frostbite

English

Hands afflicted with frostbite.

Etymology

From frost +‎ bite.

Pronunciation

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Noun

frostbite (countable and uncountable, plural frostbites)

1. An injury suffered as a result of freezing of some part of the body, typically fingers, toes or the nose.

Coordinate terms

• chilblain
• frostnip

Translations

the freezing of some part of the body

• Albanian: ngrirje (sq) f
• Arabic: تَثْلِيج m (taṯlīj), قَضْمَة صَقِيع (qaḍma(t) ṣaqīʕ)
• Armenian: ցրտահարություն (hy) (cʻrtaharutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: измръзване n (izmrăzvane), измръзнало място n (izmrăznalo mjasto)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 凍瘡 / 冻疮 (zh) (dòngchuāng), 凍傷 / 冻伤 (zh) (dòngshāng), 瘃 (zh) (zhú)

• Czech: omrzlina f
• Dutch: bevriezing (nl) f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: külmakahjustus
• Faroese: frost n, frostsár n
• Finnish: paleltuminen (fi), paleltuma (fi), pakkasenpurema
• French: gelure (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Erfrierung (de) f
• Greek: κρυοπάγημα (el) n (kryopágima)
• Hungarian: fagykár (hu)
• Irish: dó seaca m
• Italian: congelamento (it) m
• Japanese: 霜焼け (ja) (しもやけ, shimoyake), 霜焼 (しもやけ, shimoyake), 凍瘡 (ja) (とうそう, tōsō), 凍傷 (ja) (とうしょう, tōshō)
• Kashmiri: شُہہ (śuhh)
• Kazakh: үсу (üsüw)
• Korean: 동상(凍傷) (ko) (dongsang)
• Latin: congelātiō f
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: подноктица f (podnoktica)
• Malay: luka beku
• Māori: mate hukapuri
• Mongolian: хөлдөөх (xöldööx)
• Nepali: अररो (araro)
• Persian: شجام (fa) (šajâm)
• Polish: odmrożenie n
• Portuguese: congelamento (pt) m, geladura f, úlcera de frio f
• Romanian: degerare (ro) f
• Russian: обмороже́ние (ru) n (obmorožénije)
• Sherpa: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: congelamiento (es) m, congelación (es) f
• Swedish: köldskada (sv) c, förfrysning (sv) c
• Tajik: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: གངས་ཕྱིད (gangs phyid)
• Turkish: soğuk ısırması (tr)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
• Uzbek: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: cước (vi)
• Welsh: ewinrhew m
• Zazaki: bılıkê cemedi

Verb

frostbite (third-person singular simple present frostbites, present participle frostbiting, simple past frostbit, past participle frostbitten)

1. (transitive) To expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. (intransitive) To engage in winter sailboating.

Derived terms

• frostbitten

Translations

to expose to the effect of frost

• Armenian: ցրտահարել (hy) (cʻrtaharel)
• Dutch: bevriezen (nl)
• Finnish: palelluttaa (fi)
• Hindi: शीतदंश m (śītdañś)
• Indonesian: radang dingin
• Māori: mate hukapuri
• Nepali: काठिनु (kāṭhinu), कठ्याङ्ग्रिनु (kaṭhyāṅgrinu), काठ्ठिनु (kāṭhṭhinu), गँगरिनु (gãgarinu)
• Persian: شجیدن (šajidan)
• Polish: odmrażać impf, odmrozić pf
• Russian: отморо́зить (ru) pf (otmorózitʹ)
• Spanish: congelar (es)

Further reading

• frostbite on Wikipedia.Wikipedia