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** English
[Firelighting]
*** Etymology
From [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[kindlings]
1. Small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire .
2. * [III]
3. The act by which something is kindle d.
4. * DECEMBER 14, 1784 , [Hester Rogers] , _letter to the Rev. Mr. Fletcher_
5. *: The KINDLINGS of love which had been felt before, now became a flame in every believing soul; and when fallen on our knees, the power of God descended of a truth [...]
**** Usage notes
_Kindling_ refers to the second stage of building a fire: tinder is used to
light kindling, which then lights the main fire.
**** Translations
[pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq] , [sq]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [chiefly tinder] [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Navajo: [nv]
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Russian: [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
[trans-bottom]
[act]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
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*** Adjective
[en-adj]
1. Illuminated , lit .
2. * [en]
*** Verb
[en]
1. [en]
[en]