ceasefire

English

Alternative forms

• cease-fire, cease fire

Etymology

From cease +‎ fire.

Pronunciation

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Noun

ceasefire (plural ceasefires)

1. In warfare, an agreed end to hostilities for a specific purpose. (Typically only temporary).

   The rebels agreed to a ceasefire while the peace talks were underway.

   Negotiators mediated a ceasefire.

   • 2025 February 21, Scott Peterson, “Once-occupied Ukraine towns try to stay defiant amid fear over Russia gains”, in The Christian Science Monitor‎^[1], archived from the original on 28 February 2025:

     But residents say steady Russian military pressure – combined now with an American president’s apparent parroting of Kremlin talking points about the war, and his push for a ceasefire that could include Ukrainian territorial losses – means Russia is also winning in a different way, by escalating Ukrainian anxiety.

   • 2025 May 10, Nick Paton Walsh, “Ukraine ceasefire call is aimed at forcing Putin to reveal his war goals to Trump”, in CNN‎^[2], archived from the original on 25 May 2025:

     Putin’s answered by simply stating he did not believe Ukraine had honored the previous ceasefires Moscow had unilaterally called, and that Kyiv has said Moscow never respected either.

Translations

in warfare, an agreed end to hostilities for a specific purpose

• Afrikaans: vuurstaking, wapenstilstand, skietstilstand
• Albanian: armëpushim (sq) m, pushim zjarri m
• Arabic: هُدْنَة f (hudna), وَقْف نَار m (waqf nār), وَقْف إِطْلَاق نَار m (waqf ʔiṭlāq nār)
• Armenian: հրադադար (hy) (hradadar)
• Azerbaijani: atəşkəs
• Basque: su-eten
• Belarusian: спыне́нне агню́ n (spynjénnje ahnjú), замiрэ́нне n (zamirénnje), перамі́р'е n (pjeramírʺje)
• Bulgarian: прими́рие (bg) n (primírie), прекратя́ване на о́гъня n (prekratjávane na ógǎnja)
• Catalan: alto el foc m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 停火 (zh) (tínghuǒ), 休戰 / 休战 (zh) (xiūzhàn), 停戰 / 停战 (zh) (tíngzhàn)

• Corsican: cessate u focu m
• Czech: příměří (cs) n
• Danish: våbenhvile (da) c
• Dutch: staakt-het-vuren (nl) n, wapenstilstand (nl), vuurstaking f
• Esperanto: militpaŭzo
• Estonian: relvarahu
• Faroese: vápnahvíld f
• Finnish: tulitauko (fi)
• French: cessez-le-feu (fr) m, trêve (fr) f
• Galician: alto o fogo m
• Georgian: ცეცხლის შეწყვეტა (cecxlis šec̣q̇veṭa), საომარი მოქმედების შეწყვეტა (saomari mokmedebis šec̣q̇veṭa)
• German: Waffenstillstand (de) m, Feuerpause (de) f, Feuereinstellung f

  Bavarian: Woffnstuistand m

• Greek: εκεχειρία (el) f (ekecheiría), ανακωχή (el) f (anakochí)

  Ancient Greek: ἀνακωχή f (anakōkhḗ)

• Greenlandic: akiuukkunnaarallarneq
• Hebrew: הַפְסָקַת־אֵשׁ (he) f (hafsakát-ésh)
• Hindi: युद्धविराम m (yuddhavirām)
• Hungarian: tűzszünet (hu), fegyverszünet (hu)
• Icelandic: vopnahlé n
• Indonesian: gencatan senjata (id)
• Interlingua: cessa-le-foco, armistitio
• Irish: sos cogaidh
• Italian: cessate il fuoco (it) m, armistizio (it) m
• Japanese: 停戦 (ja) (ていせん, teisen), 休戦 (ja) (きゅうせん, kyūsen)
• Kazakh: атысты тоқтату (atysty toqtatu)
• Khmer: បទឈប់បាញ់ (bɑt chup bañ)
• Korean: 정전(停戰) (ko) (jeongjeon), 휴전(休戰) (ko) (hyujeon)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئاگربەست (agirbest)

  Northern Kurdish: agirbest (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: атышууну токтотуу (atışuunu toktotuu)
• Lao: ຢຸດຍິງ (yut nying), ການ​ຢຸດ​ຍິງ (kān yut nying)
• Latin: guerra recrēdūta f (medieval)
• Latvian: uguns pārtraukšana f
• Lithuanian: ugnies nutraukimas m
• Macedonian: примирје n (primirje)
• Malay: gencatan senjata (ms)
• Marathi: युद्धविराम m (yuddhavirām), गोळाबंदी f (goḷābandī), लढाईबंदी f (laḍhāībandī)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: зэвсэг хураалт (zevseg xuraalt)

• Norman: cêsse-feu m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: våpenhvile (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: våpenkvile f

• Occitan: alt au fuòc m, alta au fuòc f, alt au fòc m
• Pannonian Rusyn: претаргнуце огня n (pretarhnuce ohnja)
• Pashto: ډزبندي f (ḍazbandi)
• Persian:

  Dari: آتَش‌بَس (ātaš-bas)

  Iranian Persian: آتَش‌بَس (âtaš-bas)

• Polish: zawieszenie broni (pl) n, rozejm (pl) m
• Portuguese: cessar-fogo m, armistício (pt) m, trégua (pt) f
• Romanian: încetare a focului f, armistițiu (ro) n
• Romansh: armistizi m
• Russian: прекраще́ние огня́ n (prekraščénije ognjá), переми́рие (ru) n (peremírije)
• Sardinian: tzessade su fogu m, tzessade-su-fogu m
• Scots: cease-fire, ceasefire, cease-fyr, ceasefyr
• Scottish Gaelic: fois-losgaidh f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: прекид ватре m, при́мӣрје n

  Latin: prekid vatre m, prímīrje (sh) n

• Sicilian: cissati lu focu m
• Slovak: prímerie n
• Slovene: prekinitev ognja f
• Spanish: alto el fuego m, armisticio (es) m, tregua (es) f, cese al fuego m
• Swahili: usitishaji, usitishaji mapigano, usitishaji vita
• Swedish: vapenvila (sv) n
• Tagalog: tigil-putukan
• Tajik: оташбас (otašbas)
• Thai: การพักรบ (gaan-pák-róp), การหยุดยิง (gaan-yùt-ying)
• Turkish: ateşkes (tr)
• Ukrainian: припине́ння вогню́ n (prypynénnja vohnjú), переми́р'я n (peremýrʺja)
• Urdu: جَن٘گ بَنْدی f (jaṅg bandī)
• Uzbek: oʻt ochishni toʻxtatish
• Vietnamese: lệnh ngừng bắn (vi), đình chiến (vi) (停戰)

See also

• armistice
• truce