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Definition: Gun |
GunNoun1. A weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel). 2. Large but transportable armament. 3. A person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability). 4. A professional killer who uses a gun. 5. A hand-operated pump that resembles a gun; forces grease into parts of a machine. 6. A pedal that controls the throttle valve; "he stepped on the gas". 7. The discharge of a gun as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies; "a twenty gun salute". Verb1. Shoot with a gun. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gun" was first used: 13th century. (references) |
Etymology: Gun \Gun\, noun. [Old English gonne, gunne; of uncertain origin; compare to Ir., Gael.) A Late Latin gunna, Welsh gum; possibly (like cannon) from Latin canna reed, tube; or abbreviated from Old French mangonnel, English mangonel, a machine for hurling stones.]. (references) |
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Computing | Gun vt. [ITS, now rare: from the `:GUN' command] To forcibly terminate a program or job (computer, not career). "Some idiot left a background process running soaking up half the cycles, so I gunned it." Usage: now rare. Compare can, blammo. Source: Jargon File. |
Dream Interpretation | This is a dream of distress. Hearing the sound of a gun, denotes loss of employment, and bad management to proprietors of establishments. If you shoot a person with a gun, you will fall into dishonor. If you are shot, you will be annoyed by evil persons, and perhaps suffer an acute illness. For a woman to dream of shooting, forecasts for her a quarreling and disagreeable reputation connected with sensations. For a married woman, unhappiness through other women. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | A device inserted into an undercut to determine the direction of fall of the tree. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Pistolet servant à fixer les bandes de métal avec lesquelles on entoure les caisses en bois (caisses armées). Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Gun (Welsh gwn, a gun.) CANNONS AND RIFLES. Armstrong gun. A wrought-iron cannon, usually breech-loading, having an iron-hooped steel inner tube. Designed by Sir William Armstrong in 1854, and officially tested in 1861. Enfield rifles. Invented by Pritchett at the Enfield factory, adopted in the English army 1852, and converted into Snider breech-loaders in 1866. Gatling gun. A machine gun with parallel barrels about a central axis, each having its own lock. Capable of being loaded and of discharging 1,000 shots a minute by turning a crank. Named from the inventor, Dr. R. J. Gatling. Krupp gun. A cannon of ingot steel, made at Krupp's works, at Essen, in Prussia. Lancaster gun. A cannon having a slightly elliptical twisted bore, and a conoid (2 syl.) projectile. Named from the inventor. Minié rifle. Invented in 1849, and adopted in the English army in 1851. Named after Claude Minié, a French officer. (1810-1879.) Snider rifle. Invented by Jacob Snider. A breech-loader adopted by the British Government in 1866. Whitworth gun. An English rifled firearm of hexagonal bore, and very rapid twist. Constructed in 1857. Its competitive trial with the Armstrong gun in 1864. Named after Sir Joseph Whitworth, the inventor (1803-1887). Woolwich infant (The). A British 35-ton rifled muzzle-loading cannon, having a steel tube hooped with wrought-iron coils. Constructed in 1870. (See Brown Bess, Mitrailleuse, etc.) Gun A breech-loading gun. A gun loaded at the breech, which is then closed by a screw or wedge-block. Evening or sunset gun. A gun fired at sunset, or about 9 o'clock p.m. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A borehole in which the charge of explosive has been fired with no other effect than to blast off a small amount of material at the mouth of the borehole; also called a bootleg or John Odges. See also:blown-out shot. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | GUN. He is in the gun; he is drunk: perhaps from an allusion to a vessel called a gun, used for ale in the universities. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A gun is an aimable weapon that launches projectiles at high velocity, or a device that resembles such a weapon used for other purposes (e.g., glue gun). The term is also used for types of artillery with long barrels that fire at a relatively flat trajectory.
For handguns, long guns and historical cannons the projectile is a bullet, shot by explosives (gunpowder), but it does not contain explosives itself.
For modern artillery the projectile is a shell, containing explosives.
Technically speaking, the projectile is the weapon and the gun is the weapon platform, although with the use of bayonets and rifle butts as clubs, the double usage of the word could be forgiven.
Types of guns:
See also: airgun, assault rifle, ballistics, electroshock gun, electrothermal-chemical technology, firearm action, gun law, gun politics, gun safety, list of modern armament manufacturers, non-violence, physics of firearms, railgun, Saturday-night special, terminal ballistics, small arms, silencer.
- Handgun (Also called a pistol; a gun used for short distances, fired from the hand).
- Derringer
- "duelling" pistols
- Flintlock
- Wheellock
- Pneumatic
- Revolver
- Semi-automatic
- Single-shot
- Machine pistol
- Long gun (A gun used for longer distances, fired from the shoulder).
- Muzzleloader
- Muskets - flintlocks, wheellocks, matchlock
- Charleville musket
- Brown Bess
- Pneumatic
- Rifle
- Shotgun
- Carbine
- Semi-automatic
- Submachine gun
- Machine gun
- Artillery (A larger gun typically for battlefield use, firing larger projectiles, and often mounted on wheels or on a vehicle such as a tank, boat, or aircraft).
- Anti-aircraft
- Cannon
- Autocannon
- Gatling gun
- Howitzer
Manufacturers:
- Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Gun."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
GUN | English | Guarantor underwritten note | Finance |
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Synonyms: GunSynonyms: accelerator (n), accelerator pedal (n), artillery (n), gas (n), gas pedal (n), grease-gun (n), gunman (n), gunslinger (n), heavy weapon (n), hired gun (n), hit man (n), ordnance (n), shooter (n), throttle (n), torpedo (n), triggerman (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Regression | Arrow, gun, ballista; (arms). |
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Screenplays | I am not a gun. (The Iron Giant; writing credit: Brad Bird and Tim McCanlies, based on the novel and play 'The Iron Man' by Ted Hughes.) Do you still sleep with a gun under your pillow (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein) I thought the hardest part was that pressing need of yours to get your gun off. (Mission: Impossible II; writing credit: Bruce Geller; Ronald D. Moore) I'd get a gun. I'd fight (High Noon; writing credit: Carl Foreman) She's the one with the gun. (Double Jeopardy; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook) | |
Lyrics | You slump, bum, son of a gun, (Son Of A Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You); performing artist: Janet Jackson) So you there's no reason to point that gun at me (12 Year Old With A Gun; performing artist: The Jets) I'MMA RUN TILL I BUST MY GUN AND EMPTY THE CLIP (Come Back In One Piece; performing artist: Aaliyah) He wound up on the wrong end of a gun. ("Ramblin' Man"; performing artist: Allman Brothers Band) Friday night he pulled a gun to change the channel (Birmingham; performing artist: Amanda Marshall) | |
Clever | Sleeping on the job: The mail courier flipped out and pulled a gun, so I was playing dead to avoid getting shot. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Top Gun (2003) The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) Hired Gun (1973) Johnny Got His Gun (1971) | |
Song Titles | Son of a Gun (performing artist: Janet Jackson) Smoking Like A Ray Gun (performing artist: The John Ewing Band) | |
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 | The child is being vaccinated in both arms using a Hypospray Jet Gun. In 1980, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the global eradication of smallpox, and recommended that all countries cease vaccination. Credit: CDC. |  | Nonfatal and fatal assaultive firearm-related injury rates for males aged 15-24 years, by quarter--United States, 1993-1997. Gun, bullet, shoot, crime, criminal, murder, homicide. Credit: CDC. |
 | McCandless with Space Screw Gun. Credit: NASA. |  | In an area north of the city of Al-Basrah, Iraq, which borders Iran, a former wetland has been drained and walled off. Now littered with minefields and gun emplacements, it is a staging area for military exercises. Credit: NASA. |
 | Francis X. Popper on wreckage of Japanese gun at Manila Regimental navigator for Army amphibious engineers. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Air gun for sub-bottom profiling Able-bodied Seaman Bob Rojecki making adjustments prior to deployment Used off of the SURVEYOR. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Battleship ARIZONA gun turret at the ARIZONA Memorial. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Testing a Kilgore Rocket Line-throwing gun on the ALBATROSS IV. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | One of the MONITOR's two gun ports. Credit: Sanctuaries. |  | In: "The Meteor Expedition," by F. Spiess, German Atlantic Expedition 1925-1927. Launching meteorological balloons on the stern of the METEOR; gun practice; working on a rolling deck; air-conditioning for the crew (sleeping on deck in hammocks.) Plate 19. Library Call Number C/La S755. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| "Gun" by Jesse Braun Commentary: "Old gun for old bullets." | "Old gun" by Loretta Humble Commentary: "An old gun on the wall." |
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 | A repetitive metallic melody with ray gun style tones in background. | | Three gun shots from a distance. |
| Machine gun shooting rounds of ammunition. | | Machine gun. |
| Gun going off in the distance in an open field. | | Space gun. |
| Cocking a gun. | | A 45 caliber small machine gun or automatic weapon fire. |
| A 38 caliber gun being fired. | | Firing of a laser gun; phaser fire;. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Bill Hicks | I'll tell you, too, that's starting to depress me about UFO's, about the fact that they cross galaxies, or wherever they come from to visit us, and always end up in places like Fife, Alabama. Maybe these are not super-intelligent beings, man. Maybe they're like hillbilly aliens. Some intergalactic Joad family or something. "Don't you all want to land in New York, or L.A.?" "Nah, we just had a long trip, we gonna kick back and whittle some." Oh, my God, they're idiots. "We're gonna enter our mothership in the tractor pull!" My God, we're being invaded by rednecks. My biggest fear. Last thing I want to see is a flying saucer up on blocks in front of some trailer, you know? Wouldn't that be depressing? Some bumper sticker on it - "They'll get my ray gun when they pry my cold, dead, eighteen-fingered hand off of it." |
Daniel Boone | All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife. |
Mao Tse-tung | Every Communist must grasp the truth: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." |
Thomas Carlyle | The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A moment afterwards, placed squarely in the very middle of the street, astride of the gutter, the gun was in battery |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The second guard rested his gun butt on the ground |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I made all the sail I could, and in half an hour she spied me, then hung out her ancient, and discharged a gun. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I speak of fishing only now, for I had long felt differently about fowling, and sold my gun before I went to the woods |
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Health | One-time exposure, such as the sound of a gun firing at close range, can harm your ears permanently. (references) | |
These adolescents also take risks such as drinking and driving, carrying a gun, not wearing a helmet on a motorcycle, and abusing other illicit drugs. (references) | ||
The energy of e-beams and of x-rays is measured in the amount of energy developed by the electron gun, and is measured in electron volts (eV). The usual apparatus runs at 5 to 10 million electron volts (MeV). (references) | ||
Business | Industry sources estimate that U.S. suppliers control 45 percent of the gun market. (references) | |
Economic History | Sudan | Oil revenues have allowed the government to purchase modern weapons systems, including Hind helicopter gun ships, Anatov medium bombers, MiG 23 fighter aircraft, mobile artillery pieces, and light assault weapons. (references) |
Cayman Islands | Legend has it that Caymanians in 1788 rescued the crews of a Jamaican merchant ship convoy which had struck a reef at Gun Bay and that the Caymanians were rewarded with King George III's promise to never again impose any tax. (references) | |
Nepal | On June 1, 2001, Crown Prince Dipendra shot and killed his father, King Birendra; his mother, Queen Aishwarya; his brother; his sister, his father's younger brother, Prince Dhirendra; and several aunts, before turning the gun on himself. (references) | |
Human Rights | Dominican Republic | In response, the officer reportedly pulled out a gun and shot him. (references) |
Cote d'Ivoire | On February 1, four gendarmes searched the house of Bechio's mother and seized an old hunting gun. (references) | |
Bangladesh | On August 16, 2000, 2 ruling party factions fought a gun battle in Sylhet Division, injuring some 50 persons. (references) | |
Minorities | Croatia | In May an unknown assailant fired a machine gun at the home of an ethnic Serb returnee near Zadar; there were no injuries and no arrests. (references) |
Yugoslavia | Also in June, two men attacked two Roma from Leskovac with a gun, hitting them in the head with it. On October 4, local youths broke into a night school in Belgrade and beat several Roma students. (references) | |
Political Rights | Guinea-Bissau | A week later, Mane was killed in a gun battle with military forces. (references) |
Trade | Jordan | Imports of raw leather are restricted to the Jordan Tanning Company; crude oil and its derivatives (except metallic oils) and household gas cylinders are restricted to the Jordan Petroleum Refinery Company; cement is restricted to the Jordan Cement Factories Company; explosives and gun powder are restricted to the Jordan Phosphate Mines Company; and used tires are restricted to tire retreading factories. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
John Dingell | I don't think there's any question of it. And I think if you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats. |
Mariane Pearl | Well, the first thing I saw was the photo with their gun pointing at his head. I mean, it was alarming, but again, you know, I was focusing on trying to find him. |
Robert Novak | The White House expressed interest in exploring the proposed gun fingerprinting system, but also voiced doubts about the system's feasibility. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | The gun boats authorized by an act of the last session are so advanced that they will be ready for service in the ensuing spring. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We must strengthen our gun laws and enforce those already on the books better. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Gun" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.80% of the time. "Gun" is used about 3,487 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.8% | 3,480 | 2,791 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.14% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.06% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,487 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "gun" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Gun | Last name | 100 | 84,215 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Japan | Gun Ei Chemical Industry Co. Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "gun": a big gun ♦ Air gun ♦ antiaircraft gun ♦ Armstrong gun ♦ as sure as death gun ♦ as sure as gun ♦ assault gun ♦ automatic gun ♦ Barbette gun ♦ barrel of a gun ♦ Battery gun ♦ bb gun ♦ big gun ♦ blank gun ♦ Bofors gun ♦ bren gun ♦ Browning machine gun ♦ burp gun ♦ butt of a gun ♦ Charles gun ♦ Chase gun ♦ cocked gun ♦ cocking gun ♦ cocking of gun ♦ DNA particule gun ♦ double barelled gun ♦ double barrelled shot gun ♦ draw a gun ♦ electron gun ♦ external gun ♦ Face of a gun ♦ Fiber gun ♦ field gun ♦ fire gun ♦ flame gun ♦ flare gun ♦ flash gun ♦ fog gun ♦ Galloper gun ♦ Gardner gun ♦ gas gun ♦ gatling gun ♦ gene gun ♦ give the engine the gun ♦ glue gun ♦ grease gun ♦ Great gun ♦ gun artillery division ♦ gun artillery regiment ♦ gun barrel ♦ Gun Barrel City ♦ gun barrel city tx ♦ gun battalion ♦ gun battery ♦ gun battle ♦ gun bay ♦ gun boat ♦ gun camera ♦ gun carriage ♦ gun case ♦ gun chamber ♦ gun chassis ♦ gun control ♦ gun control law ♦ Gun cotton ♦ gun crew ♦ gun deck ♦ gun direction ♦ gun dog ♦ gun down ♦ gun emplacement ♦ gun enclosure ♦ gun fight ♦ Gun fire ♦ gun flint ♦ gun for ♦ gun for smb. ♦ gun for smth. ♦ gun harpoon ♦ gun launcher ♦ gun licence ♦ gun license ♦ Gun metal ♦ gun moll ♦ gun mount ♦ gun muzzle ♦ gun net ♦ gun park ♦ gun perforating ♦ gun pit ♦ Gun port ♦ gun powder ♦ gun rest ♦ gun room ♦ gun runner ♦ gun running ♦ gun shield ♦ gun shot ♦ gun shots ♦ gun smith ♦ gun smoke. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "gun": gun-and-olive-branch, gun-barrel, gun-battle, gun-battles, gun-bearer, gun-boat, gun-butt, gun-butts, gun-buyers, gun-camera, gun-carriages, gun-carrying, gun-conscious, gun-control, gun-cotton, gun-crazy, gun-dealers, gun-dog, gun-dogs, gun-embrasures, gun-emplacement, gun-emplacements, gun-fight, gun-fire, gun-firing, gun-flashes, gun-for-hire, gun-founder, gun-founding, gun-free, gun-hand, gun-happy, gun-holster, gun-hour, gun-hungry, gun-injection, gun-killing, gun-layer, gun-laying, gun-like, gun-lock, gun-loops, gun-maker, gun-making, gun-metal, gun-microphone, gun-mikes, gun-ownership, gun-platform, gun-play, gun-point, gun-pointer, gun-port, gun-powder, gun-rack, gun-reach, gun-rights, gun-room, gun-runner, gun-runners, gun-running, gun-shot, gun-shy, gun-sight, gun-sites, gun-slinging, gun-slits, gun-sloops, gun-smoke, gun-stick, gun-stock, gun-team, gun-teams, gun-toting, gun-towers, gun-tubes, gun-turret, gun-type weapon, gun-wielding. | |
Ending with "gun": hand-gun, machine-gun, ray-gun, shot-gun, sub-machine-gun, super-gun, swivel-gun, tommy-gun. | |
Containing "gun": have-gun-will-travel, machine-gun nest, machine-gun position. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
gun | 16,007 | gun control | 1,081 |
paintball gun | 9,332 | machine gun | 944 |
the smoking gun | 8,532 | spyder paintball gun | 849 |
airsoft gun | 4,759 | gun part | 803 |
gun n rose | 4,319 | gun accessory | 769 |
hand gun | 3,404 | water gun | 745 |
bb gun | 3,198 | toy gun | 712 |
air gun | 2,249 | gun picture | 707 |
gun rose | 2,183 | radar gun | 605 |
stun gun | 2,149 | gun show | 601 |
gun america | 1,908 | gun dog | 575 |
top gun | 1,575 | spud gun | 574 |
gun broker | 1,522 | gun.com smoking | 561 |
gun safe | 1,434 | gun and ammunition | 518 |
gun auction | 1,391 | gun lock | 506 |
potato gun | 1,331 | nail gun | 473 |
cheap paintball gun | 1,201 | gun cabinet | 400 |
air soft gun | 1,199 | spear gun | 398 |
pellet gun | 1,109 | jang dong gun | 398 |
gun for sale | 1,102 | paintball gun review | 371 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "gun"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gjahtar (chaser, Hunter, huntsman), top (ball, bolt, cannon, falconet, field gun, knob, nub, nubble, nugget, piece, soundly), shkrepje (flare, glance), revole (pistol, revolver, rod, shooter), pushkë (rifle), pistolë (pistole), person i rëndësishëm (kingpin, nibs, notability, panjandrum, sachem), bandit (bandit, brigand, gangster, gorilla, gunman, mosstrooper, outlaw, picaroon, reaver, reiver, rover, thief, thug), armë (arm, weapon, weaponry). (various references) | |
Arabic | مسدس (colt, hexagon, pistol, revolver, rod, shooter), مدفع (cannon, drake, ordnance), حث (actuate, admonish, debriefing, dub, encourage, encouragement, goad, hurry, impel, incitation, incite, induce, induce to speak, inducement, interest, motivate, motivation, motive, persuade, precipitate, press, prod, prompt, prompting, propel, provocation, provoke, push on, recommend, rouse, solicit, solicitation, spur, stimulate, stimulation, stir, tempt), سلاح ناري (firearm, piece), سرع (accelerate, career, chase, fast, force, get a move on, hasten, hurry up, hustle, lollop, pelt, pounce, push, quicken, rush, smarten, speed, speed up, step on it, throttle, trot), عصابة مسلحة, صاد ببندقية, إصطاد (entrap, go gunning for, gun for, hunt, shoot), إشارة بدأ, بندقية (rifle, shooter), بارودة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | салют (salute, salvo), човек въоръжен с пушка, топ (bundle, cannon, masthead, pack, piece, roll, rook), шприц (syringe), оръдеен, оръдие (cannon, creature, implement, instrument, pander, piece, tool), огнестрелно оръжие (firearm, shooter, shooting iron), залп (discharge, gunshot, round, volley), ловджия (gunner), пушка (piece, rifle), пулверизатор (atomizer, pulverizer, spray, sprayer, vaporizer), професионален убиец (hitman, torpedo), пистолет (air brush, equalizer, pistol, shooting iron), дросел (choke, reactor, throttle). (various references) | |
Chinese | 炮 (cannon, firecracker), 砲 (cannon), 枪, 槍 (firearm, rifle, spear). (various references) | |
Czech | zbraň, střelná zbraò (firearm), revolver (handgun, pistol, revolver), puška (rifle), pistolník, pistole (handgun, pistol), nimrod (Hunter), lovec (Hunter, huntsman), kanón (cannon, field gun), flinta, dìlo (cannon), bouchaèka (peashooter, popgun). (various references) | |
Danish | gevær (rifle), bøsse. (various references) | |
Dutch | roer (barrel, channel, handlebars, helm, pipe, rifle, rudder, Ruhr, tube), geweer (rifle). (various references) | |
Esperanto | pafilo, fusilo (rifle). (various references) | |
Faeroese | byrsa (rifle). (various references) | |
Farsi | تفنگ (Rifle), تیراندازی کردن , تلمبه دستی , توپ (Artillery, Bluff), سرنگ امپول زنی وامثال ان , ششلول . (various references) | |
Finnish | tykki (cannon), pyssy (rifle), kivääri (rifle), kanuuna (cannon), kaatokiila (gunning stick, shotgun, timber compass), ampuma-ase. (various references) | |
French | fusil, pistolet (spray gun), canon. (various references) | |
Frisian | gewear (rifle). (various references) | |
German | Kanone (cannon, equalizer, gat, hardware, rod, shooter, whiz), Gewehr (rifle, shotgun), Geschütz (piece, piece of artillery), büchse (box, caddy, can, collecting box, rifle, tin). (various references) | |
Greek | όπλο (arm, piece, rifle, shot gun, weapon), πιστόλι (pistol, rod), πυροβόλο (cannon, firearm). (various references) | |
Hebrew | להגביר מהירות (soup up, speed up, spurt, step on it), לצוד (angle, captivate, capture, catch, seize, shoot), תותח (cannon), אקדח (firearm, pistol), כלי יריה (firearm, shooter), רובה (firearm, rifle), נשק חם. (various references) | |
Hungarian | puska (cheat sheet, crib, crib notes, cribs, hand-gun, musket, popper, rifle), pisztoly (colt, firecracker, pistol, popper, roscoe), löveg (cannon, ordnance), ágyú (artillery, cannon, mechanized gun, ordnance). (various references) | |
Indonesian | senjata (rifle, weapon), senapan (rifle), bedil, bam. (various references) | |
Irish | gunna (rifle). (various references) | |
Italian | fucile (firelock, rifle), cannone (cannon), pistola (handgun, pistol). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鉄砲 , 大砲 (artillery, cannon). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たいほう (artillery, basic law, cannon), つつ (pipe, tube), ほう (Act, cannon, divide, emulate, follow, imitate, information, male phoenix bird, punishment, retribution, salary, side), ガン , てっぽう. (various references) | |
Korean | 총. (various references) | |
Malay | bedil (rifle). (various references) | |
Manx | gunn. (various references) | |
Mohawk | kahonre. (various references) | |
Norwegian | gevær (rifle). (various references) | |
Papiamen | skopèt (rifle). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ungay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | espingarda (repeater, rifle, shotgun). (various references) | |
Romanian | vâna (catch, chase, Hunt, shoot), tun (cannon), revolver (Barker, gat, pistol, revolver), pungaş (biter, cheat, Cutpurse, duffer, fraud, jockey, juggler, knave, lurcher, manipulator, mountebank, pickpocket, pilferer, prig, rascal, rogue, rook, rough, scab, shark, snap, swindler, thief), puşcã (rifle, weapon), loviturã de tun (cannon shot), insecticid pulverizat, armã de foc (fire arm, piece, shooter), armã (arms, rifle, weapon), împuşca (bag, execute, fire, pip, pistol, pop, pot, rifle, shoot). (various references) | |
Russian | ружье;пушка, револьвер (barking iron, gat, revolver), шприц (hypodermic, injector, squirt, syringe), винтовка (rifle), оружие (arm, arms, fire arm, side arm, weapon, weapons), орудие (ammunition, breech-loader, cannon, implement, instrument, tool), охотник (fowler, hunter, huntsman, montero, shikaree, shikari, tracker, trapper), пушка (cannon), пулемет (chatterbox, coffee grinder, machine gun), пистолет (pistol). (various references) | |
Scottish | gunna (a gun, cannon, rifle). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | top (cannon, piece, rook, tower), puška (piece, rifle, shotgun), plotun (salvo, volley). (various references) | |
Spanish | escopeta (rifle, shotgun), pistola (Barker, blowgun, handgun, paint spray, pistol, pistole), fusil (carabine, carbine, carbineer, Fusil, rifle), arma de fuego (firearm, shooter). (various references) | |
Sranan | gon (rifle). (various references) | |
Swedish | gevär (firearm, rifle, rifles, shotgun), revolver (iron, revolver, shooting iron), kanon (cannon, Canon, round), bössa (moneybox, rifle). (various references) | |
Tagalog | baríl (rifle). (various references) | |
Thai | ยิง (fire), ปืน. (various references) | |
Turkish | top (ball, bolt, bowl, cannon, fagot, fairy, globe, knob, pellet, pill, poof, pouf, pouffe, queen, rifle, roll), tüfek (Fusil, piece, rifle). (various references) | |
Turkmen | pistolяet (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рушниця, гармата (cannon, muzzle loader), воювати, вогнепальна зброя (fire arm, shooter), обстрілювати (fusillade, plonk, pound, punish, shell, shoot up, strafe). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | súng liên thanh liuit (lewis gun), súng hơi (steam gun), súng breen (bren, bren gun), súng đại bác quay được (swivel gun). (various references) | |
Welsh | gwn, magnel (artillery, cannon), dryll (part, piece, rifle), cyflegr (battery, cannon). (various references) | |
Xhosa | mbayimbayi (A big gun). (various references) | |
