bombardment

English

The city of Minsk under bombardment by Luftwaffe, 24th of June 1941.

Etymology

bombard +‎ -ment

Noun

bombardment (countable and uncountable, plural bombardments)

1. the act of bombing, especially towns or cities
2. heavy artillery fire
3. (physics) the incidence of an intense stream of high-energy particles directed at a substance

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:bombardment.

Derived terms

• Late Heavy Bombardment

Translations

act of bombing, esp towns or cities

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: قَصْف m (qaṣf)
• Armenian: ռմբակոծում (hy) (ṙmbakocum), ռմբակոծություն (hy) (ṙmbakocutʻyun)
• Belarusian: бамбава́нне n (bambavánnje), бамбёжка f (bambjóžka)
• Bulgarian: бомбардиро́вка f (bombardiróvka)
• Catalan: bombardeig (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 轟擊／轰击 (zh) (hōngjī), 砲擊／炮击 (pàojī)

• Dutch: bombardement (nl) n
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: pommitus (fi)
• French: bombardement (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Bombardierung (de) f, Bombardement (de) n (dated)
• Hungarian: bombázás (hu)
• Italian: bombardamento (it)
• Japanese: 爆撃 (ja) (bakugeki), 砲撃 (ja) (hōgeki)
• Korean: 포격 (ko) (pogyeok)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: bombardement m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bombardement n

  Nynorsk: bombardement n

• Persian: بمباردمان (bombârdemân)
• Polish: bombardowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: bombardeamento (pt), bombardeio (pt)
• Romanian: bombardament (ro), bombardare (ro) f
• Russian: бомбардиро́вка (ru) f (bombardiróvka), бомбёжка (ru) f (bombjóžka)
• Slovak: bombardovanie n
• Spanish: bombardeo (es) m
• Swedish: bombning (sv) c
• Tagalog: pagtampol
• Turkish: bombardıman (tr)
• Ukrainian: бомбардува́ння (uk) n (bombarduvánnja), бомбува́ння (uk) n (bombuvánnja)

heavy artillery fire

• Bulgarian: бомбардиро́вка f (bombardiróvka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 砲擊／炮击 (pàojī)

• Finnish: tykistökeskitys
• German: Beschuss (de) m
• Japanese: 爆撃 (ja) (bakugeki), 砲撃 (ja) (hōgeki)
• Russian: бомбардиро́вка (ru) f (bombardiróvka), артобстре́л (ru) m (artobstrél), артиллери́йский обстре́л m (artilleríjskij obstrél), канона́да (ru) f (kanonáda)
• Tagalog: tampol

incidence of stream of high-energy particles

• Finnish: hiukkaspommitus, pommitus (fi)
• Japanese: 衝撃 (ja) (shōgeki), 照射 (ja) (shōsha)
• Russian: бомбардиро́вка (ru) f (bombardiróvka)
• Spanish: bombardeo (es) m
• Tagalog: tampol, pagtampol

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Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} bombardement (fr) m
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} bombardeo (es) m

See also

• bombard
• bombarded