firelighter

English

Etymology

From fire +‎ lighter.

Noun

firelighter (plural firelighters)

1. A small block of a flammable substance, typically a combination of sawdust and wax, used to light fires.

   Hyponym: (obsolete) fireball

Translations

small block of a flammable substance used to light fires

• Bulgarian: подпа́лка f (podpálka)
• Danish: optændingsblok
• Dutch: aanmaakblokje (nl) n
• Finnish: sytytyspala
• French: allume-feu (fr) m
• Greek: προσάναμμα (el) n (prosánamma)
• Hungarian: alágyújtós (hu)
• Icelandic: uppkveikikubbur
• Irish: adhantaí m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tennbrikett

  Nynorsk: tennbrikett

• Polish: podpałka (pl) f
• Russian: расто́пка (ru) f (rastópka)
• Swedish: tändbrikett