"afire" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /əˈfaɪɚ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-afire.wav Forms: more afire [comparative], most afire [superlative]
Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ) Etymology: 13ᵗʰc., from a- (“on”) + fire. Figurative usage from late 14ᵗʰc. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|a|fire|t1=on}} a- (“on”) + fire Head templates: {{en-adj}} afire (comparative more afire, superlative most afire)
  1. On fire (often metaphorically). Synonyms: ablaze, aflame Derived forms: chimney's afire, like a house afire, set afire, set the world afire Translations (literally on fire): пламнал (plamnal) (Bulgarian), запален (zapalen) (Bulgarian), in brand (Dutch), tulessa (Finnish), liekeissä (Finnish), ardent (French), ცეცხლწაკიდებული (cecxlc̣aḳidebuli) (Georgian), ალმოდებული (almodebuli) (Georgian), in Flammen (German), in Brand (German), ardiendo (Spanish) Translations (metaphorically on fire): tulessa (Finnish), ardent (French), Feuer und Flamme sein (German), begeistert sein (German)
    Sense id: en-afire-en-adj-G3RL3ZX9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with a-, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 80 20 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with a-: 53 47 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 95 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 86 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 95 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 86 14 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 95 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 67 33 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 84 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 95 5

Adverb [English]

IPA: /əˈfaɪɚ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-afire.wav Forms: more afire [comparative], most afire [superlative]
Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ) Etymology: 13ᵗʰc., from a- (“on”) + fire. Figurative usage from late 14ᵗʰc. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|a|fire|t1=on}} a- (“on”) + fire Head templates: {{en-adv}} afire (comparative more afire, superlative most afire)
  1. On fire (often metaphorically).
    Sense id: en-afire-en-adv-G3RL3ZX9 Categories (other): English terms prefixed with a- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with a-: 53 47

Verb [Galician]

Head templates: {{head|gl|verb form}} afire
  1. inflection of aferir:
    third-person singular present indicative
    Tags: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Form of: aferir
    Sense id: en-afire-gl-verb-N2reCEq7 Categories (other): Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Galician entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 19 1 72 8 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 15 1 79 5 Disambiguation of Galician entries with incorrect language header: 87 13
  2. inflection of aferir:
    second-person singular imperative
    Tags: form-of, imperative, second-person, singular Form of: aferir
    Sense id: en-afire-gl-verb-LgX-Q4Id
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          "sense": "literally on fire",
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          "sense": "literally on fire",
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "literally on fire",
          "word": "liekeissä"
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "literally on fire",
          "word": "ardent"
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          "sense": "literally on fire",
          "word": "ცეცხლწაკიდებული"
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "literally on fire",
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "literally on fire",
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          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "literally on fire",
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          "sense": "metaphorically on fire",
          "word": "tulessa"
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          "word": "Feuer und Flamme sein"
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          "sense": "metaphorically on fire",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.