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Definition: Flame |
FlameNoun1. The process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke; "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries". Verb1. Shine with a sudden light; "The night sky flared with the massive bombardment.". 2. Be in flames or aflame; "The sky seemed to flame in the Hawaiian sunset.". 3. Criticize harshly, on the e-mail. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flame" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Flame [at MIT, orig. from the phrase `flaming asshole'] 1. vi. To post an email message intended to insult and provoke. 2. vi. To speak incessantly and/or rabidly on some relatively uninteresting subject or with a patently ridiculous attitude. 3. vt. Either of senses 1 or 2, directed with hostility at a particular person or people. 4. n. An instance of flaming. When a discussion degenerates into useless controversy, one might tell the participants "Now you're just flaming" or "Stop all that flamage!" to try to get them to cool down (so to speak). The term may have been independently invented at several different places. It has been reported from MIT, Carleton College and RPI (among many other places) from as far back as 1969, and from the University of Virginia in the early 1960s. It is possible that the hackish sense of `flame' is much older than that. The poet Chaucer was also what passed for a wizard hacker in his time; he wrote a treatise on the astrolabe, the most advanced computing device of the day. In Chaucer's "Troilus and Cressida", Cressida laments her inability to grasp the proof of a particular mathematical theorem; her uncle Pandarus then observes that it's called "the fleminge of wrecches." This phrase seems to have been intended in context as "that which puts the wretches to flight" but was probably just as ambiguous in Middle English as "the flaming of wretches" would be today. One suspects that Chaucer would feel right at home on Usenet. Source: Jargon File. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of fighting flames, foretells that you will have to put forth your best efforts and energy if you are successful in amassing wealth. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Flame A sweetheart. "An old flame," a quondam sweetheart. In Latin, flamma is used for love, and so is feu in French. Ardeo, to burn like fire, is also applied to the passion of love; hence, Virgil (Ecl. ii. 4). "Corydon ardebat Alexin; " and Horace (Epoch xiii. 9), "Arsit Anacreon Bathyllo. " Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A burning mixture of a combustible gas (or vapor) and air. Solid fuels burn with a glow, but with little flame. Flames are normally hot, but under some conditions are relatively cool. Principal types of flame are luminous, nonluminous, long (lazy) flames, and short flames. (references) |
Public Administration | Ignited gas; A quantity of gas in visible combustion with production of heat; Verb to flame = to blaze, emit flames. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A fire is a rapid oxidation process of combustible gases ejected from a fuel. It starts by subjecting the fuel to heat or another energy source, e.g. a match or lighter, and is sustained by the further release of heat energy. Controlling fire was one of humankind's first great achievements and made possible migration to colder climes which otherwise would have remained out of reach for colonization.
larger versionFires and burning have often been used in religious sacrifices, as the smoke of the fire disperses into the heavens. Fire is one of the four classical elements, as well as one of the five Chinese elements.
The burning of wood is often the first association to the word fire, and trees have since ancient times supplied much of the energy needed by humans. In the past, metal smelting and charcoal production consumed large quantities of wood for their production. Nowadays, large scale energy is usually not produced by fires of burning wood, but has been replaced by hydrocarbon oil and coal, and in some cases nuclear energy or renewable energy sources. Wood burning remains a heat source in third world countries and where other sources of energy are unavailable.
There are four elements that maintain the combustion process, and the absence of any one of them will prevent a fire. The removal of these elements is the job of firefighters.
See also: campfire, List of historic fires, fire hydrant, smoking
- Fuel may be removed from the site of a fire to curb its spread. In forestry, controlled burns are used to keep the available fuel supply low, so that intense fires do not occur. Gases that do not support combustion, such as nitrogen and carbon dioxide may be used to deprive an existing fire of its fuel.
- An oxidizer (usually oxygen) is needed to react with the fuel. Sand and foam may be used to stop the flow of oxygen to a fire. In particularly violent fires, such as those of the Kuwaiti oil wells during the Gulf War, explosions may be used instead.
- Heat is what allows fuels to be vaporized, which allows them to burn. Removal of enough heat prevents fuels from burning. Water is uniquely effective at removing heat; due to its high heat of vaporization, it removes a large amount of energy by simply boiling away.
- The chemical chain reaction is what perpetuates combustion; compounds such as halon extinguishing agents cause the chain reaction to be broken. The precise mechanism is not known, but it is thought that the halogen radicals end the reactions that support combustion.
- Some materials are naturally fire-resistant. Either they are simply incapable of being oxidized , or they do not release enough energy in the process to sustain the fire.
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Fire can also refer to a Instant messaging client for Mac OS X. See Fire (software).
FIRE can also refer to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education a civil liberties organization.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fire."
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This article is about the internet term, not about people who are conspicuously gay
Flaming is the practice of posting messages that are deliberately hostile and insulting to a discussion board (usually on the Internet). Such messages are called flames, and are often posted in response to flame bait.
A flame may have elements of a normal message, but is distinguished by its intent. A flame is never intended to be constructive, to further clarify a discussion, or to persuade other people. The motive for flaming is never dialectic, but rather social or psychological. Flamers are attempting to assert their authority, or establish a position of superiority. Occasionally, flamers merely wish to upset and offend other members of the forum, in which case they are trollss.
Similary, a normal, non-flame message may have elements of a flame - it may be hostile, for example - but it is not a flame if it is seriously intended to advance the discussion.
Flame wars
A flame war is a series of flaming messages in an electronic discussion group or message board system such as usenet, mailing lists or forums. There are a number of characteristics of electronic communication which have been cited as being conducive to flame wars. Electronic communications do not easily transmit facial expressions or voice intonations which may serve to moderate the tone of a message. Also, there is typically a lag time between the time a message is transmitted and the time a reply is read. These two characteristics can cause a "positive feedback loop" in which the emotional intensity of an electronic exchange increases to extremely high levels.
Alternatively, flame wars may be instigated deliberately by Internet trolls. Not all trolls are successful, though.
Some flame wars have entered into internet folklore, such as the Meow Wars between Harvard students and the "Meowers".
External Links
- The Ultimate Flame: http://www.ultimateflame.com
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Flaming."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
FLAME | English | Fire Aerosol Monitoring Experiments | Nuclear Energy & Physics |
| fl.pr. | English | Flame proof | Mining, Engineering & Technology |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: FlameSynonyms: fire (n), flaming (n), flare (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excitability | Passion, excitement, flush, heat; fever, heat; fire, flame, fume, blood boiling; tumult; effervescence, ebullition; boiling over; whiff, gust, story, tempest; scene, breaking out, burst, fit, paroxysm, explosion; outbreak, outburst; agony. |
Excitation | Be excited; Adjective: flush up, flare up; catch the infection; thrill; (feel); mantle; work oneself up; seethe, boil, simmer, foam, fume, flame, rage, rave; run mad; (passion). |
Heat | Verb: be hot. Adjective: glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek, stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, blister, broil, blaze, flame; smolder; parch, fume, pant. |
Phlogiston; fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze; bonfire; firework, pyrotechnics, pyrotechny; wildfire; sheet of fire, lambent flame; devouring element; adiathermancy; recalescence. | |
Love | Yearning, gr/eros/gr, tender passion, amour; gyneolatry; gallantry, passion, flame, devotion, fervor, enthusiasm, transport of love, rapture, enchantment, infatuation, adoration, idolatry. |
Lover, suitor, follower, admirer, adorer, wooer, amoret, beau, sweetheart, inamorato, swain, young man, flame, love, truelove; leman, Lothario, gallant, paramour, amoroso, cavaliere servente, captive, cicisbeo; caro sposo. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Flame |
| English words defined with "flame": Flame reaction ♦ Sensitive flame, Singing flame. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "flame": aerated flame, approved permissible flame safety lamp ♦ blue flame, butane flame methanometer ♦ carburizing flame ♦ dictionary flame, diffuse flame ♦ flame bait, flame bucket, flame cultivation, flame deflector, flame gouger, Flame Ionization, flame off, flame on, flame photometry, flame spectrum, flame spread index, Flame Spread Rating, flame war, flame weeding ♦ non-aerated flame ♦ oxidizing flame ♦ pilot flame ♦ SMOKE AND FLAME SPECIALIST, spelling flame, SUPERVISOR, FLAME CUTTING ♦ testing flame, to flame ♦ Vital Spark of Heavenly Flame. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "flame": Phlox. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Flame" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (Fleming), Portuguese (fleam). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Nuke it, flame it, destroy it -- it hurts me to know it's out there (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.) You cannot pass I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the Flame of Anor (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh) No, no. We have already succeeded! I mean, what are the three terrors of the Fire Swamp? One, the flame spurt -- no problem (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman) Eat flame, Bozo (Girls Just Want to Have Fun; writing credit: Amy Spies) Flame on (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) | |
Lyrics | I will be the flame. (The Flame; performing artist: Cheap Trick; writing credit: Bob Mitchell and Nick Graham) Is this burning an eternal flame (Eternal Flame; performing artist: The Bangles) Burning like a silver flame (Venus; performing artist: Bananarama) A chance to find the phoenix for the flame, (A View to a Kill; performing artist: Duran Duran) Like a moth to a flame (That's The Way Love Goes; performing artist: Janet Jackson) | |
Clever | To collect fumes of sulfur, hold a deacon over a flame in a test tube. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Big Flame (1969) Flame of Feelings (1967) A Flame in the Wind (1964) Naked Flame (1964) Flame in the Streets (1961) | |
Song Titles | Eternal Flame (performing artist: The Bangles) | |
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 | Flame tree and cows, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico. Credit: CDC. |  | Retired Master Sgt. Disk Fiske, a Pearl Harbor survivor, reads a memorial plaque engraved on the eternal flame in the Headquarters Pacific Air Forces "Courtyard of Heroes" 59 years after the attack. Fiske was a bugler assigned to a marine detach. |
 | Flame Seedless grapes. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Patrick Tregenza.. |  | Sinking at Ulithi, 20 November 1944. The capsized ship's bottom can be seen at the base of the flames, with bow or stern toward the left. NOTE: Identification provided above is provisional. The original caption reads: " Casualty at Iwo Jima -- While the battle raged ashore, a U.S. Tanker goes up in flame and smoke as the result of enemy action." The identity of this ship, if lost at Iwo Jima, is unknown. However, the circumstances seen in the photo appear to be correct for the loss of USS Mississinewa. The presence of many anchored cargo ships and oilers, plus the several fleet tugs and salvage ships, looks more like Ulithi than Iwo Jima. Credit: NAVY. |
 | A Japanese "Zeke" airplane dives toward USS Vincennes (CL-64), during an attack on Task Group 58.1 off Okinawa on 6 April 1945. Note anti-aircraft gun smoke and flame trailing aft of the cruiser. Photographed from USS Miami (CL-89). Tracer shells from Miami and from the destroyer in the center are also visible. This plane crashed into the sea astern of Vincennes. Credit: NAVY. |  | Various memorial structures, including monumental Doric column with tripod and flame and temple-form domed circular structure with tripod and flame. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A shape moved suddenly past me into the flame. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Army flame throwers melt city snow. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Hugh oil gusher at Mooringsport, La. A monstrous column of roaring flame, Star Oil Co. Loucke no. 3, on fire since Aug. 7, 1913 ... Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pearl Harbor bombing. USS West Virginia a flame. Disregarding the dangerous possibilities of explosions, U.S. sailors man their boats at the side of the burning battleship, USS West Virginia, to better fight the flames started by Japanese torpedoes and bo. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "A standard flame" by Matt 'Fox' Laskowski Commentary: "The title says it all." | "Silky Flame 2" by Eoghan Mcnally Commentary: "Could be good as a texture (??)." |
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 | Match igniting into flame. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Disraeli | You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. |
Bhagavad Gita | When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place. |
Charles Dickens | Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. |
Dante Alighieri | A great flame follows a little spark. |
| Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly. | |
Henry David Thoreau | Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. |
Jalal-Uddin Rumi | Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness. |
Virgil | I feel again a spark of that ancient flame. |
Walter Savage Landor | The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Thus, a blazing spear, a sword of flame, a bow, or a sheaf of arrows, seen in the midnight sky, prefigured Indian warfare |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He examined the flame of the candle with a stupid air, and took some of the melted wax from around the wick and rolled it in his fingers |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The parlour fire would not draw that evening and Mr Dedalus rested the poker against the bars of the grate to attract the flame. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Casy sat on the ground beside the fire, feeding it broken pieces of board, pushing the long boards in as the flame ate off their ends |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Among all plastic auxiliaries, plasticizer was consumed the most and flame retardant was ranked second. (references) | |
Economic History | Japan | There are no significant regulatory barriers that hamper U.S. exports to Japan except for flame retardancy regulations. (references) |
Mali | The peace agreement was celebrated in 1996 in Timbuktu during an official and highly publicized ceremony called Flamme de la Paix--peace flame. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey. A king there was who lost an eye In some excess of passion; And straight his courtiers all did try To follow the new fashion. Each dropped one eyelid when before The throne he ventured, thinking 'Twould please the king. That monarch swore He'd slay them all for winking. What should they do? They were not hot To hazard such disaster; They dared not close an eye -- dared not See better than their master. Seeing them lacrymose and glum, A leech consoled the weepers: He spread small rags with liquid gum And covered half their peepers. The court all wore the stuff, the flame Of royal anger dying. That's how court-plaster got its name Unless I'm greatly lying. Naramy Oof |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | I think there is something wrong when you hear a cell phone ring in public and thirty people start patting themselves down like they've just burst into flame. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Should the flame light up in any quarter, how far it may extend it is impossible to foresee. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Flame" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.91% of the time. "Flame" is used about 928 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.91% | 890 | 8,005 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.61% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.51% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.86% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (common) | 0.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 928 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "flame". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Baara | N/A | Biblical | A flame |
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Expressions using "flame": add fuel to the flame ♦ aerated flame ♦ an old flame of mine ♦ blue flame ♦ burn to the ground flame ♦ burst into flame ♦ burst of flame ♦ candle flame ♦ dictionary flame ♦ diffuse flame ♦ eternal flame ♦ fan the flame ♦ feed the flame ♦ flame bait ♦ Flame bridge ♦ flame bush ♦ flame cell ♦ flame coal ♦ Flame color ♦ flame cultivation ♦ flame durrajong ♦ Flame engine ♦ flame float ♦ flame flower ♦ flame gun ♦ flame ignition ♦ Flame Ionization ♦ flame launcher ♦ flame length ♦ Flame manometer ♦ flame nettle ♦ flame of fire ♦ flame of love ♦ flame off ♦ flame on ♦ flame out ♦ flame pea ♦ Flame reaction ♦ flame resistance ♦ flame retardant ♦ Flame Retardants ♦ flame thrower ♦ flame throwing tank ♦ flame tokay ♦ flame tree ♦ flame up ♦ flame war ♦ flame weeding ♦ horseshoe flame furnace ♦ lambent flame ♦ low flame ♦ old flame ♦ olympic flame ♦ optional flame test ♦ pilot flame ♦ portable flame thrower ♦ pour oil on the flame ♦ puff of flame and smoke ♦ sensitive flame ♦ singing flame ♦ spelling flame ♦ to flame ♦ Violet Flame Initiation ♦ vital flame. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "flame": flame-belching, flame-breasted, flame-burst, Flame-colored, flame-coloured, flame-effect, flame-establishing, flame-eyed, flame-grilled, flame-haired, flame-kindled, flame-like, flame-of-the-forest, flame-orange, flame-patterned, flame-polished, flame-proof, flame-proofed, flame-pulled, flame-pulling, flame-red, flame-resistant, flame-retardant, flame-thrower, flame-throwers, flame-throwing, flame-tipped, flame-top, flame-topped, flame-tree, flame-tufts, flame-weeders. | |
Ending with "flame": candle-flame. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
flame | 2,298 | exhaust flame thrower | 106 |
in flame | 568 | flame and fire | 96 |
flame tattoo | 416 | twin flame | 95 |
penny flame | 399 | background flame | 90 |
flame picture | 320 | clipart flame | 90 |
flame decals | 262 | drawing flame | 90 |
flame graphic | 247 | flame retardant | 88 |
calgary flame | 218 | flame pic | 87 |
flame of recca | 214 | flame hot rod | 85 |
flame green harry potter torch | 203 | flame job paint | 84 |
tribal flame | 196 | art clip flame | 80 |
blue flame | 148 | flame violet | 79 |
flame ghost | 148 | flame in tab | 79 |
car flame | 138 | flame shirt | 75 |
paint flame | 135 | flame art | 73 |
design flame | 135 | flame stencil | 70 |
flame painting | 125 | draw flame | 68 |
exhaust flame | 124 | flame kit thrower | 67 |
eternal flame | 114 | flame wallpaper | 62 |
flame in lyrics | 108 | eternal flame lyrics | 62 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "flame"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | vlam. (various references) | |
Albanian | flakë (blaze, blazing, burst, shining). (various references) | |
Arabic | متوهج (aglow, ardent, blazing, fervent, flamboyant, flash, garish, glowing, incandescent, live, lurid, radiant), نار (fire, flare, heat, light), لهب (blaze, inflame, inspire, reanimate, thrill), لظي, وهج (blaze, glare, glow, heat), تلظى, إضطرام, إشتعل (burn, catch fire, flame up, ignite, sparkle, strike), شعلة (blaze, fire, torch), شعور ملتهب, بريق (blaze, brightness, burnish, glance, gleam, glimmering, glitter, gloss, loudness, luster, opalescence, refulgence, sheen, shine, spark, twinkle). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | любов (amour, crush, fancy, heart, love, love affair, partiality), изгора, изчервявам се силно (turn scarlet), пламвам (burn up, catch fire, fire, flame up, flare, flare up, flush, kindle, take, turn scarlet), пламтя (blaze, burn, glow), пламък (blaze, flare, spirit), избухвам в гняв (blow off steam, flame up), лумвам (flame up, flare, flare up, kindle), ярка светлина (dazzle), жар (ardour, embers, fervency, fervor, fervour, fire, ginger, glow, gusto, heat, incandescence, mustard, vehemence, violence, warmth, zest), обгарям (bake, cauterize, scorch, sear), огън (blaze, fire, flush, flushing, ingle, light), горя (burn, glow), сигнализирам чрез огън, увлечение (abandon, abandonment, fire, gusto, mustard, penchant, relish, transport, vehemence, zeal, zest), либе. (various references) | |
Catalan | flama. (various references) | |
Chinese | 火焰 (blaze). (various references) | |
Czech | plamen (blaze, ingle), plápolat (flare, flicker, quiver), oheò (blaze, fire). (various references) | |
Danish | flamme (to flame). (various references) | |
Dutch | vlammen, vlam (vein), laaien. (various references) | |
Esperanto | flamo, flami. (various references) | |
Faeroese | logi. (various references) | |
Farsi | مشتعل شدن (Burn, Ignite, Light, Low), تابش (Brilliance, Glint, Glitter, Glow, Sheen, Shine), تب وتاب (Ardor), زبانه کشیدن (Lick, Low), زبانه اتش , الو, شورعشق , شعله زدن , شعله . (various references) | |
Finnish | liekki. (various references) | |
French | flamme (flare), flamber (to flame). (various references) | |
Frisian | flam, lôge. (various references) | |
German | flamme (blaze, burner), flammen (be alight, be on, be on fire, blaze, flames). (various references) | |
Greek | φλόγα (blaze, straight flush). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | flakë. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מדורה (bonfire, fire, hearth, smudge), ללהוט (blaze, fervor, glow, kindle), לפיד (torch), להתלקח (be inflamed, blaze up, catch fire, fire, fire up, flare up, ignite), להתלהט (be hot, flare), להבה (blaze, flare), להט (ardour, blaze, fervency, fervor, glow, heat, incandescence, verve, zeal), שלהבת (blaze), פלד (steel), אש (conflagration, fire, glitter, heat, wrath), רשף (flash, spark). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ragyogás (blaze, brilliance, brilliancy, effulgence, glamor, glamour, glare, glitter, glossiness, glowing, irradiation, lucency, luster, lustre, Lustrum, magnificence, radiance, radiancy, sheen, shine, splendor, splendour), láng (blaze, light). (various references) | |
Icelandic | logi. (various references) | |
Indonesian | nyala api (blaze), api (blaze, fire, spirit). (various references) | |
Italian | fiamma (blaze, flambe, heat, streamer), vampa (blaze, blush, flush). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 火焔 (blaze), 火炎 (blaze), 火炎 (blaze), 火 (blaze, fire), 焔 , 炎光 , 炎 (blaze), 光炎 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひ (blaze, consort, cost, day, expense, faulty-, fire, hail, ice, light, negation, no, non-, princess, proportion, ratio, rook, spoon, sun, sunlight, sunshine, the noes, wicked person), ほのお (blaze), ほむら, かえん (blaze, congratulatory banquet, flower garden), こうえん (address, backing, good performance, incense smoke, lecture, light and flame, lofty, mouth ulcer, noble, oral presentation, park, prominence, public performance, red flame, stomatitis, support, vast and far-reaching), えんこう (a lead mine, dating with compensation, halo, lead deposits). (various references) | |
Korean | 화염. (various references) | |
Manx | lossey (ablaze, afire, aflame, blaze, blush, burning, flame up, flare, flush, flush in fever, ignition, light), lossan (aurora, blaze, light, phosphorescence). (various references) | |
Papiamen | vlam. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ameflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | chama (blaze, dap, fire, hack, low), paixão (addiction, ardor, ardour, fire, glow, love, love-sickness, lust, mania, passion, rabidity, vehemence, zeal), flama, arder (burn, deflagrate, fire, flush, glisten, glitter, glow, glow with heat, inflame, kindle, sting, tingle). (various references) | |
Romanian | flacãrã (blaze, torch), vãpaie (fire, glow), strãlucire (bravery, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, coruscation, eclat, effulgence, fineness, fire, flash, flashing, flush, gaiety, glitter, gloss, glow, gorgeousness, grandeur, irradiance, irradiation, lucency, luminosity, luster, lustre, panoply, pomp, radiance, radiancy, radiation, refulgence, resplendence, richness, scintillation, sheen, shine, sparkle, splendor, splendour), strãluci (beam, blaze, coruscate, dazzle, flare, flash, glance, glare, gleam, glisten, glitter, glow, irradiate, light, radiate, scintillate, shine, sparkle, star), semnaliza cu ajutorul focului, se învãpãia, se înroşi (flush, redden, turn red), se înflãcãra (flush), pasiune (Ardor, ardour, avidity, avocation, fervour, fire, glow, hobby, interest, itch, love, passion, pathos), limbã de foc, izbucni în flãcãri (blaze up, burst into a blaze, burst into flames), iubitã (girl, lady, lady love, lass, mistress, paramour, sweetheart), dragoste (affection, attachment, charity, dearness, endearment, fondness, intrigue, love, love affair, love making, sport), arde cu flacãrã, arde în flãcãri. (various references) | |
Russian | пламя (blaze, fire). (various references) | |
Scottish | lasair (flash of fire). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | flambirati, plamteti (blaze, glow), plamen (blaze), oganj (fire, ingle), goreti (burn). (various references) | |
Shona | kajongwe (flame lily). (various references) | |
Spanish | llama (call, firepan, llama). (various references) | |
Sranan | fayatongo. (various references) | |
Swedish | låga (blaze, burner, fire, jet), flamma (baby, blaze, flare, flash). (various references) | |
Tagalog | níngas, apóy (fire). (various references) | |
Thai | เปลวไฟ, สีแดงจ้า, ลุกไหม้ (enkindle), ความรู้สึกที่รุนแรง. (various references) | |
Turkish | alev (blaze, fire, pennant, spunk). (various references) | |
Turkmen | яalyn, lowurdy (lustre, shine). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сяяти (beam, blaze, burn, coruscate, glitter, radiate, shine), сяйво (aureola, aureole, nimbus, refulgence, sheen), спалахувати (flash, lighten, overflush, spark), пристрасть (appetence, appetite, ardency, ardour, bias, care, desire, fondness, leaning, lust, partiality, passion, predilection, propensity, rage, weakness, yen), полум'я (blaze, fire), палати. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người tình đốt cháy đổ dầu vào lửa, ngọn lửa ánh hồng cơn. (various references) | |
Welsh | fflamio (blaze), fflam (blaze), ffaglu (blaze), ffagl (blaze, torch). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | flamma. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | lig. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 7, Verse 30 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai plhrwqentwn etwn tessarakonta wfqh autw en th erhmw tou orouV sina aggeloV kuriou en flogi puroV batou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et expletis annis quadraginta apparuit illi in deserto montis Sina angelus in igne flammae rubi |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whanne he hadde fillid fourti yeer, an aungel apperide to hym in fier of flawme of a buysch, in desert of the mount of Syna. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And when .xl. yeares were expired ther appered to him in the wyldernes of mounte Syna an angell of the Lorde in a flamme of fyre in a busshe. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And when forty years had expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina, an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | At the end of forty years, an angel came to him in the waste land of Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn-tree. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Acts Chapter 7, Verse 30 |
| Albanian | Si kaluan dyzet vjet, engjëlli i Zotit iu shfaq në shkretëtirën e malit Sinai, në flakën e zjarrit të një ferrishteje. |
| Cebuano | ¶ "Ug unya tapus sa kap-atan ka tuig, mitungha kniya ang usa ka manolunda didto sa kamingawan sa Bukid sa Sinai, diha sa nagsilaob nga kahoyng talungon. |
| Croatian | "Nakon èetrdeset godina ukaza mu se Anðeo u pustinji brda Sinaja u rasplamtjeloj vatri jednoga grma. |
| Danish | Og efter fyrretyve Års Forløb viste en Engel sig for ham i Sinai Bjergs Ørken i en Tornebusk, der stod i lys Lue. |
| Dutch | En als veertig jaren vervuld waren, verscheen hem de Engel des Heeren, in de woestijn van den berg Sinai, in een vlammig vuur van het doornenbos. |
| Finnish | Ja kun neljäkymmentä vuotta oli kulunut, ilmestyi hänelle Siinain vuoren erämaassa enkeli palavan orjantappurapensaan liekissä. |
| French | Quarante ans plus tard, un ange lui apparut, au désert de la montagne de Sinaï, dans la flamme d`un buisson en feu. |
| German | Und über vierzig Jahre erschien ihm in der Wüste an dem Berge Sinai der Engel des HERRN in einer Feuerflamme im Busch. |
| Hungarian | És negyven esztendõ elteltével megjelenék néki a Sínai hegy pusztájában az Úrnak angyala csipkebokornak tüzes lángjában. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Empat puluh tahun kemudian seorang malaikat datang kepada Musa di padang gurun dekat Gunung Sinai. Malaikat itu datang di dalam api pada belukar yang sedang menyala. |
