cease-fire

English

Alternative forms

• ceasefire, cease fire

Etymology

cease +‎ fire

Noun

cease-fire (plural cease-fires)

1. In warfare, an agreed end to hostilities for a specific purpose. (Typically only temporary).

   The rebels agreed to a ceasefire while the peace talks were underway.

Translations

in warfare, an agreed end to hostilities for a specific purpose

• Afrikaans: vuurstaking
• Albanian: armëpushim (sq) m, pushim zjarri m
• Arabic: هُدْنَة f (hudna), وَقْف نَار m (waqf nār), وَقْف إِطْلَاق نَار m (waqf ʔiṭlāq nār)
• Armenian: հրադադար (hy) (hradadar)
• Azerbaijani: atəşkəs
• Basque: su-eten
• Bavarian: Woffnstuistand m
• Belarusian: спыне́нне агню́ n (spynjénnje ahnjú), замiрэ́нне n (zamirénnje), перамі́р'е n (pjeramírʺje)
• Bulgarian: прими́рие (bg) n (primírie), прекратя́ване на о́гъня n (prekratjávane na ógǎnja)
• Catalan: alto el foc m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 停火 (zh) (tínghuǒ), 休戰／休战 (zh) (xiūzhàn), 停戰／停战 (zh) (tíngzhàn)

• Corsican: cessate u focu m
• Czech: příměří (cs) n
• Danish: våbenhvile (da) c
• Dutch: staakt-het-vuren (nl) n, wapenstilstand (nl), vuurstaking f
• Esperanto: militpaŭzo
• Estonian: relvarahu
• Faroese: vápnahvíld f
• Finnish: tulitauko (fi)
• French: cessez-le-feu (fr) m, trêve (fr) f
• Galician: alto o fogo m
• Georgian: ცეცხლის შეწყვეტა (cecxlis šec̣q̇veṭa), საომარი მოქმედების შეწყვეტა (saomari mokmedebis šec̣q̇veṭa)
• German: Waffenstillstand (de) m, Feuerpause (de) f
• Greek: εκεχειρία (el) f (ekecheiría), ανακωχή (el) f (anakochí)

  Ancient: ἀνακωχή f (anakōkhḗ)

• Greenlandic: akiuukkunnaarallarneq
• Hebrew: הַפְסָקַת־אֵשׁ (he) f (hafsakát-ésh)
• Hindi: युद्धविराम m (yuddhavirām)
• Hungarian: tűzszünet (hu), fegyverszünet (hu)
• Icelandic: vopnahlé n
• Indonesian: gencatan senjata (id)
• Interlingua: cessa-le-foco, armistitio
• Irish: sos cogaidh
• Italian: cessate il fuoco (it) m, armistizio (it) m
• Japanese: 停戦 (ja) (ていせん, teisen), 休戦 (ja) (きゅうせん, kyūsen)
• Kazakh: атысты тоқтату (atysty toqtatu)
• Khmer: បទឈប់បាញ់ (bɑt chup bañ)
• Korean: 정전(停戰) (ko) (jeongjeon), 휴전(休戰) (ko) (hyujeon)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: agirbest (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: атышууну токтотуу (atışuunu toktotuu)
• Lao: ຢຸດຍິງ (yut nying), ການ​ຢຸດ​ຍິງ (kān yut nying)
• Latin: guerra recrēdūta f (medieval)
• Latvian: uguns pārtraukšana f
• Lithuanian: ugnies nutraukimas m
• Macedonian: примирје n (primirje)
• Malay: gencatan senjata
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: зэвсэг хураалт (zevseg xuraalt)

• Norman: cêsse-feu m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: våpenhvile (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: våpenkvile f

• Occitan: alt au fuòc m, alta au fuòc f, alt au fòc m
• Pashto: ډزبندي f (ḍazbandi)
• Persian:

  Dari: آتَش‌بَس (fa) (ātaš-bas)

  Iranian Persian: آتَش‌بَس‎ (âtaš-bas)

• Polish: zawieszenie broni (pl) n, rozejm (pl) m
• Portuguese: cessar-fogo m, armistício (pt) m, trégua (pt) f
• Romanian: încetare a focului f, armistițiu (ro) n
• Romansch: armistizi m
• Russian: прекраще́ние огня́ n (prekraščénije ognjá), переми́рие (ru) n (peremírije)
• Sardinian: tzessade su fogu m, tzessade-su-fogu m
• Scottish Gaelic: fois-losgaidh f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: прекид ватре m, при́мӣрје n

  Roman: prekid vatre m, prímīrje (sh) n

• Slovak: prímerie n
• Slovene: prekinitev ognja f
• Spanish: alto el fuego m, armisticio (es) m, tregua (es) f
• Swahili: usitishaji, usitishaji mapigano, usitishaji vita
• Swedish: vapenvila (sv) n
• Tagalog: tigil-putukan
• Tajik: оташбас (otašbas)
• Thai: การพักรบ (gaan-pák-róp), การหยุดยิง (gaan-yùt-ying)
• Turkish: ateşkes (tr)
• Ukrainian: припине́ння вогню́ n (prypynénnja vohnjú), переми́р'я n (peremýrʺja)
• Urdu: جَن٘گ بَنْدی f (jaṅg bandī)
• Uzbek: oʻt ochishni toʻxtatish
• Vietnamese: lệnh ngừng bắn (vi), đình chiến (vi)

See also

• armistice
• truce