: sztuczne ognie — event or display of fireworks
• Portuguese: fogo de artifício — event or display of fireworks
• Russian: фейерве́рк (fejjervérk) — event or display of fireworks
• Serbo-Croatian: ватромет — event or display of fireworks
• Serbo-Croatian: vatromet — event or display of fireworks
• Slovak: ohňostroj — event or display of fireworks
• Slovene: ognjemet — event or display of fireworks
• Spanish: fuegos artificiales — event or display of fireworks
• Thai: ดอกไม้เพลิง (dɔ̀ɔk-máai-pləəng) — event or display of fireworks
• Thai: ดอกไม้ไฟ (dɔ̀ɔk-máai-fai) — event or display of fireworks
• Turkish: havai fişek gösterisi — event or display of fireworks
• Ukrainian: феєрве́рк (fejervérk) — event or display of fireworks
• Vietnamese: pháo hoa — event or display of fireworks
• Vietnamese: pháo bông — event or display of fireworks