bombardment

English

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

Etymology

bombard +‎ -ment

Noun

bombardment (countable and uncountable, plural bombardments)

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

Quotations

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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) (ṙmbakocutʿyun)
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