# blaze
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bleɪz/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪz

### Etymology 1

From Middle English blase, from Old English blæse, blase (“firebrand, torch, lamp, flame”), from Proto-West Germanic *blasā, from Proto-Germanic *blasǭ (“torch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine, be white”).
Cognate with Low German blas (“burning candle, torch, fire”), Middle High German blas (“candle, torch, flame”).

#### Noun

blaze (plural blazes)
* A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
** 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, […].
* Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
    They sought shelter from the blaze of the sun.
** 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 13:O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, / Irrecoverably dark, total Eclipse / Without all hope of day!
* A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
    blaze:
    Synonyms: safety orange, international orange
* A bursting out, or active display of any quality.
    Synonym: outburst
** c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:his blaze of wrath
** 1671, John Milton, “The Fourth Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 3:For what is glory but the blaze of fame?
* (poker) A hand consisting of five face cards.

##### Derived terms

* ablaze
* blazar
* blazeless
* blazen
* blaze of glory
* blaze orange
* blazer
* blaze-up
* blazy
* emblaze
* imblaze
* outblaze
* reblaze
* rekern
* upblaze

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English blasen, from Middle English blase (“torch”). See above.

#### Verb

blaze (third-person singular simple present blazes, present participle blazing, simple past and past participle blazed)
* (intransitive) To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.
    The campfire blazed merrily.
* (intransitive) To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame.
** 1793, William Wordsworth, Descriptive Sketches:And far and wide the icy summit blaze.
** 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned, […] and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights.
* (intransitive, poetic) To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.).
* (transitive, rare) To set in a blaze; burn.
* (transitive) To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
* (figurative) To be furiously angry; to speak or write in a rage.
** 1929, Reginald Charles Barker, The Hair-trigger Brand, page 160:“I’ll die before I let my grandad pay you that much money!” blazed the girl.
* (slang) To smoke marijuana.
** 2005, “We Major”, in Late Registration, performed by Kanye West ft. Really Doe and Nas:I take a hit of that chronic, it got me stuck / But really what’s amazing is how I keep blazing
** 2015, Jme (lyrics and music), “Pulse 8” (track 1), in Integrity>, performed by Jme:Fam, I don’t blaze / But I can bill up, so if I get bored / I might mm, bill it / At studio, I’m like mm, kill it

##### Related terms

* blaze a trail
* blaze away
* blaze down
* blaze on
* blaze up
* blazing star
* guns blazing

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

A 1639 borrowing, perhaps from Dutch bles or Middle Low German blesse, bles, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *blasī, from Proto-Germanic *blasį̄, from *blasaz (“white, pale (of animals)”) + *-į̄ (forming nouns), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“shiny, white”). Cognate with German Blesse, Swedish bläs. The verb is from the noun.

#### Noun

blaze (plural blazes)
* The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
    The palomino had a white blaze on its face.
* A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
** 1855, Baynard Rush Hall, The New Purchase: Or, Early Years in the Far West - Page 71‎:The blaze is a longitudinal cut on trees at convenient intervals, made by cutting off the bark with an axe or hatchet: three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a legislative road, the single blaze, a settlement or neighbourhood road.

##### Translations
#### Verb

blaze (third-person singular simple present blazes, present participle blazing, simple past and past participle blazed)
* (transitive, only in the past participle) To mark with a white spot on the face (as a horse).
* (transitive) To set a mark on (as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark).
** 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 105:They had, just as we expected they would, cut Stuart’s tracks, and had actually slept one night in one of his old camping-places, finding the trees “blazed” and marked “S.,” as were all the trees at intervals along his line of exploration.
** 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:We drew them up, therefore, and concealed them among the bushes, blazing a tree with our axes, so that we should find them again.
* (transitive) To indicate or mark out (a trail, especially through vegetation) by a series of blazes.
    The guide blazed his way through the undergrowth.
* (transitive) To mark off or stake a claim to land.
    He blazed his claim on the land.
* (transitive, figurative) To set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example.
    Darwin blazed a path for the rest of us.

##### Translations
### Etymology 4

From Middle English blasen (“to blow”), from Old English *blǣsan, from Proto-West Germanic *blāsan, from Proto-Germanic *blēsaną (“to blow”). Related to English blast.

#### Verb

blaze (third-person singular simple present blazes, present participle blazing, simple past and past participle blazed)
* (transitive) To blow, as from a trumpet.
* (transitive) To publish; announce publicly.
* (transitive) To disclose; bewray; defame.
* (transitive, heraldry) To blazon.
** 1576, Gerard LEGH, The Accedens of Armory. With an address to the Reader by R. Argoll. Woodcuts. MS. notes, page 28:And nowe here is another crosse for your learning, and is thus blazed. The field is Argét, a playn crosse Gules, voyded of the first.
** 1597, John Bossewell, Works of Armorie: devided into 3 Bookes, intituled the Concordes of Armorie, the Armorie of Honor and of lotes and creastes, page 28:[...] yée thal blaze his Armes thus. A. beareth Argent, and Sable parted per Pale.
** 1877, Henry Sydney Grazebrook, Collections for a genealogy of the noble families of Henzey, Tyttery, and Tyzack, page 26:Beinge thus blazed: Henzell On a ffeild Gules, beareth Three Acornes Slipped Or; Two and One.

#### Noun

blaze (plural blazes)
* Publication; the act of spreading widely by report.

### References

* “blaze”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “blaze”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* ↑ “blaze, n.$^2$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “blaze (n.2.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
* ↑ “blaze, v.$^3$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “blaze (v.3.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* Elbaz, Zabel

## Czech
### Etymology

From blahý +‎ -e.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈblazɛ]
* Audio (Czech Republic):(file)
* Rhymes: -azɛ
* Hyphenation: bla‧ze

### Adverb

blaze (comparative blažeji, superlative nejblažeji)
* blissfully, happily
** 1868, Emanuel František Züngel, “Triolet”, in Básně‎, pages 20–21:Pak budu zas tiše, blaze žíti, zapomenuv na to, co mne hnětlo; mír a pokoj budu v duši míti.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Related terms

* blaženě
* mile
* šťastně

#### Related terms

* blaho
* blahobyt
* blahobytně
* blahobytný
* blahořečit
* blahosklonně
* blahosklonný
* blahoslavený
* blahoslavit
* blahý
* blaze tomu, kdo nic nemá, nestará se, kam to schová
* blaženě
* blažený
* blažit
* oblažovat

### Further reading

* “blaze”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “blaze”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “blaze”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈblaːzə]
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

blaze
* (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of blazen

### Anagrams

* bazel

## West Frisian
### Etymology

From Old Frisian *blēsa, from Proto-West Germanic *blāsan, from Proto-Germanic *blēsaną.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈblazə/

### Verb

blaze
* to blow

#### Further reading

* “blaze (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

## Yola
### Alternative forms

* bleaze, blease

### Etymology

From Middle English blase, from Old English blase, from Proto-West Germanic *blasā.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /blaːz/, /blɛːz/

### Noun

blaze
* faggot

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 26