frostbite

frostbite

English

Hands afflicted with frostbite.

Etymology

frost +‎ bite

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: please add this translation if you can Armenian: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: измръзване n (izmrǎzvane), измръзнало място n (izmrǎznalo mjasto) Chinese: Mandarin: 凍瘡／冻疮 (zh) (dòngchuāng), 凍傷／冻伤 (zh) (dòngshāng), 瘃 (zh) (zhú) Dutch: bevriezing (nl) f Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Estonian: külmakahjustus Faroese: frost n, frostsár n Finnish: paleltuminen, paleltuma (fi), pakkasenpurema French: gelure (fr) f Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Erfrierung (de) f, Frostbeule (de) f Greek: κρυοπάγημα (el) n (kryopágima) Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Irish: dó seaca m Italian: gelone (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) Korean: 동상(凍傷) (ko) (dongsang) Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: подноктица f (podnoktica) Malay: luka beku Maori: 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: degerătură (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 c, förfrysning (sv) c Tibetan: གངས་ཕྱིད (gangs phyid) Turkish: soğuk ısırması (tr) Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can 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

Dutch: bevriezen (nl) Finnish: palelluttaa (fi) Maori: mate hukapuri Nepali: काठिनु (kāṭhinu), कठ्याङ्ग्रिनु (kaṭhyāṅgrinu), काठ्ठिनु (kāṭhṭhinu), गँगरिनु (gãgarinu) Persian: شجیدن‎ (šajidan) Polish: odmrozić pf, odmrażać impf Russian: отморо́зить (ru) pf (otmorózitʹ) Spanish: congelar (es)

Further reading

• frostbite on Wikipedia.Wikipedia