hand grenade

See also: hand-grenade

English

Alternative forms

• hand-grenade

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhænd.ɡɹəˈneɪd/, /ˈhænd.ɡɚˈneɪd/

Noun

hand grenade (plural hand grenades)

1. (military) A small hand-held explosive device designed to be thrown at an enemy.
2. (archaic) A fire grenade (kind of portable fire extinguisher).

Hypernyms

• grenade

Hyponyms

• grenado
• holy hand grenade
• Mills bomb
• pineapple grenade / pineapple
• potato-masher grenade / potato masher

Coordinate terms

(explosive device):

• rifle grenade
• rocket-propelled grenade

Derived terms

• almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades
• holy hand grenade

 

Related terms

• grenade

Translations

explosive device

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: նռնակ (hy) (nṙnak)
• Azerbaijani: qumbara (az)
• Belarusian: ручная граната f (ručnaja hranata)
• Catalan: granada de mà f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 手榴彈／手榴弹 (zh) (shǒuliúdàn), 手雷 (zh) (shǒuléi)

• Danish: håndgranat c
• Esperanto: mangrenado
• Estonian: käsigranaat
• Finnish: käsikranaatti (fi)
• French: grenade à main f
• Galician: granada de man (gl)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Handgranate (de) f
• Greek: χειροβομβίδα (el) f (cheirovomvída)
• Hausa: gùr̃nêt f
• Hebrew: רמון יד (rimon yad)
• Hungarian: kézigránát (hu)
• Ido: grenado (io)
• Indonesian: granat tangan
• Italian: granata (it) f, bomba a mano f
• Japanese: 手榴弾 (ja) (てりゅうだん, teryūdan, しゅりゅうだん, shuryūdan), 手投げ弾 (てなげだん, tenagedan)
• Latvian: rokas granāta f
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: dadilhóni aheltłʼidígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: håndgranat m, handgranat m

  Nynorsk: handgranat m

• Polish: granat ręczny m
• Portuguese: granada de mão f
• Punjabi: ਹੱਥ ਗੋਲ਼ਾ m (hattha goḷā)
• Romanian: grenadă de mână f
• Russian: (ручна́я (ručnája)) грана́та (ru) f (granáta)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: granada de mano f
• Swedish: handgranat (sv) c
• Turkish: el bombası
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: llawfom f