Firearm

English

Noun

Firearm (plural Firearms)

1. A personal weapon that uses explosive powder to propel a metal (usually lead) projectile.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:firearm

Thesaurus

automatic, blowgun, blowpipe, flamethrower, gat, gun, handgun, heater, musket, peashooter, piece, pistol, repeater, revolver, rifle, rod, sawed-off shotgun, shooting iron, shotgun, six-gun, six-shooter

Pronunciation

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Etymology

fire + arm

Translations

personal weapon

Basque: su-arma (eu) Breton: arm-tan m. Catalan: arma de foc (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: trad. 火器, simpl. 火器 (huǒqì) Danish: ildvåben (da) n. (litterary, but old-fashioned); skydevåben (da) n. Dutch: vuurwapen (nl) n. Esperanto: pafilo (eo) Finnish: tuliase (fi) French: arme à feu (fr) f. German: Schusswaffe (de) f., Feuerwaffe (de) f. Greek: πυροβόλο όπλο (el) (pyrovólo óplo) n. Hungarian: tűzfegyver (hu), lőfegyver (hu)

Icelandic: skotvopn (is) n. Ido: pafarmo (io) Italian: arma da fuoco (it) f. Maori: pū, kōpere tupua Persian: تفنگ (tofang), اسلحه گرم (aslahe garm) Polish: broń palna f. Portuguese: arma de fogo f. Romanian: armă de foc (ro) f. Spanish: arma de fuego (es) f. Swedish: skjutvapen (sv) n., eldvapen (sv) n. Volapük: filavaf (vo) West Frisian: sjitark n., fjoerwapen n.

See also

See also

airgun blunderbuss handgun pistol

rifle gun shotgun submachine gun