# battlefield
## English
### Alternative forms

* battle-field

### Etymology

From battle +‎ field.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

battlefield (plural battlefields)
* The area where a land battle is fought, which may not necessarily be a field.
    Synonyms: battleground, field of battle
** 1886, Ulysses S. Grant, chapter 35, in Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant‎:The night of the 16th of May found McPherson's command bivouacked from two to six miles west of the battlefield, along the line of the road to Vicksburg
** 1939 September, John D. Hewitt, “The Kington Branch of the G.W.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 191:Though in the past it saw much of the unhappiness and strife of Border warfare—the great battlefields of Pilleth and Mortimer's Cross are nearby—it is now a quiet and happy place.

#### Derived terms

* Battlefielder
* belemnite battlefield
* hyperactive battlefield

#### Translations

Albanian: log (sq) m, fushë betejë f
Arabic: سَاحَة حَرْب f (sāḥat ḥarb), سَاحَة مَعْرَكَة f (sāḥat maʕraka), مُعْتَرَك m (muʕtarak), مُقْتَتَل m (muqtatal)
Armenian: ռազմադաշտ (hy) (ṙazmadašt), մարտադաշտ (hy) (martadašt)
Belarusian: по́ле бо́ю n (pólje bóju), по́ле бі́твы n (pólje bítvy)
Bengali: ময়দান (bn) (moẏodan)
Bulgarian: бо́йно поле́ n (bójno polé), бои́ще n (boíšte) (dated or poetic), полесраже́ние (bg) n (polesražénie)
Burmese: စစ်တလင်း (my) (cacta.lang:), စစ်မြေပြင် (cacmre-prang)
Catalan: camp de batalla m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 戰場 / 战场 (zh) (zhànchǎng), 沙場 / 沙场 (zh) (shāchǎng)
Crimean Tatar: please add this translation if you can
Czech: bojiště (cs) n
Danish: slagmark c
Dutch: slagveld (nl) n
Egyptian: (prj)
Esperanto: batalejo
Estonian: lahinguväli
Finnish: taistelukenttä (fi), taistelutanner (fi)
French: champ de bataille (fr) m
Old French: champ m
German: Schlachtfeld (de) n
Greek: πεδίο μάχης (el) n (pedío máchis)
Gujarati: યુદ્ધક્ષેત્ર (yuddhakṣetra)
Hebrew: שְׂדֵה קְרָב (he) m (s'de k'ráv)
Hindi: युद्धक्षेत्र m (yuddhakṣetra)
Hungarian: harcmező (hu), csatatér (hu)
Icelandic: vígvöllur (is) m
Indonesian: medan tempur, medan perang (id)
Irish: ármhá f, blár catha m, fód catha m, machaire catha m
Italian: campo di battaglia m
Japanese: 戦場 (ja) (せんじょう, senjō)
Kannada: ಸಮರಂಗ (kn) (samaraṅga), ರಣರಂಗ (kn) (raṇaraṅga)
Kazakh: ұрыс алаңы (ūrys alañy)
Khmer: រឿណរង្គ (km) (rɨən rŭəng), សមរភូមិ (saʼmaʼraʼ phuum)
Korean: 전장(戰場) (ko) (jeonjang), 싸움터 (ko) (ssaumteo), 전장터 (jeonjangteo)
Lao: ສະໜາມລົບ (sa nām lop), ສນາມຣົບ (sa nām rop), ສມໍຣະພູມ (sa mǭ ra phūm)
Latvian: karalauks m
Lithuanian: mūšio laukas m
Luxembourgish: Schluechtfeld n
Macedonian: бојно поле n (bojno pole), боиште n (boište)
Malayalam: യുദ്ധക്കളം (ml) (yuddhakkaḷaṁ)
Maori: tahua riringa, tūmū, māra o te pakanga, kauhanga riri, parekura, pae o te pakanga, tūmū
Norwegian:
Bokmål: slagmark (no) m or f
Nynorsk: slagmark f
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: боище n (boište)
Old English: wælstōw f
Ottoman Turkish: مصف (masaff)
Persian: میدان نبرد (meydân-e nabard), میدان جنگ (meydân-e jang)
Polish: pole bitwy (pl) n, pobojowisko (pl) n, pole walki n
Portuguese: campo de batalha m
Punjabi: ਜੰਗ ਦਾ ਮੈਦਾਨ m (jaṅg dā maidān)
Romanian: câmp de luptă n
Russian: по́ле бо́я n (póle bója), по́ле би́твы n (póle bítvy), по́ле бра́ни n (póle bráni)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бо̏јӣште n, бо̀јӣшница f, бојно поље n, по̏прӣште n
Roman: bȍjīšte (sh) n, bòjīšnica (sh) f, bojno polje n, pȍprīšte (sh) n
Shan: ပၢင်တိုၵ်း (pǎang túek)
Sinhalese: යුධ පිටිය (yudha piṭiya)
Slovak: bojisko n
Slovene: bojišče n
Spanish: campo de batalla (es) m
Swahili: uwanja wa vita
Swedish: slagfält (sv) c, krigsfält c
Telugu: యుద్ధరంగము (te) (yuddharaṅgamu), రణరంగము (te) (raṇaraṅgamu)
Thai: สนามรบ (th) (sà-nǎam-róp)
Turkish: savaş meydanı, savaş alanı (tr)
Ukrainian: по́ле бо́ю n (póle bóju), по́ле би́тви n (póle býtvy), побо́їще n (pobójišče)
Urdu: مَیدان جَنگ (maidān-e jang)
Vietnamese: chiến trường (vi) (戰場)
Welsh: cadlan f
Yiddish: שלאַכטפֿעלד n (shlakhtfeld) :

### See also

* battlespace