gas chamber

English

A gas chamber in Dachau

Noun

gas chamber (plural gas chambers)

1. A sealed chamber in which people are executed with poison gas.
   • 2007, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men (motion picture), spoken by Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones):

     There was this boy I sent to the gas chamber at Huntsville here a while back. My arrest and my testimony. He killed a fourteen-year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out he'd do it again.

Hypernyms

• death chamber

Translations

a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas

• Arabic: غُرْفَة اَلْغَاز f (ḡurfat al-ḡāz)
• Belarusian: га́завая ка́мера f (házavaja kámjera)
• Bulgarian: га́зова камера f (gázova kamera)
• Catalan: cambra de gas f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毒氣室／毒气室 (dúqìshì)

• Czech: plynová komora f
• Danish: gaskammer n
• Dutch: gaskamer (nl) c
• Estonian: gaasikamber
• Finnish: kaasukammio (fi)
• French: chambre à gaz (fr) f
• German: Gaskammer (de) f, Vergasungskeller m
• Greek: θάλαμος αερίων (el) m (thálamos aeríon)
• Hebrew: תא גזים (he) m (ta-gázim)
• Hindi: गैस चैम्बर (gais caimbar)
• Hungarian: gázkamra (hu)
• Italian: camera a gas (it) f
• Japanese: ガス室 (gasu-shitsu)
• Korean: 가스 처형실 (gaseu cheohyeongsil)
• Macedonian: гасна комора f (gasna komora)
• Manx: shamyr ghas f
• Mongolian: хийн камер (xiin kamer)
• Norwegian: gasskammer
• Persian: اتاق گاز (otâq-e gâz)
• Polish: komora gazowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: câmara de gás f
• Romanian: cameră de gazare f
• Russian: га́зовая ка́мера (ru) f (gázovaja kámera)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гасна комора f

  Roman: gasna komora f

• Slovak: plynová komora f
• Spanish: cámara de gas f
• Swedish: gaskammare (sv) c
• Thai: ห้องแก๊ส (hông gáet), ห้องอบไอพิษ (hông òp ai pít)
• Turkish: gaz odası
• Ukrainian: га́зова ка́мера (uk) f (házova kámera)
• Vietnamese: buồng khí
• Yiddish: גאַז קאַמער f (gaz kamer)

Further reading

• gas chamber on Wikipedia.Wikipedia