In Germany today, anti-violence rallies took place in several cities, including one near Hamburg where three Turks were killed in an arson attack on Monday.
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Arson
//ˈɑɹsən//
Synonyms for "arson" (4 found)
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82 translations across 52 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- brandstigting noun (crime of setting a fire)
Arabic
1 entries- حَرِيق مُتَعَمَّد noun (crime of setting a fire)
Armenian
2 entries- հրդեհում noun (crime of setting a fire)
- հրկիզում noun (crime of setting a fire)
Belarusian
1 entries- падпа́л noun (crime of setting a fire)
Bengali
1 entries- অগ্নিকাণ্ড noun (crime of setting a fire)
Bulgarian
1 entries- пале́ж noun (crime of setting a fire)
Catalan
1 entries- incendi criminal noun (crime of setting a fire)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 丫臣 noun (crime of setting a fire)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 放火 noun (crime of setting a fire)
- 縱火 /纵火 noun (crime of setting a fire)
Czech
1 entries- žhářství noun (crime of setting a fire)
Danish
3 entries- brandstiftelse noun (crime of setting a fire)
- ildspåsættelse noun (crime of setting a fire)
- pyromanbrand noun (crime of setting a fire)
Dutch
1 entries- brandstichting noun (crime of setting a fire)
Esperanto
2 entries- brulkrimo noun (crime of setting a fire)
- krimfajro noun (crime of setting a fire)
Estonian
1 entries- süütamine noun (crime of setting a fire)
Faroese
1 entries- eldáseting noun (crime of setting a fire)
Finnish
3 entries- syttyminen noun (crime of setting a fire)
- sytyttäminen noun (crime of setting a fire)
- tuhopoltto noun (crime of setting a fire)
French
2 entries- incendie noun (crime of setting a fire)
- incendie criminel noun (crime of setting a fire)
Georgian
1 entries- ცეცხლის წაკიდება noun (crime of setting a fire)
German
2 entries- Brandlegung noun (crime of setting a fire)
- Brandstiftung noun (crime of setting a fire)
Greek
1 entries- εμπρησμός noun (crime of setting a fire)
Hebrew
1 entries- הַצָּתָה noun (crime of setting a fire)
Hindi
2 entries- अग्निकांड noun (crime of setting a fire)
- आगज़नी noun (crime of setting a fire)
Hungarian
1 entries- gyújtogatás noun (crime of setting a fire)
Icelandic
1 entries- íkveikja noun (crime of setting a fire)
Indonesian
1 entries- pembakaran disengaja noun (crime of setting a fire)
Irish
1 entries- coirloscadh noun (crime of setting a fire)
Italian
1 entries- incendio doloso noun (crime of setting a fire)
Japanese
2 entries- 放火 noun (crime of setting a fire)
- 放火罪 noun (crime of setting a fire)
Korean
1 entries- 방화 noun (crime of setting a fire)
Lithuanian
1 entries- padegimas noun (crime of setting a fire)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Brandstëftung noun (crime of setting a fire)
Macedonian
2 entries- опожарување noun (crime of setting a fire)
- палеж noun (crime of setting a fire)
Marathi
1 entries- जाळपोळ noun (crime of setting a fire)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- brannstiftelse noun (crime of setting a fire)
- ildspåsettelse noun (crime of setting a fire)
- mordbrann noun (crime of setting a fire)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- brannstifting noun (crime of setting a fire)
- eldspåsetjing noun (crime of setting a fire)
Persian
1 entries- آتشزنی noun (crime of setting a fire)
Polish
1 entries- podpalenie noun (crime of setting a fire)
Portuguese
1 entries- incêndio criminoso noun (crime of setting a fire)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਅਗਨੀਕਾੰਡ noun (crime of setting a fire)
Romanian
1 entries- incendiere noun (crime of setting a fire)
Russian
1 entries- поджо́г noun (crime of setting a fire)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- pálež noun (crime of setting a fire)
- па́леж noun (crime of setting a fire)
Slovak
1 entries- podpaľačstvo noun (crime of setting a fire)
Slovene
1 entries- požig noun (crime of setting a fire)
Spanish
4 entries- crimen incendiario noun (crime of setting a fire)
- delito de incendio noun (crime of setting a fire)
- incendio criminal noun (crime of setting a fire)
- incendio delictivo noun (crime of setting a fire)
Swedish
2 entries- antändning noun (crime of setting a fire)
- mordbrand noun (crime of setting a fire)
Turkish
2 entries- kundaklama noun (crime of setting a fire)
- kundakçılık noun (crime of setting a fire)
Ukrainian
1 entries- підпа́л noun (crime of setting a fire)
Urdu
2 entries- آتِش زَدَگی noun (crime of setting a fire)
- آتِش زَنی noun (crime of setting a fire)
Vietnamese
2 entries- phóng hỏa noun (crime of setting a fire)
- đốt phá noun (crime of setting a fire)
Walloon
1 entries- målfeu (metou) noun (crime of setting a fire)
Welsh
1 entries- llosgi noun (crime of setting a fire)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
The fire that broke out last night was judged to be caused by arson.
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It was a fire by arson.
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They think it was arson.
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