minefield

English

Alternative forms

• mine field

Etymology

From mine +‎ field.

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

minefield (plural minefields)

1. An area in which land mines or naval mines have been laid.
2. (figuratively, by extension) A risky, precarious or dangerous situation.
   • 2022 June 1, Ken Lohatepanont, “Political minefield awaits Prayut government”, in Thai Enquirer‎^[1], Bangkok: Thai News Corp, retrieved 2022-06-01:

     Political minefield awaits Prayut government including threat from an old foe

3. (cricket) A pitch that has dried out and crumbled and on which the ball is bouncing and spinning unpredictably.
4. A quiz that terminates when the test-taker answers a question incorrectly.

   Synonym: minefield quiz

Derived terms

• tiptoe through a minefield

Translations

area in which mines have been hidden

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: حَقْلُ أَلْغَام (ḥaqlu ʔalḡām)
• Armenian: ականապատ դաշտ (akanapat dašt)
• Azerbaijani: mina sahəsi
• Belarusian: мі́ннае по́ле n (mínnaje pólje)
• Bulgarian: ми́нно поле́ n (mínno polé)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雷區 / 雷区 (zh) (léiqū)

• Czech: minové pole n
• Danish: minefelt n
• Dutch: mijnenveld (nl) n
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: miiniväli
• Finnish: miinakenttä (fi); miinoite (military technical term)
• French: champ de mines (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Minenfeld (de) n
• Greek: ναρκοπέδιο (el) n (narkopédio)
• Hungarian: aknamező (hu)
• Italian: campo minato m
• Japanese: 地雷原 (ja) (jiraigen, じらいげん)
• Khmer: តំបន់បង្កប់មីន (tɑmbɑn bɑngkɑp miin)
• Korean: 지뢰밭 (jiroebat), 지뢰원(地雷原) (jiroewon)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: минско поле n (minsko pole)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: минажуулсан газар (minažuulsan gazar)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: minefelt n

  Nynorsk: minefelt n

• Polish: pole minowe (pl) n
• Portuguese: campo minado m
• Romanian: câmp minat n
• Russian: ми́нное по́ле (ru) n (mínnoje póle)
• Slovak: mínové pole n
• Spanish: campo de minas m
• Swedish: minfält (sv) n, minerad mark c (also used figuratively)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: мі́нне по́ле n (mínne póle)
• Vietnamese: bãi mìn

dangerous situation

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 險境 / 险境 (zh) (xiǎnjìng)

• Czech: minové pole n
• Finnish: miinakenttä (fi)
• French: terrain miné m, terrain glissant (fr) m
• German: Minenfeld (de) n
• Greek: ναρκοπέδιο (el) n (narkopédio)
• Hungarian: ingoványos terület, veszélyes terep
• Italian: campo minato m
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: campo minado m
• Russian: ми́нное по́ле (ru) n (mínnoje póle)
• Spanish: campo de minas m
• Swedish: minfält (sv)

Further reading

• Land mine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• dimefline, mefenidil