gas mask

See also: gasmask

English

A Russian gas mask.

Alternative forms

• gasmask

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡæs mɑːsk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American, UK) IPA^(key): /ɡæs mæsk/

Noun

gas mask (plural gas masks)

1. A covering for the face with a filter to protect the user from poison gas.
   • 1991 December 15, Saadia Everett, “Protest Beatings”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 22, page 4:

     If we bang or scream they will spray us with some pepper or something else that's in an aeresol ^[sic] can, and they wear gas masks, while the rest of us have to breathe the fumes in, and it makes us very sick and they refuse us medical treatment.

Translations

a covering for the face with a filter to protect the user from poisonous gas

• Arabic: قِنَاع غَاز (qināʕ ḡāz)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: процівага́з m (procivaház)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 防毒面具 (zh) (fángdú miànjù)

• Danish: gasmaske c
• Dutch: gasmasker (nl) n
• Esperanto: gasmasko
• Estonian: gaasimask (et), gaasitorbik (et)
• Faroese: gassskortur m, gassmaska
• Finnish: kaasunaamari (fi)
• French: masque anti-gaz m, masque à gaz (fr) m
• Galician: máscara antigás (gl) f
• Georgian: აირწინაღი (airc̣inaɣi)
• German: Gasmaske (de) f, Atemschutzmaske (de) f
• Greek: αντιασφυξιογόνος μάσκα f (antiasfyxiogónos máska)
• Hebrew: מסכת גז (he) f (masekhát gaz)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: gázálarc (hu)
• Icelandic: gasgríma f
• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
• Ingrian: protivogaza
• Irish: gásphúicín m
• Italian: maschera antigas f
• Japanese: ガスマスク (gasumasuku)
• Latvian: gāzmaska
• Lithuanian: dujokaukė
• Malay: topeng gas
• Manx: far-eddin gas f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gassmaske f or m, vernemaske f or m

  Nynorsk: gassmaske f, vernemaske f

• Polish: maska przeciwgazowa, maska gazowa f
• Portuguese: máscara de gás f
• Romanian: mască de gaze f
• Russian: противога́з (ru) m (protivogáz)
• Samoan: ufimata kesi
• Slovene: plinska maska f
• Spanish: máscara antigás f
• Swedish: gasmask (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: gaz maskesi (tr)
• Ukrainian: протига́з m (protyház)
• Uzbek: gazniqob (uz)
• Vietnamese: mặt nạ chống hơi độc (𩈘𩈩挵𣱬毒) , mặt nạ phòng độc (𩈘𩈩防毒), mặt nạ khí (𩈘𩈩氣)
• West Frisian: gasmasker n
• Yiddish: גאַזמאַסקע f (gazmaske)

Further reading

• gas mask on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• gas mask on the Simple English Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^simple