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English
Etymology
fire (“projectile discharge”) + arm (“weapon”).
Pronunciation
Noun
firearm (plural firearms)
- A personal weapon that uses explosive powder to propel a projectile often made of lead.
David was arrested for illegal possession of firearms.
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Translations
personal weapon
- Afrikaans: vuurwapen
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: سِلَاح نَارِيّ m (silāḥ nāriyy)
- Armenian: հրազեն (hy) (hrazen)
- Assamese: please add this translation if you can
- Asturian: arma de fueu f
- Azerbaijani: odlu silah
- Bashkir: атыу ҡоралы (atıw qoralı)
- Basque: su-arma
- Belarusian: агнястрэ́льная збро́я f (ahnjastrélʹnaja zbrója)
- Bengali: আগ্নেয়াস্ত্র (bn) (agneẏastro)
- Breton: arm-tan (br) m
- Bulgarian: огнестре́лно оръ́жие n (ognestrélno orǎ́žie)
- Catalan: arma de foc f
- Chechen: долу герз (dolu gerz)
- Chinese:
- Dungan: чёнпо (či͡onpo)
- Mandarin: 火器 (zh) (huǒqì), 槍械／枪械 (zh) (qiāngxiè), (archaic) 火槍／火枪 (zh) (huǒqiāng), 槍炮／枪炮 (zh) (qiāngpào)
- Czech: palná zbraň f
- Danish: ildvåben n (literary, but old-fashioned), skydevåben (da) n
- Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: vuurwapen (nl) n
- Esperanto: pafilo (eo), pafarmilo
- Estonian: tulirelv (et)
- Faroese: skotvápn
- Finnish: tuliase (fi)
- French: arme à feu (fr) f, flingue (fr) m (colloquial)
- Galician: arma de fogo f
- Georgian: ცეცხლსასროლი იარაღი (cecxlsasroli iaraɣi)
- German: Schusswaffe (de) f, Feuerwaffe (de) f, Feuerarm m
- Greek: πυροβόλο όπλο n (pyrovólo óplo)
- Hausa: bindiga (ha)
- Hebrew: נֶשֶׁק חַם (he) m (neshek ham)
- Hindi: अग्निशस्त्र m (agniśastra)
- Hungarian: tűzfegyver (hu), lőfegyver (hu)
- Icelandic: skotvopn (is) n
- Ido: pafarmo (io), pafilo (io)
- Indonesian: senjata api (id)
- Irish: arm tine m
- Italian: arma da fuoco (it) f
- Japanese: 火器 (ja) (かき, kaki), ファイアアーム (faiaāmu)
- Kazakh: оқатар қару (oqatar qaru)
- Khmer: កាំភ្លើង (km) (kampləəng)
- Korean: 화기(火器) (hwagi)
- Kyrgyz: атылма курал (atılma kural)
- Lao: ອາວຸດປືນ (ʼā wut pư̄n), ປືນ (lo) (pư̄n)
- Latin: arma ignifera n pl, sclopetum (la) n (New)
- Latvian: šaujamierocis m
- Lithuanian: šaunamasis ginklas m
- Luxembourgish: Feierwaff
- Macedonian: огнено оружје n (ogneno oružje)
- Malay: senjata api (ms)
- Maori: pū, kōpere tupua
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: галт зэвсэг (galt zevseg), буу (mn) (buu)
- Nepali: शस्त्र (śastra), गोली गठ्ठा (golī gaṭhṭhā)
- Ngazidja Comorian: mzinga class 3/4
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: skytevåpen (no) n
- Nynorsk: skytevåpen n, skjotevåpen n
- Occitan: arma de fuòc (oc) f
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: سِلاحِ گَرْم (selâh-e garm), اَسْلَحِهٔ گَرْم (aslahe-ye garm), تُفَنْگ (fa) (tofang)
- Plautdietsch: Scheetjewäa n
- Polish: broń palna (pl) f, giwera (pl) f
- Portuguese: arma de fogo (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਆਤਸ਼ੀ ਅਸਲਾ (ātaśī asalā)
- Quechua: t'uqyachina ayñi
- Romanian: armă de foc (ro) f
- Russian: огнестре́льное ору́жие (ru) n (ognestrélʹnoje orúžije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ватрено оружје n
- Roman: vatreno oružje n
- Slovak: palná zbraň f
- Slovene: ognjeno orožje n
- Spanish: arma de fuego (es) f
- Swahili: silaha ya moto
- Swedish: skjutvapen (sv) n, eldvapen (sv) n
- Sylheti: please add this translation if you can
- Tagalog: sandatang pumuputok
- Tajik: аслиҳаи оташфишон (aslihayi otašfišon)
- Tamil: சுடுகலன் (ta) (cuṭukalaṉ)
- Telugu: తుపాకి (te) (tupāki)
- Tetum: kilat
- Thai: ปืน (th) (bpʉʉn), ปืนไฟ (bpʉʉn-fai), อาวุธปืน (aa-wút-bpʉʉn)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: ateşli silah (tr)
- Ukrainian: вогнепа́льна збро́я f (vohnepálʹna zbrója)
- Urdu: آتِشی اَسْلِحَہ f pl (ātiśī asliha)
- Uzbek: oʻtochar qurol, otish quroli
- Vietnamese: hoả khí (vi), vũ khí nóng
- Volapük: filavaf (vo)
- Welsh: arf tân m, arf tanio m
- West Frisian: sjitark n, fjoerwapen n
- Western Panjabi: آتشیں اسلحہ
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