маузер

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Russian

Etymology

Named after the original designers Wilhelm and Paul Mauser.

Pronunciation

Noun

ма́узер (máuzer, maúzɛrm inan (genitive ма́узера, nominative plural ма́узеры, genitive plural ма́узеров)

  1. Mauser (firearm)
    • 1924, Михаил Булгаков [Mikhail Bulgakov], “XI. Парфорсное кино и бездна”, in Дьяволиада; English translation from K. M. Cook-Horujy, transl., Diaboliad, Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1990:
      — Тебе́, дя́денька, лу́чше всего́ на са́мый верх, где билья́рдные, — посове́товал мальчи́шка, — там на кры́ше отсиди́шься, е́сли с ма́узером.
      — Tebé, djádenʹka, lúčše vsevó na sámyj verx, gde bilʹjárdnyje, — posovétoval malʹčíška, — tam na krýše otsidíšʹsja, jésli s máuzerom.
      "You'd better go right to the top, mister, where the billiard tables are," the boy advised him. "You can sit it out on the roof, if you've got a Mauser."

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