El Fuego — Fire

El Fuego — Fire
 

General

[table=sortable]
{||}Spanish | English
{|}fuego | fire
{|}ascuas | embers
{|}rescoldos | charred remains
{|}rescoldos | charred ruins
{|}pirómano | arsonist
{|}bomberos | fire fighters
{|}mangueras | hoses
{|}traje de bombero | firefighter suit
{|}traje de bombero | firefighter gear
{|}llamas | flames
{|}llamaradas | sudden blazes
{|}fuego intencionado | a fire set intentionally
{|}cortafuego | firebreak
{|}un infierno | a blazing inferno
{|}sentido del viento | wind direction
{|}sentido del viento | direction of the wind
{|}contratiraje | back draft
{|}hospital con una unidad para pacientes que hayan sufrido quemaduras | hospital with a burn unit
{|}pyromaniac | pirómano
{|}forest fire | incencio forestal
{|}chispa | spark
{|}pavesas | burning smut
{|}carbonizar | to burn to the ground
{|}carbonizar | to reduce to ashes
{|}calcinar | to burn
{|}calcinar | to scorch
{|}extintor | fire extinguisher
{|}camión de bomberos | fireengine
{|}fuego arrasador | wildfire
{|}incendiario | incindiary
{|}quemadura de primer grado | first degree burn
{|}el fuego tiene dos frentes | the fire has two fronts
{|}el fuego lo arrasó todo | the fire destroyed everything
{|}el fuego fue iniciado | the fire was started
{|}será declarada zona catastrófica | it will be declared a disaster zone
{|}murieron calcinados | they were burned to death
{|}murieron calcinados | they were charred to death
{|}en caso de fuego | in case of fire
{|}arder | to be on fire
{|}quemar | to burn
{|}prender fuego a | to set fire to
{|}apagar un fuego | to extinguish a fire
{|}apagar un fuego | to put out a fire
{|}reavivar el fuego | to reawaken of a dormant fire
{|}reavivar el fuego | to revive a fire
{|}reavivar el fuego | to rekindle a fire
{|}reavivar el fuego | to reignite a fire
{|}reavivar el fuego | to restart a fire
{|}controlar un fuego | to bring a fire under control
{|}avivar un fuego | to fan the flames
{|}incendiar | to light on fire
{|}incendiar | to set on fire
{|}encender un fuego | to start a fire
{|}avivar un fuego | to fan the flames
{|}cerillo  | match
{|}cerilla  | match
{|}fósforo  | match
{|}mechero  | lighter
{|}encendedor  | lighter
{|}incendio  | fire
[/table]

El fuego lo arrasó todo - the fire destroyed everything

Arder - to be on fire
Quemar - to burn

se dice cerilla

mechero = lighter

¿A qué te refieres? :thinking:

Cerilla (la)/Cerillo (el) = match

Me refiero a que se dice cerilla, y no cerillo. Bueno al menos en España.

De hecho, se dice "cerillo". :D

...y por cierto, "lighter" es "encendedor", no "mechero". ;)

I've always heard "cerilla" instead of "cerillo. So, I've made a search about it and it said that "cerillo" is used in México and in And. (I haven't been able to find that abbreviation in the RAE, I guess it means Andalucía, but I never heard "cerillo" in Andalucía :confused: ).

Both "mechero" and "encendedor" appear in the RAE. In Spain we use more the word mechero than encendedor. Both of them are correct :)

@Irma: Ambas palabras se usan en México y no estoy segura de en qué otros lugares... pero el "se dice así y no asá" lo puse sólo por incordiar un poco. ;)
Evidentemente, para todos nosotros, "lo correcto" es lo que nosotros hablamos. :D

No sé , no había oído cerillo jamás de los jamases, pero llevas razón Angelica, A veces pensamos que lo correcto es lo que nosotros decimos y estamos equivocados.

¿Andes (es decir, países andinos)?

@pjt: no, it's not Andes... "Andalucía" is the right meaning for "And." in RAE's website... but it wouldn't be strange that they attribute some words and meanings to countries or regions and the last ones to know are the people who actually live there. ;)

Funny..........

I've heard the word cerilla to describe ear wax!
Cerillo for match.

:thinking::thinking:

I'm sorry but is fosforo.

I wait your commentaries.

También, sí.

@Elaina: it's true that "cerilla" is a common word for "cerumen" around here, but I think anyone would understand pretty well Hans Christian Andersen's "La Vendedora de Cerillas". :)

Hi, taking a look to this thread I saw the entry "hospital with a burnt unit". At least in Spain, the way we say it is "Hospital con unidad de quemados", something a bit more economical than the version above :)

Self correction above :D

Hi, Bolboreta - Actually, it's "hospital with a burn unit". Burnt (patients) = quemados, seguro.

I thought it was a "Burns unit" but maybe both. :thinking:

Edit: this remnds me of a joke, probably only appreciated by those in Scotland:

Prince Charles is visiting an Edinburgh hospital. He enters a ward full of patients with no obvious sign of injury or illness and says hello to the chap in bed no. 1. The patient replies..
"Fair fa your honest sonsie face,
Great chieftain o' the puddin' race,
Aboon them a ye take yer place,
Painch, tripe or thairm,
As langs my airm,"


Charles is confused, so he just grins and moves on to bed no. 2 and greets the patient, who responds.....
"Some hae meat an canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it.
But we hae meat an we can eat,
So let the Lord be thankit."


Even more confused and his grin now rictus-like, the Prince moves on to the next patient, who immediately begins to chant.....
"Wee sleekit, cowerin, timrous beasty,
O the panic in thy breasty,
Thou needna start awa sae hastie,
Wi bickering brattle."


Now seriously alarmed, Charles turns to the accompanying doctor and asks....
"Is this a psychiatric ward?"


"No" replies the doctor, "This is the serious Burns unit!"