箭

→ Vietnamese: tên

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ʔslens): semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 前 (OC *zleːn).

Han compound

(archery, weaponry) arrow (Classifier: 支 m c mn)


ABC

weapon of mass destruction
weapon of mass destruction

(weaponry) Initialism of atomic, biological and chemical: the three main categories of weapon of mass destruction.


ABC

From Middle High German a. b. c., abecē; equivalent to A + B + C, the first three letters of the Latin and German alphabet.

Es gab dann immer einen Sirenenalarm im Camp und wir mussten unter ABC-Vollschutz (ABC: atomar, biologisch, chemisch) versuchen, in irgendeinen Bunker zu laufen.

2009, Christian Bernhardt, “Noch einmal ganz von vorne anfangen”, in Leah Wizelman, editor, Wenn der Krieg nicht endet. Schicksale von traumatisierten Soldaten und ihren Angehörigen, →ISBN, page 142:

Then there was always a siren alarm in camp and we had to run into a bunker wearing NBC protection (NBC: nuclear, biological, chemical).

In Abhängigkeit von der Art, den Eigenschaften und der Menge des freigewordenen ABC-Gefahrstoffes sind unterschiedliche taktische Einheiten zur Gefahrenabwehr erforderlich.

2013, Grundlagen des ABC-Einsatzes (Fachwissen Feuerwehr), 3rd edition, →ISBN, page 11:

Various tactical units are required for security depending on the type, characteristics and quantity of the hazardous NBC substance that has been released.

Das kann bis zu einem ABC-Krieg reichen.

2022, Rainer Uhlmann, Ukraine-Krieg. Tagebuch eines Fragenden, →ISBN, page 203:

(weaponry) Initialism of atomar, biologisch und chemisch: NBC


ABC

The first letter of each term; atom, biologisk and kjemisk, borrowed from English atomic, biological and chemical.

weapons of mass destruction
weapon of mass destruction

(weaponry) Initialism of atom-, biologisk and kjemisk: ("atomic, biological and chemical") the three main categories of weapons of mass destruction.


羽

From Old Japanese.
May be cognate with 葉 (ha, “leaf”).

(archery) when a bow is strung, the distance between the grip and the serving (nocking point) on the bowstring


wapen

head

wapen (plural wapens, diminutive wapentjie)

From Dutch wapen, from Middle Dutch wâpen, from Old Dutch wāpan, from Proto-West Germanic *wāpn, from Proto-Germanic *wēpną.


tank

→ Afrikaans: tenk

→ Albanian: tank

→ Assamese: টেংকি (teṅki)

→ Asturian: tanque

→ Azerbaijani: tank

→ Bashkir: танк (tank)

→ Belarusian: танк (tank)

→ Bengali: ট্যাংক (ṭêṅko)

→ Burmese: တင့်ကား (tang.ka:)

→ Buryat: танк (tank)

→ Catalan: tanc

→ Chechen: танк (tank)

→ Chinese:

Mandarin: 坦克 (tǎnkè)

→ Chuvash: танк (tank)

→ Czech: tank

→ Danish: tank

→ Dutch: tank

→ Dzongkha: ཏེངཀ (tengk)

→ Eastern Mari: танк (tank)

→ Estonian: tank

→ Fiji Hindi: tanki

→ Finnish: tankki

→ French: tank

→ Galician: tanque

→ Georgian: ტანკი (ṭanḳi)

→ German: Tank

→ Greek: τανκ (tank)

→ Greenlandic: tanki

→ Hebrew: טנק (tank)

desctree

→ Hindi: टंकी (ṭaṅkī)
→ Burmese: တိုင်ကီ (tuingki)

→ Indonesian: tank

→ Italian: tank, tanca

→ Japanese: タンク (tanku)

→ Kazakh: танк (tank)

→ Korean: 탱크 (taengkeu)

→ Kumyk: танк (tank)

→ Kyrgyz: танк (tank)

→ Latvian: tanks

→ Lezgi: танк (tank)

→ Lithuanian: tankas

→ Macedonian: тенк (tenk)

→ Malay: tank

→ Maori: taika

→ Norwegian: tank, tanks

→ Ossetian: танк (tank)

→ Persian: تانک (tânk)

desc

→ Portuguese: tanque (“armored vehicle”)

→ Quechua: tanki

→ Romanian: tanc

→ Romansch: tanc

desctree

→ Russian: танк (tank), танкъ (tank) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
→ Armenian: տանկ (tank)
→ Kazakh: танк (tank)
→ Mongolian: танк (tank)

→ Carpathian Rusyn: танк (tank)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: тенк

Latin script: tenk

→ Sidamo: tanke

→ Slovak: tank

→ Slovene: tank

→ Swahili: tangi

→ Tajik: танк (tank), тонк (tonk)

→ Tamil: தாங்கி (tāṅki)

→ Tatar: танк (tank)

→ Tokelauan: tane

→ Turkish: tank

→ Turkmen: tank

→ Ukrainian: танк (tank)

→ Upper Sorbian: tank

→ Urdu: ٹینک (ṭaink)

→ Uzbek: tank

→ Vietnamese: xe tăng

→ Walloon: tank

→ Welsh: tanc

→ Yakut: тааҥка (taañka)

→ Yiddish: טאַנק (tank)

From Portuguese tanque (“tank, liquid container”), from an Indo-Aryan language such as Gujarati ટાંકી (ṭā̃kī, “cistern”) or Marathi टांकी (ṭāṅkī). Compare the Arabic verb اِسْتَنْقَعَ (istanqaʕa, “to become stagnant, to stagnate”).
In the sense of armoured vehicle, first attested in 1915, prototypes were described as tanks for carrying water to disguise their nature as well as due to physical resemblance.

der

The journalist mistook the self-propelled artillery vehicle for a tank.

Few remember the female tanks that were produced between the World Wars.

Tank beats everything! Oh, man! I could do this all day!

2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Ark:

armoured fighting vehicle
armoured fighting vehicle

An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun designed for direct fire, and moving on caterpillar tracks.

chidí naaʼnaʼí beeʼeldǫǫh bikááʼ dah naaznilígíí


download

en-verb

download (third-person singular simple present downloads, present participle downloading, simple past and past participle downloaded)

downloads (present singular third-person)
downloading (participle present)
downloaded (participle past)
downloaded (past)

→ Danish: downloade

→ Dutch: downloaden

→ German: downloaden; herunterladen (calque)

desc

→ Lao: ດາວໂຫຼດ (dāo lōt)

→ Lao: ດາວໂຫຼດ (dāo lōt)

→ Malay: muat turun (calque)

→ Maltese: ddawnlowdja

→ Thai: ดาวน์โหลด (daao-lòot)

Download
Scientific American
Times Record News

From down- + load. Verbal form first appears c. 1962 in the Wichita Falls (Texas) Times. Nominal form first appears c. 1977 in Scientific American.

(transitive, firearms) To load a gun (especially a muzzle-loader) with less propellant than its designed load.


NBC

Bailey told CNN that he only spoke with [Arthur] Engoron about his September summary judgment decision “because that’s the only thing I discussed with reporters.” NBC said it stood by its story.

2024 July 25, Kara Scannell, “Judge who ordered Trump to pay $454 million says he was ‘accosted’ by lawyer and won’t recuse himself from case”, in CNN:

Initialism of National Broadcasting Company: U.S. television and radio network.

(historical) Abbreviation of National Biscuit Company: U.S. food company, now Nabisco.


NBC

biological weapon
biological weapon#English

(weaponry) Abbreviation of nuclear weapon, biological weapon and chemical weapon.


NBC

(weaponry) Abbreviation of nuclear, biological, chemical.


NBC

(weaponry) Initialism of nucléaire, bactériologique, chimique.: NBC (“nuclear, biological, chemical”)


釦

(archery) metal loop at the nock point of a bow string


釵

From Middle Chinese 釵 (MC tsrhea). Compare modern Mandarin 釵／钗 (chāi, “hairpin; sai (weapon)”).
This character was originally used in Japanese to mean (ornamental) hairpin, and was read with a kun'yomi of kanzashi. The similarity in shape between a hairpin and the weapon called a sai later led to this character being used to refer to the weapon. In modern Japanese, this character is read primarily with its on'yomi of sai, and is used to refer to the weapon. The hairpin sense and kanzashi reading are more often spelled 簪.

(weaponry) a sai: a short blunt weapon with a wide guard, used mainly for defense against opponents armed with swords


鈹

(historical) a kind of ancient weapon (a double-edged sword, mounted on a long stick to use for close combat like a long spear during the pre-Qin era)


AAA

en-noun

AAA (countable and uncountable, plural AAAs)

(military) Initialism of anti-aircraft artillery.


鉞

鉞 (canonical)
etsu (romanization)
wetu (romanization)
ゑつ (hiragana historical)

(historical) an ancient Chinese bronze battle-axe


rd

(knitting, firearms) Abbreviation of round.


銃

銃 (canonical)
jū (romanization)
zyuu (romanization)
じゆう (hiragana historical)

銃を撃つ


銃

捧げ銃

1898, Doppo Kunikida, Shikagari [Hunting Deer]:

Before I knew it, it was noon, and yet nothing even resembling a deer revealed itself. We quickly crossed a valley and then, just beyond the mountaintop, on the other side, I thought I heard the sound of a gunshot, and that was when I saw the white smoke.

かれこれするうちに昼時分になったが鹿らしいものも来ない、たちまち谷を一つ越えたすぐむこうの山の尾で銃の音がしたと思うと白い煙が見えた。

Karekore suru uchi ni hirujibun ni natta ga shika rashii mono mo konai, tachimachi tani o hitotsu koeta sugu mukō no yama no o de tsutsu no oto ga shita to omou to shiroi kemu ga mieta.


鎌

Kyūjitai Man'yōshū Shinjitai Sickle ja:鎌

From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.

鎌槍: a kind of polearm with a sickle-shaped blade

to get things sorted quickly and efficiently

to apply the sickle; compare English to glean

鎌を掛ける: → to get something out of a person without them being aware

Short for 火打鎌 (hiuchigama, “a striker for lighting fires”). (from the way that pieces of a broken kama blade were used for this purpose)

火打鎌

(slang) a perverse or bent tendency or way of thinking (from the way a kama blade bends)

(slang) a person with a perverse or bent tendency or way of thinking

(woodworking) Short for 鎌継 (kamatsugi, “hammer-headed tenon”). (from the way the sickle blade sticks out perpendicular to the handle, similar to the sides of the hammer head on this kind of tenon)

鎌継

(slang) a penis (probably from the way that a sickle blade sticks out perpendicular to the handle)


li

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *lii, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-liy. Cognate to Burmese လေး (le:, “bow”) and S'gaw Karen ချံၣ် (khleè, “bow”).


雷

Ancient simplification of 靁, which was a phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ruːl): semantic 雨 (“rain”) + phonetic 畾 (OC *ruːl).
The Northern Min initial s- may be due to the loss of a pre-initial which might have been a velar considering dialect forms in Henan, Hebei and Shanxi, e.g. Taiyuan Jin 忽雷 (hueh4 lui1) (Schuessler, 2007).
Perhaps from Sino-Tibetan. Compare Mizo râwl (“voice; cry (of an animal); sound”), Tibetan ཁྲོལ (khrol).
;"spoiler"
; "loyalty"

cog

畾
𡈶
𩇓
𤴐
𩂩
𤳳
䨓
𩄣
靁
㗊
𤴑

魚雷／鱼雷

手雷

雷區／雷区 ― léiqū ― minefield

排雷 ― páiléi ― to demine

(military, weaponry, in compounds) explosive device; mine


靫

靫 (canonical)
utsubo (romanization)
うつお (alternative hiragana)
utsuo (Rōmaji)
うつほ (hiragana historical)


鞭

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *pen): semantic 革 (“leather”) + phonetic 便 (OC *ben, *bens).

Han compound

鋼鞭

钢鞭

(historical) an ancient type of weapon, segmented and made of iron


ga

head

ga m (genitive singular ga or gaoi, nominative plural gathanna or gaoi or gaoithe)

ga (genitive singular)
gaoi (genitive singular)
gathanna (nominative plural)
gaoi (nominative plural)
gaoithe (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
ga (indefinite singular)
gathanna (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a gha (indefinite singular)
a ghathanna (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an ga (definite singular)
na gathanna (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an gha (definite singular)
na ngathanna (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an nga (definite singular)
don gha (definite singular)
leis na gathanna (definite plural)
ga
gha
nga

Apparently a conflation of Old Irish gath, goth (“spear”) with the synonymous gae (“spear”), from Proto-Celtic *gaisos (“spear”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰays- (“spear”). Cognate with Welsh gwayw and Latin gaesum (a Gaulish loanword) as well as Old English gār.

spear (long stick with a sharp tip), dart

Chuir an cat a gha ann.


bolt

→ Irish: bolta

→ Japanese: ボルト (boruto)

→ Maltese: bolt

desctree

→ Russian: болт (bolt)
→ Azerbaijani: bolt
→ Ingrian: boltta

→ Scottish Gaelic: bolta

From Middle English bolt, from Old English bolt, from Proto-West Germanic *bolt, from Proto-Germanic *bultaz, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeld- (“to knock, strike”). Compare Lithuanian beldu (“I knock”), baldas (“pole for striking”). Akin to Dutch and West Frisian bout, German Bolz or Bolzen, Danish bolt, Swedish bult, Icelandic bolti.

der

A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.


tool

English: tool

Scots: tuil

From Old English tōl, from Proto-Germanic *tōlą.

(rare) A device used for torturing or interrogration.


baba

pl-noun

baba f (diminutive babka or babcia, augmentative babsko or babisko)

babka (diminutive)
babcia (diminutive)
babsko (augmentative)
babisko (augmentative)
baba (nominative singular)
baby (nominative plural)
baby (genitive singular)
bab (genitive plural)
babie (dative singular)
babom (dative plural)
babę (accusative singular)
baby (accusative plural)
babą (instrumental singular)
babami (instrumental plural)
babie (locative singular)
babach (locative plural)
babo (singular vocative)
baby (plural vocative)

nie miała baba kłopotu, kupiła sobie prosię

Garrulus glandarius
Garrulus glandarius#Translingual

(obsolete, hunting) Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius)


bill

→ Swahili: bili

→ Thai: บิล (bin)

→ Tokelauan: pili

→ Jamaican Creole: bills

From Middle English bille, from Anglo-Norman bille, from Old French bulle, from Medieval Latin bulla (“seal", "sealed document”). Compare bull.

der

l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand

Ay, and Rato-lorum too; and a gentleman born, Master Parson; who writes himself Armigero, in any bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation, Armigero.

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], line 8:

A writing that binds the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document; a bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.


launce

English: lance, launce

Scots: lance

From Old French lance, from Latin lancea.


secure

securi (plural)
secure (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
securea (accusative definite nominative singular)
securi (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
securile (accusative definite nominative plural)
securi (indefinite singular)
securii (definite singular)
securilor (definite plural)
secure (singular vocative)
secureo (singular vocative)
securilor (vocative)

Inherited from Latin secūris, secūrem. Compare Italian scure.


minion

en-noun

minion (countable and uncountable, plural minions)

1490, from Middle French mignon (“lover, royal favourite, darling”), from Old French mignon (“dainty, pleasing, gentle, kind”), from Frankish *minnju (“love, friendship, affection, memory”), from Proto-Germanic *minþijō, *mindijō (“affectionate thought, care”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Doublet of mignon.

der

Gun. My Cannons rung like Bells. Here's to my Mistress, The dainty sweet brass Minion: split their Fore-mast, She never fail'd.

1647, Francis Beaumont, Philip Massinger, The Double Marriage (play), published 1717, page 19:

(obsolete) An ancient form of ordnance with a calibre of about three inches.


bow

From Middle English bowe, from Old English boga, Proto-West Germanic *bogō, from Proto-Germanic *bugô.
Cognate with West Frisian boge, Dutch boog, German Bogen, Swedish båge.

strykstok

rod used for playing stringed instruments

(archery) A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.

A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the ends, most often played by plucking.

A type of knot with two loops, used to tie together two cords such as shoelaces or apron strings, and frequently used as decoration, such as in gift-wrapping.


arrow

From Middle English arwe, from Old English earh (oblique form ēarw-), from Proto-West Germanic *arhu, from Proto-Germanic *arhwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érkʷo- (“bow, arrow”). Cognate with Faroese ørv (“arrow”), Icelandic ör (“arrow”), örvar (“arrows”), Gothic 𐌰𐍂𐍈𐌰𐌶𐌽𐌰 (arƕazna, “dart”), Latin arcus (“bow”).

The Citizens in their rage, imagining that euery poſt in the Churche had bin one of yᵉ Souldyers, ſhot habbe or nabbe at randon^([sic – meaning random]) uppe to the Roode lofte, and to the Chancell, leauing ſome of theyr arrowes ſticking in the Images.

1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “[The Historie of Irelande […].] The Thirde Booke of the Historie of Ireland, Comprising the Raigne of Henry the Eyght: ….”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC, pages 77–78, column 2:

Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.

1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:

A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow.

střela f (dated, now means "projectile")

strela f (dated, now means "projectile")


arrow

en-verb

arrow (third-person singular simple present arrows, present participle arrowing, simple past and past participle arrowed)

arrows (present singular third-person)
arrowing (participle present)
arrowed (participle past)
arrowed (past)

Jermain Defoe dinked in an equaliser and Gareth Bale hit the crossbar for the hosts before Elliott Bennett arrowed in Norwich's winner.

2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport:

(transitive) To let fly swiftly and directly.

Arrow left until you reach the start of the text you want to delete.

(computing, intransitive) To navigate using the arrow keys.


fireball

/ˈfaɪəɹˌbɔl/

Chelyabinsk meteor
Nevada Test Site
Operation Upshot–Knothole

The noun is derived from fire (noun) + ball (noun). The adjective and verb are derived from the noun.

tulipallo

bag or ball filled with combustible material; (heraldry) charge depicting a disc-shaped bombshell

[T]he ſlingers and archers together, vvith others alſo tumbling dovvne huge ſtones, vvith firebrands and fireballs, ſet them further off.

1609, Ammianus Marcellinus, “[The XXIIII. Booke.] Chapter VII. The Most Strong Assault of the Said Citie. The Painefull Toyle, Industrie, and Fortitude, as well of the Besiegers as Besieged. At Length by Undermining the Walls are Overthrowne..”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Roman Historie, […], London: […] Adam Jslip, →OCLC, pages 249–250:

(weaponry, historical) A bag or ball filled with combustible material which is thrown as a weapon or to set something alight.

(heraldry) A charge depicting a disc-shaped bombshell with flames emitted from the top, or sometimes from the top, bottom, and on either side.

[T]here vvas ſuch a Tempeſt & thunder vvith great firebals of lightning, that the vault of the church brake, and halfe the Chancell vvas carried avvay.

1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 26, page 616, column 1:

It is an obſervation of Seamen, That if a ſingle meteor or fireball falls on their maſt, it portends ill luck; but if tvvo come together (vvhich they count Caſtor and Pollux) they preſage good ſucceſſe: […]

1642, Thomas Fuller, “The Good Wife”, in The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC, book I, paragraph 2, page 2:

An emanation of St. Elmo's fire; also (later), of ball lightning.


side

head

side f (genitive singular sidey, plural sideyn)

sidey (genitive singular)
sideyn (plural)
side
hide
after "yn"
tide

From Old Irish saiget, from Latin sagitta.


switch

→ Gulf Arabic: سويچ (swīč)

→ German: Switch

Perhaps from Middle Dutch swijch (“twig”), first attested in c. 1592. The mechanical device for altering the direction of something sense is first attested in c. 1797, pertaining to pivoted rails on minecart railways, which were once wooden.

камута́тар

system allowing the interconnection of telephone lines

(firearms, slang) Synonym of Glock switch.

(slang, metonymically) A Glock pistol equipped with a Glock switch.


grapeshot

en-noun

grapeshot (usually uncountable, plural grapeshot or grapeshots)

From grape + shot, named for the resemblance of the bag of shot to a bunch of grapes.

(historical) A cluster of small iron balls, put together in a canvas bag in order to be used as a charge for a cannon.


longbow

A large bow that has a strong tension, and is usually more than 3 feet tall. The most famous longbows in history were the English longbows, which were crafted of yew.


belt

→ Afrikaans: belt

→ Assamese: বেল্ট (belto)

→ Bengali: বেল্ট (belṭo)

→ Dutch: belt

→ Hindi: बेल्ट (belṭ)

→ Irish: beilt

→ Japanese: ベルト (beruto)

→ Odia: ବେଲ୍ଟ୍ (belṭ)

→ Urdu: بیلٹ (belṭ)

→ Welsh: belt

From Middle English belt, from Old English belt (“belt, girdle”), from Proto-West Germanic *baltī̆, from Proto-Germanic *baltijaz (“girdle, belt”), from Latin balteus (“belt, sword-belt”), of Etruscan origin. Cognate with Scots belt (“belt”), Dutch belt, German Balz (“belt”), Danish bælte (“belt”), Swedish bälte (“belt, cincture, girdle, zone”) and Icelandic belti (“belt”).

cog

(weaponry) A device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon.


shanghai

From Scottish shangan, from Scottish Gaelic seangan, influenced by the Chinese city.

Turn, turn thy shang~hay dread aside,
Nor touch that little bird

They scrounged around the camp […] and held out their filthy wings to the feeble sun, making themselves an easy target for Charles's shanghai.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 206:

However, certain objects are excluded from being treated as a gun. These include a longbow, crossbow, slingshot or shanghai even though it is capable of propelling a projectile by means of an explosive force.

2020, Parliament of Singapore, “Guns, Explosives and Weapons Control Bill”, in Republic of Singapore Government Gazette, page 161:

(Australia, New Zealand) Synonym of slingshot.


nuclear

en-noun

nuclear (countable and uncountable, plural nuclears)

From Latin nū̆cleus, a contraction of the adjective nuculeus, masculine of feminine nuculea (“pertaining to a small nut”) from nucula + adjectival suffix -eus, -ea, -eum. The Latin nucula + -āris adds up to nuculāris, a term that in English becomes nucular; the Latin nuculea + -āris, becomes Latin nuculeāris (“relative to what pertains to small nut”), later contracted into nuclear. By surface analysis, nucle(us) + -ar = nucle- + -ar. Compare muscle and Latin mūsculus; muscular and mūsculāris.

cog

The growth in wind capacity at first lagged behind the expansion of nuclear installations, but then it started to grow faster and is now outpacing nuclear.

2015, Vital Signs Volume 22: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future, The Worldwatch Institute:


nuclear

ro-adj

nuclear m or n (feminine singular nucleară, masculine plural nucleari, feminine and neuter plural nucleare)

nucleară (feminine singular)
nucleari (masculine plural)
nucleare (feminine neuter plural)
nuclear (indefinite masculine neuter singular)
nucleară (feminine indefinite singular)
nucleari (indefinite masculine singular)
nucleare (feminine indefinite neuter plural)
nuclearul (definite masculine neuter singular)
nucleara (definite feminine singular)
nuclearii (definite masculine singular)
nuclearele (definite feminine neuter plural)
nucleare (feminine indefinite singular)
nuclearului (definite masculine neuter singular)
nuclearei (definite feminine singular)
nuclearilor (definite masculine singular)
nuclearelor (definite feminine neuter plural)

Borrowed from French nucléaire. By surface analysis, nucleu + -ar.


nuclear

es-adj

nuclear m or f (masculine and feminine plural nucleares)

From nucleo + -ar, ultimately from Latin nuculeus.


tap

en-noun

tap (countable and uncountable, plural taps)

The verb is derived from Middle English tappen, teppen (“to give (something) a knock or tap; to hit (something) lightly, pat, tap”), either:
* imitative of the making of a tapping sound; or
* from Old French tapper, taper (“to tap”) (modern French taper), from Frankish *tappōn, *dabbōn (“to strike”), or from Middle Low German tappen, tapen (“to rap, strike, tap”), both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dab- (“to strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰebʰ- (“to beat, strike; to stun; to be speechless”). Doublet of dab.
Verb sense 1.1.1 (“to arrest (someone)”) and sense 1.6 (“to choose or designate (someone) for a duty, etc.”) allude to a police officer or other person tapping someone on their shoulder to catch their attention or to select them.
The noun is derived from Middle English tap, tappe (“light blow or hit”), and then either:
* from Middle English tappen (verb) (see above); or
* from Old French tape (“light slap or touch, pat”) (modern French tape), from tapper, taper (verb) (see above).
Cognates
* German tappen (“to fumble; to grope”)
* Icelandic tappa, tapsa, tæpta (“to tap”)

der

(firearms, slang) A shot fired from a firearm.


primary

/ˈpɹaɪˌmɛɹi/

Borrowed from Latin prīmārius (“of the first (rank); chief, principal; excellent”), from prīmus (first; whence the English adjective prime) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French primaire, primer, and premier. Doublet of premier.

bor

thermonuclear weapon
thermonuclear weapon

(military) The first stage of a thermonuclear weapon, which sets off a fission explosion to help trigger a fusion reaction in the weapon's secondary stage.


destino

la-verb

dēstinō (present infinitive dēstināre, perfect active dēstināvī, supine dēstinātum); first conjugation

dēstinō (canonical)
dēstināre (infinitive present)
dēstināvī (active perfect)
dēstinātum (supine)
dēstinō (active first-person indicative present singular)
dēstinās (active indicative present second-person singular)
dēstinat (active indicative present singular third-person)
dēstināmus (active first-person indicative plural present)
dēstinātis (active indicative plural present second-person)
dēstinant (active indicative plural present third-person)
dēstinābam (active first-person imperfect indicative singular)
dēstinābās (active imperfect indicative second-person singular)
dēstinābat (active imperfect indicative singular third-person)
dēstinābāmus (active first-person imperfect indicative plural)
dēstinābātis (active imperfect indicative plural second-person)
dēstinābant (active imperfect indicative plural third-person)
dēstinābō (active first-person future indicative singular)
dēstinābis (active future indicative second-person singular)
dēstinābit (active future indicative singular third-person)
dēstinābimus (active first-person future indicative plural)
dēstinābitis (active future indicative plural second-person)
dēstinābunt (active future indicative plural third-person)
dēstināvī (active first-person indicative perfect singular)
dēstināvistī (active indicative perfect second-person singular)
dēstināstī (active indicative perfect second-person singular)
dēstināvit (active indicative perfect singular third-person)
dēstināt (active indicative perfect singular third-person)
dēstināvimus (active first-person indicative perfect plural)
dēstināmus (active first-person indicative perfect plural)
dēstināvistis (active indicative perfect plural second-person)
dēstināstis (active indicative perfect plural second-person)
dēstināvērunt (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
dēstinārunt (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
dēstināvēre (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
dēstināveram (active first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
dēstināram (active first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
dēstināverās (active indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
dēstinārās (active indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
dēstināverat (active indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
dēstinārat (active indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
dēstināverāmus (active first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
dēstinārāmus (active first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
dēstināverātis (active indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
dēstinārātis (active indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
dēstināverant (active indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
dēstinārant (active indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
dēstināverō (active first-person future indicative perfect singular)
dēstinārō (active first-person future indicative perfect singular)
dēstināveris (active future indicative perfect second-person singular)
dēstināris (active future indicative perfect second-person singular)
dēstināverit (active future indicative perfect singular third-person)
dēstinārit (active future indicative perfect singular third-person)
dēstināverimus (active first-person future indicative perfect plural)
dēstinārimus (active first-person future indicative perfect plural)
dēstināveritis (active future indicative perfect plural second-person)
dēstināritis (active future indicative perfect plural second-person)
dēstināverint (active future indicative perfect plural third-person)
dēstinārint (active future indicative perfect plural third-person)
dēstinor (first-person indicative passive present singular)
dēstināris (indicative passive present second-person singular)
dēstināre (indicative passive present second-person singular)
dēstinātur (indicative passive present singular third-person)
dēstināmur (first-person indicative passive plural present)
dēstināminī (indicative passive plural present second-person)
dēstinantur (indicative passive plural present third-person)
dēstinābar (first-person imperfect indicative passive singular)
dēstinābāris (imperfect indicative passive second-person singular)
dēstinābāre (imperfect indicative passive second-person singular)
dēstinābātur (imperfect indicative passive singular third-person)
dēstinābāmur (first-person imperfect indicative passive plural)
dēstinābāminī (imperfect indicative passive plural second-person)
dēstinābantur (imperfect indicative passive plural third-person)
dēstinābor (first-person future indicative passive singular)
dēstināberis (future indicative passive second-person singular)
dēstinābere (future indicative passive second-person singular)
dēstinābitur (future indicative passive singular third-person)
dēstinābimur (first-person future indicative passive plural)
dēstinābiminī (future indicative passive plural second-person)
dēstinābuntur (future indicative passive plural third-person)
dēstinem (active first-person present singular subjunctive)
dēstinēs (active present second-person singular subjunctive)
dēstinet (active present singular subjunctive third-person)
dēstinēmus (active first-person plural present subjunctive)
dēstinētis (active plural present second-person subjunctive)
dēstinent (active plural present subjunctive third-person)
dēstinārem (active first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
dēstinārēs (active imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
dēstināret (active imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
dēstinārēmus (active first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
dēstinārētis (active imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
dēstinārent (active imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
dēstināverim (active first-person perfect singular subjunctive)
dēstinārim (active first-person perfect singular subjunctive)
dēstināverīs (active perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
dēstinārīs (active perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
dēstināverit (active perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
dēstinārit (active perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
dēstināverīmus (active first-person perfect plural subjunctive)
dēstinārīmus (active first-person perfect plural subjunctive)
dēstināverītis (active perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
dēstinārītis (active perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
dēstināverint (active perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
dēstinārint (active perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
dēstināvissem (active first-person pluperfect singular subjunctive)
dēstināssem (active first-person pluperfect singular subjunctive)
dēstināvissēs (active pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
dēstināssēs (active pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
dēstināvisset (active pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
dēstināsset (active pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
dēstināvissēmus (active first-person pluperfect plural subjunctive)
dēstināssēmus (active first-person pluperfect plural subjunctive)
dēstināvissētis (active pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
dēstināssētis (active pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
dēstināvissent (active pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
dēstināssent (active pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
dēstiner (first-person passive present singular subjunctive)
dēstinēris (passive present second-person singular subjunctive)
dēstinēre (passive present second-person singular subjunctive)
dēstinētur (passive present singular subjunctive third-person)
dēstinēmur (first-person passive plural present subjunctive)
dēstinēminī (passive plural present second-person subjunctive)
dēstinentur (passive plural present subjunctive third-person)
dēstinārer (first-person imperfect passive singular subjunctive)
dēstinārēris (imperfect passive second-person singular subjunctive)
dēstinārēre (imperfect passive second-person singular subjunctive)
dēstinārētur (imperfect passive singular subjunctive third-person)
dēstinārēmur (first-person imperfect passive plural subjunctive)
dēstinārēminī (imperfect passive plural second-person subjunctive)
dēstinārentur (imperfect passive plural subjunctive third-person)
dēstinā (active imperative present second-person singular)
dēstināte (active imperative plural present second-person)
dēstinātō (active future imperative second-person singular)
dēstinātō (active future imperative singular third-person)
dēstinātōte (active future imperative plural second-person)
dēstinantō (active future imperative plural third-person)
dēstināre (imperative passive present second-person singular)
dēstināminī (imperative passive plural present second-person)
dēstinātor (future imperative passive second-person singular)
dēstinātor (future imperative passive singular third-person)
dēstinantor (future imperative passive plural third-person)
dēstināre (active infinitive present)
dēstinārī (infinitive passive present)
dēstināns (active participle present)
dēstinātūrum esse (active future infinitive)
dēstinātum īrī (future infinitive passive)
dēstinātūrus (active future participle)
dēstinandus (future participle passive)
dēstināvisse (active infinitive perfect)
dēstināsse (active infinitive perfect)
dēstinātum esse (infinitive passive perfect)
dēstinātus (participle passive perfect)
dēstinātum fore (future infinitive passive perfect)
dēstinātūrum fuisse (active infinitive perfect potential)
dēstinandī (genitive gerund noun-from-verb)
dēstinandō (dative gerund noun-from-verb)
dēstinandum (accusative gerund noun-from-verb)
dēstinandō (ablative gerund noun-from-verb)
dēstinātum (accusative noun-from-verb supine)
dēstinātū (ablative noun-from-verb supine)

Catalan: destinar

Dalmatian: destinur

English: destine

French: destiner

Galician: destinar

Italian: destinare

Occitan: destinar

Portuguese: destinar

Romanian: destina

Sicilian: distinari

Spanish: destinar

From de- + *stanō, the latter an unattested verb from Proto-Italic *stanō, from Proto-Indo-European *stnéh₂ti ~ stn̥h₂énti. Related to stō. Compare obstinō and praestinō from the same stem.


fan

en-verb

fan (third-person singular simple present fans, present participle fanning, simple past and past participle fanned)

fans (present singular third-person)
fanning (participle present)
fanned (participle past)
fanned (past)

Inherited from Middle English fan, inherited from Old English fann (“a winnowing, fan”), derived from Latin vannus (“fan for winnowing grain”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).
Cognates
*Latin ventus (“wind”)
*Dutch wan (“winnowing basket”)
*German Wanne (“winnowing basket”)
*Swedish vanna (“a fan for winnowing”)
*Old English windwian (“to fan, winnow”).
More at winnow.

der+

Audio (Southern England)

thumbing

to firing a revolver by holding trigger and hitting hammer

To fan a single action revolver, hold down the trigger and strike the hammer repeatedly with a free hand.

2011, Hans-Christoan Vortisch, GURPS Tactical Shooting, page 14:

(firearms, transitive) To perform a maneuver that involves flicking the top rear of an old-style gun.


limb

From Middle English lyme, lim, from Old English lim (“limb, branch”), from Proto-West Germanic *limu, from Proto-Germanic *limuz (“branch, limb”). Cognate with Old Norse limr (“limb”).
The spelling with the silent unetymological -b first arose in the late 1500s. Compare crumb.

(archery) The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.


club

→ Afrikaans: klub

→ Czech: klub

→ Dutch: club

desctree

→ French: club
→ Khmer: ក្លឹប (kləp)
→ Romanian: club
→ Ottoman Turkish: قلوب (klüb)
Turkish: kulüp

→ German: Club, Klub (used to be common for some decades, but is now becoming less frequent again)
Russian: клуб (klub), клубъ (klub) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
→ Yakut: кулууп (kuluup)
→ Yiddish: קלוב (klub)
Serbo-Croatian: klȗb/клу̑б

desc

→ Greek: κλαμπ (klamp), γκλομπ (gklomp), γκλοπ n (gklop), κλομπ n (klomp)

→ Indonesian: klub

→ Japanese: 倶楽部 (kurabu), クラブ (see there for further descendants)

→ Malay: kelab

→ Spanish: club

→ Tokelauan: kalapu

→ Welsh: clwb

From Middle English clubbe, from Old Norse klubba, klumba (“cudgel”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“clip, clasp; clump, lump; log, block”). Cognate with English clump, cloud, Latin globus, glomus; and perhaps related to Middle Low German kolve (“bulb”), German Kolben (“butt, bulb, club”).

knuppel

heavy stick for use as weapon or plaything

A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.

An implement to hit the ball in certain ball games, such as golf.

(card games) A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.

I've got only one club in my hand.

A playing card marked with such a symbol.


ser

cy-noun

ser m (plural serrod or serroedd, not mutable)

From Old Welsh serr, Proto-Celtic *serrā. Cf. Middle Irish serr.


lock

Tok Pisin: lok

→ Hawaiian: laka

From Middle English lok, from Old English loc, from Proto-West Germanic *lok, from Proto-Germanic *luką from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend; turn”). The verb is from Middle English locken, lokken, louken, from Old English lūcan, Proto-West Germanic *lūkan, from Proto-Germanic *lūkaną. Related to luxe via Latin.

der

"I never saw such a gun in my life," replied poor Winkle, looking at the lock, as if that would do any good.

1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:


arc

Inherited from Latin arcus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo-.

(music) bow (used to play string instruments)


arc

Inherited from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“bow, arch”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo-.


arc

arcuri (plural)
arc (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
arcul (accusative definite nominative singular)
arcuri (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
arcurile (accusative definite nominative plural)
arc (indefinite singular)
arcului (definite singular)
arcuri (indefinite singular)
arcurilor (definite plural)
arcule (singular vocative)
arcurilor (vocative)


arc

arce (plural)
arc (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
arcul (accusative definite nominative singular)
arce (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
arcele (accusative definite nominative plural)
arc (indefinite singular)
arcului (definite singular)
arce (indefinite singular)
arcelor (definite plural)
arcule (singular vocative)
arcelor (vocative)


ax

English: axe, ax

Scots: aix

From Old English æx, æcs, from Proto-West Germanic *akusi.


ax

From Old English eax, from Proto-Germanic *ahsu.


cuerno

Inherited from Latin cornū, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”).

(weaponry, Mexico, Central America) AK-47


flag

en-verb

flag (third-person singular simple present flags, present participle flagging, simple past and past participle flagged)

flags (present singular third-person)
flagging (participle present)
flagged (participle past)
flagged (past)

From Middle English flag, flagge (“flag”), further etymology uncertain. Perhaps from or related to early Middle English flage (name for a baby's garment) and Old English flagg, flacg (“cataplasm, poultice, plaster”). Or, perhaps ultimately imitative, or otherwise drawn from Proto-Germanic *flaką (“something flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, broad, plain”), referring to the shape.
Germanic cognates include Saterland Frisian Flaage (“flag”), West Frisian flagge (“flag”), Dutch vlag (“flag”), German Flagge (“flag”), Swedish flagga (“flag”), Danish flag (“flag, ship's flag”). Compare also Middle English flacken (“to flutter, palpitate”), Swedish dialectal flage (“to flutter in the wind”), Old Norse flögra (“to flap about”). Akin to Old High German flogarōn (“to flutter”), Old High German flogezen (“to flutter, flicker”), Middle English flakeren (“to move quickly to and fro”), Old English flacor (“fluttering, flying”). More at flack, flacker.

onomatopoeic

imitative

cog

(firearms) To point the muzzle of a firearm at a person or object one does not intend to fire on.

osoittaa

firearms: to point at a person or object one does not intend to fire on


ox

az-noun

ox (definite accusative oxu, plural oxlar)

oxu (accusative definite)
oxlar (plural)
ox (nominative singular)
oxlar (nominative plural)
oxu (accusative definite singular)
oxları (accusative definite plural)
oxa (dative singular)
oxlara (dative plural)
oxda (locative singular)
oxlarda (locative plural)
oxdan (ablative singular)
oxlardan (ablative plural)
oxun (definite genitive singular)
oxların (definite genitive plural)
oxum (first-person nominative possessive singular)
oxlarım (first-person nominative possessive singular)
oxun (nominative possessive second-person singular)
oxların (nominative possessive second-person singular)
oxu (nominative possessive singular third-person)
oxları (nominative possessive singular third-person)
oxumuz (first-person nominative plural possessive)
oxlarımız (first-person nominative plural possessive)
oxunuz (nominative plural possessive second-person)
oxlarınız (nominative plural possessive second-person)
oxu (nominative plural possessive third-person)
oxları (nominative plural possessive third-person)
oxumu (accusative first-person possessive singular)
oxlarımı (accusative first-person possessive singular)
oxunu (accusative possessive second-person singular)
oxlarını (accusative possessive second-person singular)
oxunu (accusative possessive singular third-person)
oxlarını (accusative possessive singular third-person)
oxumuzu (accusative first-person plural possessive)
oxlarımızı (accusative first-person plural possessive)
oxunuzu (accusative plural possessive second-person)
oxlarınızı (accusative plural possessive second-person)
oxunu (accusative plural possessive third-person)
oxlarını (accusative plural possessive third-person)
oxuma (dative first-person possessive singular)
oxlarıma (dative first-person possessive singular)
oxuna (dative possessive second-person singular)
oxlarına (dative possessive second-person singular)
oxuna (dative possessive singular third-person)
oxlarına (dative possessive singular third-person)
oxumuza (dative first-person plural possessive)
oxlarımıza (dative first-person plural possessive)
oxunuza (dative plural possessive second-person)
oxlarınıza (dative plural possessive second-person)
oxuna (dative plural possessive third-person)
oxlarına (dative plural possessive third-person)
oxumda (first-person locative possessive singular)
oxlarımda (first-person locative possessive singular)
oxunda (locative possessive second-person singular)
oxlarında (locative possessive second-person singular)
oxunda (locative possessive singular third-person)
oxlarında (locative possessive singular third-person)
oxumuzda (first-person locative plural possessive)
oxlarımızda (first-person locative plural possessive)
oxunuzda (locative plural possessive second-person)
oxlarınızda (locative plural possessive second-person)
oxunda (locative plural possessive third-person)
oxlarında (locative plural possessive third-person)
oxumdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
oxlarımdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
oxundan (ablative possessive second-person singular)
oxlarından (ablative possessive second-person singular)
oxundan (ablative possessive singular third-person)
oxlarından (ablative possessive singular third-person)
oxumuzdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
oxlarımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
oxunuzdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
oxlarınızdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
oxundan (ablative plural possessive third-person)
oxlarından (ablative plural possessive third-person)
oxumun (first-person genitive possessive singular)
oxlarımın (first-person genitive possessive singular)
oxunun (genitive possessive second-person singular)
oxlarının (genitive possessive second-person singular)
oxunun (genitive possessive singular third-person)
oxlarının (genitive possessive singular third-person)
oxumuzun (first-person genitive plural possessive)
oxlarımızın (first-person genitive plural possessive)
oxunuzun (genitive plural possessive second-person)
oxlarınızın (genitive plural possessive second-person)
oxunun (genitive plural possessive third-person)
oxlarının (genitive plural possessive third-person)

Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰸 (q̊¹ /oq/, “arrow”), Chuvash ухӑ (uh̬ă), from Proto-Turkic *ok.


bracket

From earlier bragget, *bracket, from Middle English *braget, *braket (attested in braket nail), from Old French braguette (“the opening in the fore part of a pair of breeches, one's fly”), a diminutive of Old French brague (“knickers, britches”), from Old Occitan braga, from Latin brāca (“pants”), from Transalpine Gaulish *brāca, from Proto-Germanic *brāks, an early form of Proto-Germanic *brōks (“leggings, breeches, trousers”).

kllapë

generically any of “(”, “)”, “[”, “]”, “{”, “}”, “⟨”, “⟩”, “<”, “>”, etc.

(military) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage, supporting the trunnions.

(military) Typically of stationary weapons, the zone enclosed by one long and one short shot impact expected to be hit very accurately.

haarukka

military: endangered region between two shot impacts

(land surveying, 19th century) a mark cut into a stone by land surveyors to secure a bench.


heater

→ Japanese: ヒーター (hītā)

The thug pumped two rounds from his heater into her.

Jones threw a heater under his chin.

(baseball, slang) A fastball, especially one thrown at high velocity.

Emmy went on a heater in Las Vegas and came back six thousand dollars richer.

(gambling, slang) An extended winning streak.

(horse racing) A dead heat; a race in which two or more competitors reach the finish line simultaneously.


mane

From Middle English mane, mayne, from Old English manu (“mane”), from Proto-West Germanic *manu, from Proto-Germanic *manō (“mane”), from Proto-Indo-European *mony-, *mon- (“neck”). Cognate with Dutch maan, manen (“mane”), German Mähne (“mane”), Danish man (“horse's mane”), Swedish man (“horse's mane”), Icelandic mön (“mane”).

Part of a naval sword between the tang button and the quillon.


flèche

→ Dutch: flits

→ Middle Low German: flitse [16th c.]

→ German: Flitz

→ English: flèche

Inherited from Middle French fleche, from Old French fleche, from Vulgar Latin *fleccia, borrowed from Frankish *fliukkijā, from Proto-Indo-European *plewk-, from *plew-.

etymon

(archery, symbol) arrow (projectile or symbol)

(informal, figuratively) bright spark, quick study


magazine

→ Burmese: မဂ္ဂဇင်း (magga.jang:)

→ Cebuano: magasin

→ Dutch: magazine

→ French: magazine

→ Portuguese: magazine

→ Italian: magazine

→ Gujarati: મેગેઝિન (megejhin)

→ Hebrew: מגזין (magazin)

→ Japanese: マガジン (magajin)

desc

→ Kashubian: magazina (Canada, United States,)

→ Shan: မႅၵ်ႈၵၸိၼ်း (mēk kǎ tsín)

→ Shan: မႅၵ်ႈၵၸိၼ်း (mēk kǎ tsín)

→ Spanish: magacín

→ Turkish: magazin

→ Malay: magazin

From Middle English magasyne, from Middle French magasin (“warehouse, store”), from Italian magazzino (“storehouse”), ultimately from Arabic مَخَازِن pl (maḵāzin), plural of مَخْزَن (maḵzan, “storeroom, storehouse”), noun of place from خَزَنَ (ḵazana, “to store, to stock, to lay up”).

der

He all thir Ammunition / And feats of War defeats / With plain Heroic magnitude of mind / And celeſtial vigour arm’d, / Thir Armories and Magazins contemns, / Renders them uſeleſs, while / With winged expedition / Swift as the lightning glance he executes / His errand on the wicked, who ſurpris’d / Loſe thir defence diſtracted and amaz’d.

1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, pages 76–77, lines 293–8:

The cruiser blew up when a shell hit its magazine.

Juneau was making good time with the other surviving U.S. Navy ships, despite her damage, when the I-26 spotted her and sent a salvo of Type 95 torpedoes in her direction. Passing between the Helena and San Francisco, some indication being they had actually been shot at the San Francisco and gone long because San Francisco was travelling significantly slower than expected, they nonetheless hit Juneau and detonated the ship's magazine.

2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 28:10 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 2022-11-07:

(nautical) The portion of a warship where munitions are stored.

A chamber in or attachable to a firearm enabling multiple rounds of ammunition to be fed into the firearm.

magasyn

ammunition clip or chamber enabling multiple rounds to be held before firing

(archaic) A country or district especially rich in natural products.


cartouche

Borrowed from French cartouche, from Italian cartuccia, from carta, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs). Doublet of cartridge.

Besides the uncial writing on the convex side of the sherd at the top, painted in dull red, on what had once been the lip of the amphora, was the cartouche already mentioned as being on the scarabaeus, which we had also found in the casket.

1887, H. Rider Haggard, chapter 3, in She:

In 1762, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, a French priest who was a scholar of Eastern languages, had made the inspired guess that the cartouches set off words of great importance, such as the names of gods or rulers.

2013, Margalit Fox, The Riddle of the Labyrinth, Profile 2014, page 49:

(Egyptology, hieroglyphs) An oval figure containing the characters of an important personal name, such as that of royal or divine people.

(firearms) A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon.

(firearms) A gunner's bag for ammunition.

(military) A military pass for a soldier on furlough.


cartouche

desc

→ Arabic: خَرْطُوش (ḵarṭūš)

→ Arabic: خَرْطُوش (ḵarṭūš)

→ Czech: kartuš

→ Danish: kartouche

→ English: cartouche

→ German: Kartusche

→ Japanese: カルトゥーシュ

→ Ottoman Turkish: خرتوج

Turkish: kartuş

→ Polish: kartusz

→ Portuguese: cartucho

→ Romanian: cartuș

→ Russian: карту́ш (kartúš)

→ Spanish: cartucho
→ Catalan: cartutx

→ Swedish: kartusch

Borrowed from Italian cartuccia, a diminutive of carta, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs).


HK

(when referring to Hong Kong Island)

An investigation is underway after some HK$800,000 in valuables was stolen from a detached house in Pok Fu Lam.

2023 June 9, “Burglars grab HK$800,000 in valuables from detached house in Pok Fu Lam”, in The Standard, archived from the original on 2023-08-21, Local:


RPG

Initialism. When applied to a "rocket-propelled grenade" it derives from Russian РПГ (RPG), initialism of ручной противотанковый гранатомёт (ručnoj protivotankovyj granatomjót, “hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher”), of which "rocket-propelled grenade" is a backronym (though an accurate description of the weapon system).

rocket-propelled grenade
rocket-propelled grenade


RPG

en-verb

RPG (third-person singular simple present RPGs, present participle RPGing or RPG-ing or RPG'ing, simple past and past participle RPGed or RPG'ed or RPG'd)

RPGs (present singular third-person)
RPGing (participle present)
RPG-ing (participle present)
RPG'ing (participle present)
RPGed (participle past)
RPGed (past)
RPG'ed (participle past)
RPG'ed (past)
RPG'd (participle past)
RPG'd (past)

However, one group of Americans at the Embassy doesn’t creep around quivering in anxiety about being RPGed or machinegunned.

1981 November, B.P., “U.S. Embassy”, in Soldier of Fortune, volume 6, number 11, page 53:

It was like the movie Black Hawk Down without the rioters. I was RPGed so often I gradually stopped ducking.

2006 September, Robert D. Kaplan, Imperial Grunts: […], Vintage Books, page 317:

The Taliban had buried a triple mine in the road a week ago and remotely detonated it under a Spartan. Then they RPGed the Scimitar trapped ahead of it.

2009, Ed Macy, Hellfire, HarperPress, page 343:

(transitive, weaponry) To attack with a rocket-propelled grenade.


blad

English: blade; blad

Scots: blade, blaid, bled

From Old English blæd, from Proto-West Germanic *blad, from Proto-Germanic *bladą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥h₃otom.
The form with /aː/ originates from open-syllable lengthening in inflected forms.

(rare) The extensions or pincers of an implement.


timber

en-noun

timber (countable and uncountable, plural timbers)

From Middle English tymber, from Old English timber, from Proto-West Germanic *timr, from Proto-Germanic *timrą, from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“build, house”) (see Proto-Indo-European *dṓm).
Cognates include Dutch timmer, Old High German zimbar (German Zimmer), Norwegian tømmer, Old Norse timbr, Gothic 𐍄𐌹𐌼𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (timrjan, “to build”), Latin domus and Ancient Greek δόμος (dómos).

der

(firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.


glut

glut (nominative singular)
gluty (nominative plural)
glutu (genitive singular)
glutów (genitive plural)
glutowi (dative singular)
glutom (dative plural)
glut (accusative singular)
gluty (accusative plural)
glutem (instrumental singular)
glutami (instrumental plural)
glucie (locative singular)
glutach (locative plural)
glucie (singular vocative)
gluty (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Polish glót. Compare German Gelöte.

(obsolete, firearms) small lead or iron shot (ammunition) used in a blunderbuss or gun (cannon)


sagitta

la-noun

sagitta f (genitive sagittae); first declension

sagittae (genitive)
sagitta (nominative singular)
sagittae (nominative plural)
sagittae (genitive singular)
sagittārum (genitive plural)
sagittae (dative singular)
sagittīs (dative plural)
sagittam (accusative singular)
sagittās (accusative plural)
sagittā (ablative singular)
sagittīs (ablative plural)
sagitta (singular vocative)
sagittae (plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

Aromanian: sãdzeatã

Romanian: săgeată

Italo-Romance:

Italian: saetta

→ Maltese: sajjetta

Sicilian: sajitta

North Italian:

Friulian: saete

Istriot: sàita

Ladin: saëta, sita

Piedmontese: sajëta

Romansch: sajetta

Venetan: sita, saéta

Gallo-Romance:

Old French: saete, saiete; sajette (latinized)

French: sagette

Occitano-Romance:

Catalan: sageta

Occitan: sageta

Ibero-Romance:

Asturian: saeta

Old Galician-Portuguese: saeta

Galician: seta

Portuguese: seta

Spanish: saeta

Insular Romance:

Sardinian: saitta

Ancient borrowings:

→ Albanian: shigjetë

→ Tsakonian: σογίτθα (sogíttha)

→ Greek: σαΐτα (saḯta)

→ Old Irish: saiget (see there for further descendants)

→ Proto-Brythonic: *saɣeθ (see there for further descendants)

Later borrowings:

→ Catalan: sagita

→ English: sagitta

→ Esperanto: sago

→ Italian: sagitta

→ Translingual: Sagitta

→ Spanish: sagita

→ Volapük: sagit

[s̠äˈɡɪt̪ːä]

[säˈd͡ʒit̪ːä]

Unknown etymology. Probably from a pre-Latin Mediterranean language.
A minority view connects it to sāgiō (“to perceive quickly or keenly”).

the arrowhead (plant of the genus Sagittaria)


sagittarius

sagittārius m (genitive sagittāriī or sagittārī); second declension

sagittārius (canonical masculine)
sagittāriī (genitive)
sagittārī (genitive)
sagittārius (nominative singular)
sagittāriī (nominative plural)
sagittāriī (genitive singular)
sagittārī (genitive singular)
sagittāriōrum (genitive plural)
sagittāriō (dative singular)
sagittāriīs (dative plural)
sagittārium (accusative singular)
sagittāriōs (accusative plural)
sagittāriō (ablative singular)
sagittāriīs (ablative plural)
sagittārie (singular vocative)
sagittāriī (plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

Romanian: săgetar

→ Albanian: shigjetar

Italo-Romance:

Old Italian: saettaio

Ibero-Romance:

Portuguese: seteiro

Spanish: saetero

Borrowings:

→ English: Sagittarius, sagittary

→ French: sagittaire, Sagittaire

→ Italian: sagittario, Sagittario

→ Portuguese: Sagitário

→ Romanian: sagitar

→ Spanish: Sagitario

[s̠äɡɪt̪ˈt̪äːriʊs̠]

From sagitta (“arrow”) + -ārius (suffix forming relational adjectives and agent nouns).


harpe

la-noun

harpē f (genitive harpēs); first declension

harpē (canonical feminine)
harpēs (genitive)
harpē (nominative singular)
harpae (nominative plural)
harpēs (genitive singular)
harpārum (genitive plural)
harpae (dative singular)
harpīs (dative plural)
harpēn (accusative singular)
harpās (accusative plural)
harpē (ablative singular)
harpīs (ablative plural)
harpē (singular vocative)
harpae (plural vocative)

Catalan: arpa

Italian: arpa

Occitan: arpa

Sicilian: arpa

From Ancient Greek ἅρπη (hárpē, “bird of prey, falcon, scimitar”).

der

bird of prey, hawk, falcon, tiercel or goshawk (falco gentilis)


Seele

de-noun

Seele f (genitive Seele, plural Seelen, diminutive Seelchen n)

Seele (genitive)
Seelen (plural)
Seelchen (diminutive neuter)
Seele (nominative singular)
Seelen (definite nominative plural)
Seele (genitive singular)
Seelen (definite genitive plural)
Seele (dative singular)
Seelen (dative definite plural)
Seele (accusative singular)
Seelen (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German sēle, from Old High German sēula, sēla, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwalu, from Proto-Germanic *saiwalō. Cognate with Low German Seel, Dutch ziel, English soul, Danish sjæl.
The type of bread is probably related to Allerseelen (“All Souls' Day”).


pugio

The Pugio or Dagger was used by the Romans, a species of that weapon called the Hand Seax was worn by the Saxons, with which they massacred the English on Salisbury Plain in 476.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 34:

(historical) A dagger or poignard, especially the kind used by the Ancient Romans.


pugio

la-noun

pūgiō m (genitive pūgiōnis); third declension

pūgiō (canonical masculine)
pūgiōnis (genitive)
pūgiō (nominative singular)
pūgiōnēs (nominative plural)
pūgiōnis (genitive singular)
pūgiōnum (genitive plural)
pūgiōnī (dative singular)
pūgiōnibus (dative plural)
pūgiōnem (accusative singular)
pūgiōnēs (accusative plural)
pūgiōne (ablative singular)
pūgiōnibus (ablative plural)
pūgiō (singular vocative)
pūgiōnēs (plural vocative)

→ English: pugio (learned)

desc

→ Italian: pugio, pugione (rare, archaic) (learned)

→ Hebrew: פגיון (pigyón) (learned)

From Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-, same source as Ancient Greek πυγμή (pugmḗ, “fist”).

multōs in moenia ēgressōs pūgiōnibus fodere.

c. 100 CE – 110 CE, Tacitus, Histories 4.29

Many, who had struggled on to the walls, with their daggers they stabbed.

Pūgio, quem curvā signat brevis orbita vēnā,

86 CE – 103 CE, Martial, Epigrammata 14.33

strīdentem gelidīs hunc Salo tīnxit aquīs.


top

az-noun

top (definite accusative topu, plural toplar)

topu (accusative definite)
toplar (plural)
top (nominative singular)
toplar (nominative plural)
topu (accusative definite singular)
topları (accusative definite plural)
topa (dative singular)
toplara (dative plural)
topda (locative singular)
toplarda (locative plural)
topdan (ablative singular)
toplardan (ablative plural)
topun (definite genitive singular)
topların (definite genitive plural)
topum (first-person nominative possessive singular)
toplarım (first-person nominative possessive singular)
topun (nominative possessive second-person singular)
topların (nominative possessive second-person singular)
topu (nominative possessive singular third-person)
topları (nominative possessive singular third-person)
topumuz (first-person nominative plural possessive)
toplarımız (first-person nominative plural possessive)
topunuz (nominative plural possessive second-person)
toplarınız (nominative plural possessive second-person)
topu (nominative plural possessive third-person)
topları (nominative plural possessive third-person)
topumu (accusative first-person possessive singular)
toplarımı (accusative first-person possessive singular)
topunu (accusative possessive second-person singular)
toplarını (accusative possessive second-person singular)
topunu (accusative possessive singular third-person)
toplarını (accusative possessive singular third-person)
topumuzu (accusative first-person plural possessive)
toplarımızı (accusative first-person plural possessive)
topunuzu (accusative plural possessive second-person)
toplarınızı (accusative plural possessive second-person)
topunu (accusative plural possessive third-person)
toplarını (accusative plural possessive third-person)
topuma (dative first-person possessive singular)
toplarıma (dative first-person possessive singular)
topuna (dative possessive second-person singular)
toplarına (dative possessive second-person singular)
topuna (dative possessive singular third-person)
toplarına (dative possessive singular third-person)
topumuza (dative first-person plural possessive)
toplarımıza (dative first-person plural possessive)
topunuza (dative plural possessive second-person)
toplarınıza (dative plural possessive second-person)
topuna (dative plural possessive third-person)
toplarına (dative plural possessive third-person)
topumda (first-person locative possessive singular)
toplarımda (first-person locative possessive singular)
topunda (locative possessive second-person singular)
toplarında (locative possessive second-person singular)
topunda (locative possessive singular third-person)
toplarında (locative possessive singular third-person)
topumuzda (first-person locative plural possessive)
toplarımızda (first-person locative plural possessive)
topunuzda (locative plural possessive second-person)
toplarınızda (locative plural possessive second-person)
topunda (locative plural possessive third-person)
toplarında (locative plural possessive third-person)
topumdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
toplarımdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
topundan (ablative possessive second-person singular)
toplarından (ablative possessive second-person singular)
topundan (ablative possessive singular third-person)
toplarından (ablative possessive singular third-person)
topumuzdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
toplarımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
topunuzdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
toplarınızdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
topundan (ablative plural possessive third-person)
toplarından (ablative plural possessive third-person)
topumun (first-person genitive possessive singular)
toplarımın (first-person genitive possessive singular)
topunun (genitive possessive second-person singular)
toplarının (genitive possessive second-person singular)
topunun (genitive possessive singular third-person)
toplarının (genitive possessive singular third-person)
topumuzun (first-person genitive plural possessive)
toplarımızın (first-person genitive plural possessive)
topunuzun (genitive plural possessive second-person)
toplarınızın (genitive plural possessive second-person)
topunun (genitive plural possessive third-person)
toplarının (genitive plural possessive third-person)


top

sl-adj

tȍp (comparative bȍlj tȍp, superlative nȁjbolj tȍp)

tȍp (canonical)
bȍlj tȍp (comparative)
nȁjbolj tȍp (superlative)
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tòp (masculine nominative singular)
tôpi (masculine nominative singular)
tôpa (feminine nominative singular)
tôpo (neuter nominative singular)
tôpega (genitive masculine singular)
tôpe (feminine genitive singular)
tôpega (genitive neuter singular)
tôpemu (dative masculine singular)
tôpi (dative feminine singular)
tôpemu (dative neuter singular)
nominativeⁱⁿᵃⁿ or (accusative masculine singular)
genitive (accusative masculine singular)
tôpo (accusative feminine singular)
tôpo (accusative neuter singular)
tôpem (locative masculine singular)
tôpi (feminine locative singular)
tôpem (locative neuter singular)
tôpim (instrumental masculine singular)
tôpo (feminine instrumental singular)
tôpim (instrumental neuter singular)
tôpa (dual masculine nominative)
tôpi (dual feminine nominative)
tôpi (dual neuter nominative)
tôpih (dual genitive masculine)
tôpih (dual feminine genitive)
tôpih (dual genitive neuter)
tôpima (dative dual masculine)
tôpima (dative dual feminine)
tôpima (dative dual neuter)
tôpa (accusative dual masculine)
tôpi (accusative dual feminine)
tôpi (accusative dual neuter)
tôpih (dual locative masculine)
tôpih (dual feminine locative)
tôpih (dual locative neuter)
tôpima (dual instrumental masculine)
tôpima (dual feminine instrumental)
tôpima (dual instrumental neuter)
tôpi (masculine nominative plural)
tôpe (feminine nominative plural)
tôpa (neuter nominative plural)
tôpih (genitive masculine plural)
tôpih (feminine genitive plural)
tôpih (genitive neuter plural)
tôpim (dative masculine plural)
tôpim (dative feminine plural)
tôpim (dative neuter plural)
tôpe (accusative masculine plural)
tôpe (accusative feminine plural)
tôpa (accusative neuter plural)
tôpih (locative masculine plural)
tôpih (feminine locative plural)
tôpih (locative neuter plural)
tôpimi (instrumental masculine plural)
tôpimi (feminine instrumental plural)
tôpimi (instrumental neuter plural)


naked

English: naked

Scots: nakit

From Old English nacod, from Proto-Germanic *nakwadaz. Compare naken.

Of a melee weapon: lacking a hilt or sheath; openly carried or readied.

(often with an item specified) Having none of something; bare of a thing or quality:

Having no armour or weapons; unequipped for battle.

Unvegetated; lacking plant growth or ground cover.


ordnance

en-noun

ordnance (countable and uncountable, plural ordnances)

A reduced form of ordinance, which is attested from the late 14th century in the sense of "military equipment or provisions". The sense of "artillery" arises in the early 15th century, the sense "military logistics" in the late 15th century. The shortened form ordnance arises by the 17th century, now often distinguished in writing from the other meanings of ordinance. Also doublet of ordonnance.

From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], pages 293–294:


rad

(firearms, slang) Abbreviation of sight radius.


vane

From Middle English vane, Southern Middle English variant of fane, from Old English fana (“cloth, banner, flag”), from Proto-West Germanic *fanō, from Proto-Germanic *fanô, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“something woven; weave; tissue; fabric; cloth”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foone (“flag, banner”), Dutch vaan (“banner, flag”), German Low German Fahn (“flag”), German Fahne. Doublet of obsolete fane (“weathercock; banner”) and fanon.

cog

(weaponry) One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile.


spanner

Japanese: スパナ (supana)

Korean: 스패너 (seupaeneo)

Malay: sepana

The spanner for spanning or winding up the spring of the wheel lock.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, Fig. 10., page xvi:

(weaponry) A hand tool shaped like a small crank handle, for winding the spring of a wheel lock on a musket.


Third World

Our district has many immigrants from Third World countries

developing countries
developing countries

(sometimes derogatory) developing countries, especially that of Africa, Asia and Latin America


First World

(historical, politics) Those countries aligned with the West during the Cold War, particularly in contrast to those aligned with the East (Second World).

第一世界

first-world problems

(informal) Wealthy, developed nations, contrasted with the Third World.


Second World

Those countries aligned with the East during the Cold War, particularly in contrast to those aligned with the West (First World).


arme

From Old French arme, from Late Latin arma (“weapon”), from Latin arma (“defensive arms”).


Waffe

Waffe (genitive)
Waffen (plural)
Waffe (nominative singular)
Waffen (definite nominative plural)
Waffe (genitive singular)
Waffen (definite genitive plural)
Waffe (dative singular)
Waffen (dative definite plural)
Waffe (accusative singular)
Waffen (accusative definite plural)

→ German Low German: Waffe

From Middle High German wāfen, from Old High German wāfan (compare Yiddish וואָפֿן (vofn)), from Proto-Germanic *wēpną. Akin to Dutch wapen, English weapon, Danish våben, Swedish vapen, Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐍀𐌽 (wēpn). Doublet of Wappen (“coat of arms”), which is borrowed from Low German.


arma

arma (absolutive indefinite)
arma (absolutive indefinite singular)
armak (absolutive indefinite plural)
armak (ergative indefinite)
armak (ergative indefinite singular)
armek (ergative indefinite plural)
armari (dative indefinite)
armari (dative indefinite singular)
armei (dative indefinite plural)
armaren (genitive indefinite)
armaren (genitive indefinite singular)
armen (genitive indefinite plural)
armarekin (comitative indefinite)
armarekin (comitative indefinite singular)
armekin (comitative indefinite plural)
armarengatik (causative indefinite)
armarengatik (causative indefinite singular)
armengatik (causative indefinite plural)
armarentzat (benefactive indefinite)
armarentzat (benefactive indefinite singular)
armentzat (benefactive indefinite plural)
armaz (indefinite instrumental)
armaz (indefinite instrumental singular)
armez (indefinite instrumental plural)
armatan (indefinite inessive)
arman (indefinite inessive singular)
armetan (indefinite inessive plural)
armatako (indefinite locative)
armako (indefinite locative singular)
armetako (indefinite locative plural)
armatara (allative indefinite)
armara (allative indefinite singular)
armetara (allative indefinite plural)
armataraino (indefinite terminative)
armaraino (indefinite singular terminative)
armetaraino (indefinite plural terminative)
armatarantz (directive indefinite)
armarantz (directive indefinite singular)
armetarantz (directive indefinite plural)
armatarako (destinative indefinite)
armarako (destinative indefinite singular)
armetarako (destinative indefinite plural)
armatatik (ablative indefinite)
armatik (ablative indefinite singular)
armetatik (ablative indefinite plural)
armarik (indefinite partitive)
armatzat (indefinite prolative)


arma

la-noun

arma n pl (genitive armōrum); second declension

armōrum (genitive)
arma (nominative plural)
armōrum (genitive plural)
armum (genitive plural)
armīs (dative plural)
arma (accusative plural)
armīs (ablative plural)
arma (plural vocative)

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join”). armentum is an independent derivation from the same root, as if from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-mn̥-tom. Cognates include Sanskrit ऋत (ṛtá, “order; right; agreement etc.”) and अरम् (áram, “fitting”), Ancient Greek ἀραρίσκω (ararískō, “to fit together”) and Old Armenian արարի (arari, “I made”).
Semantic development was "that what is fitted together" → "tools" → "weapons". Also related to ars, artus, rītus.

cog

arms, weapons of war, weaponry, instruments (implements of warfare)


arma

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese arma, from Late Latin arma (“weapon”), from Latin arma (“defensive arms”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join”). Compare Galician arma.


dragon

→ Fijian: drekoni

→ Japanese: ドラゴン (doragon)

desc

→ Korean: 드래곤 (deuraegon), 드래건 (deuraegeon)

→ Marathi: ड्रॅगन (ḍrĕgan)

→ Marshallese: tūrāikōn

→ Niuean: tarākoni

→ Swahili: dragoni

→ Tamil: டிராகன் (ṭirākaṉ)

→ Yoruba: dírágónì

From Middle English dragoun, borrowed from Old French dragon, from Latin dracō(n), from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “a serpent of huge size, a python, a dragon”), probably from δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “I see clearly”). Displaced native Old English draca—a doublet of dragon, as are Draco, dracone, and dragoon.

taniwha

Maori mythological creature similar to a dragon

our dragoons were so denominated because they were armed with dragons, that is, with short muskets, which spouted fire like dragons, and had the head of a dragon wrought upon their muzzle

(military, weaponry, historical) A type of musket with a short, large-calibre barrel with a flared muzzle, often hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt.


gar

gār (canonical masculine)
gār (nominative singular)
gāras (nominative plural)
gār (accusative singular)
gāras (accusative plural)
gāres (genitive singular)
gāra (genitive plural)
gāre (dative singular)
gārum (dative plural)

Middle English: gor, gar, gare, gær

desctree

⇒ Middle English: garfysche
English: garfish
Scots: gairfish

From Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰoysós (“pointed stick, spear”).
Cognate with Old Frisian gēr, Old Saxon gēr, Old High German gēr, Old Norse geirr.


Khmer Rouge

/ˈkmɛəɹ ˈɹuːʒ/

/kəˈmɛəɹ ˈɹuːʒ/

From French Khmer rouge (“red Khmer”), from Khmer (“Khmer”) + rouge (“red”).

(historical) A Cambodian communist guerrilla force active from the 1970s to the 1990s under the leadership of Pol Pot.


basilisk

From Middle English basilicke, borrowed from Old French basilique, from Latin basiliscus, from Ancient Greek βασιλίσκος (basilískos) (literally "minor king or chieftain", possibly based on descriptions or rare encounters with different types of cobra which have crown-like patterns on their head; the "deadly gaze" could have been from the spitting cobra's ability to spit venom into the eyes of predators or prey from a distance), from βασιλεύς (basileús, “king”). The cognitohazard/infohazard sense is by analogy with the deadly gaze of the mythical creature.

Awake ye men of Memphis, heare the clange / Of Scythian trumpets, heare the Baſiliſkes, / That roaring, ſhake Damaſcus turrets downe, […]

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene i:

(weaponry) A type of large brass cannon.


cannon

en-noun

cannon (countable and uncountable, plural cannons or (mainly UK) cannon)

cannons (plural)
cannon (UK mainly plural)

Attested from around 1400 as Middle English canon, canoun, from Old French canon, from Italian cannone, from Latin canna, from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). Doublet of canyon. This spelling was not fixed until about 1800.

Holonyms: gun, field gun; howitzer; mortar

A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar, which may include muzzle appendages.

Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.

(military, chiefly aviation) An autocannon.

Near-synonym: gun (often synonymous)

(historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.


muzzle

From earlier muzle, musle, mousle, mussel, mozell, from Middle English mosel, from Old French musel, museau, muzeau (modern French museau), from Late Latin mūsus (“snout”), probably expressive of the shape of protruded lips and/or influenced by Latin mūgīre (“to moo, bellow”). Doublet of museau. Displaced native Middle English kevel from Old English cæfl (“gag, bit, muzzle”), see English cavel.

onomatopoeic

expressive

Coordinate term: breech

(firearms) The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from.


canon

→ Turkish: kanon

Inherited from Old French canon, borrowed from Latin canōn, from Ancient Greek κανών (kanṓn, “measuring rod, standard”).
The 'attractive person' sense comes from an ellipsis of canon de beauté.

der

(slang) hottie, dish, bombshell (attractive man/woman)


canon

English: cannon

From Middle French canon, from Italian cannone, from Latin canna, from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na).


sabre

Borrowed from French sabre, from German Säbel, from Polish szabla, from Hungarian szablya. Cognate with Danish sabel, Russian са́бля (sáblja), Serbo-Croatian сабља, Sicilian sciàbbula.

(British spelling, Canadian spelling, fencing) A modern fencing sword modeled after the sabre.


sabre

Borrowed from French sabre, from German Säbel.

the silver scabbardfish (Lepidopus caudatus)


sabre

→ English: sabre


sabre

Borrowed from French sabre, from German Säbel, from Hungarian szablya.


fenestra

la-noun

fenestra f (genitive fenestrae); first declension

fenestrae (genitive)
fenestra (nominative singular)
fenestrae (nominative plural)
fenestrae (genitive singular)
fenestrārum (genitive plural)
fenestrae (dative singular)
fenestrīs (dative plural)
fenestram (accusative singular)
fenestrās (accusative plural)
fenestrā (ablative singular)
fenestrīs (ablative plural)
fenestra (singular vocative)
fenestrae (plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

Aromanian: fireastrã

desctree

Romanian: fereastră, fereastă
→ Romani: felyastra

Italo-Dalmatian:

Corsican: finestra

Dalmatian: finiastra

Italian: finestra

Neapolitan: fenesta

Sicilian: finestra, finesra

Venetan: finestra, fenestra

Rhaeto-Romance:

desc

Romansch: fanestra, finiastra, fnestra, faneastra

Gallo-Italic:

Emilian: fnèstra

Lombard: fenestra, finestra, fnestra

Piedmontese: fnestra, fnesta

Gallo-Romance:

Catalan: finestra

Franco-Provençal: fenétra

Occitan: fenèstra

Gascon: hrièsta, herièsta, hièstra, hiestra

Old French: fenestre (see there for further descendants)

Ibero-Romance:

Aragonese: finestra

desctree

Old Galician-Portuguese: fẽestra
Galician: fiestra
Portuguese: fresta

Old Spanish: finiestra

Early Modern Spanish: hiniestra

Borrowings:

→ Albanian: fënjeshtër

→ Breton: prenestr, fenestr (or via French)

→ Cornish: fenester

→ English: fenestra (learned)

→ Old Irish: seinistir

→ Portuguese: fenestra (learned)

→ Proto-West Germanic: *fenestr (see there for further descendants)

→ Spanish: fenestra (learned)

→ Welsh: ffenestr, ffenest

Apparently from Etruscan *fnestra (and fēstra from Etruscan *fenstra), compare the personal name Etruscan [script needed] (fnes-ci) and the placename Latin Fensernia, but nothing is known about the meaning of the Etruscan base.

window of opportunity
window of opportunity

an opportunity, opening, occasion, window of opportunity


battery

en-noun

battery (countable and uncountable, plural batteries)

Korean: 배터리 (baeteori)

Borrowed from Middle French batterie, from Old French baterie (“action of beating”), from batre (“battre”), from Latin battuō (“beat”), from Gaulish. Doublet of batterie.

der

1749 Benjamin Franklin, letter to Peter Collinson
Upon this We made what we call’d an Electrical Battery, consisting of eleven Panes of large Sash Glass, arm’d with thin leaden Plates, pasted on each Side...
A Turky is to be killed for our Dinners by the Electrical Shock; and roasted by the electrical Jack, before a Fire kindled by the Electrified Bottle; when the Healths of all the Famous Electricians in England, France and Germany, are to be drank in Electrified Bumpers, under the Discharge of Guns from the Electrical Battery.

[For his experiments with electricity,] Benjamin Franklin utilized Leyden jars and referred to several jars hooked together as a battery (after a "battery" of cannon).

2012, John Karsnitz et al., Engineering Design: An Introduction, page 364:

[The voltage of a single cell is] too low for most applications [... so] a series of cells will be used to obtain the desired voltage – a "battery" of cells, in the strictest sense of the term.

2012, Christian Glaize, Sylvie Genies, Lead and Nickel Electrochemical Batteries, page 6:

(countable, electronics) A device used to power electric devices, consisting of a set of electrically connected electrochemical or, archaically, electrostatic cells. A single such cell when used by itself.

rafgeymir

rechargeable, usually large, such as in vehicles

the marines had six 8-inch howitzers, eight 4.2-inch mortars, and three 105-mm howitzer batteries, each with six pieces.

2005, Barry Leonard, Field Artillery in Military Operations Other Than War, page 20:

(military, countable) A coordinated group of artillery weapons.

(music) A marching percussion ensemble; the section of the drumline that marches on the field during a performance.


fertile

en-adj

fertile (comparative more fertile, superlative most fertile)

more fertile (comparative)
most fertile (superlative)

From Middle English, from Middle French fertile, from Old French fertile, from Latin fertilis (“fruitful, fertile”), from ferō (“I bear, carry”).

There are two basic fertile materials: uranium-238 and thorium-232.

(physics) Not itself fissile, but able to be converted into a fissile material by irradiation in a reactor.


فاس

Borrowed from Arabic فَأْس (faʔs, “axe, hatchet; pickaxe”).

bor+

battle axe, an ancient military weapon in the form of an axe


pero

pèro (canonical neuter)
пѐро (Cyrillic)
pero (nominative singular)
pera (nominative plural)
pera (genitive singular)
pera (genitive plural)
peru (dative singular)
perima (dative plural)
pero (accusative singular)
pera (accusative plural)
pero (singular vocative)
pera (plural vocative)
peru (locative singular)
perima (locative plural)
perom (instrumental singular)
perima (instrumental plural)


trap

en-noun

trap (countable and uncountable, plural traps)

From Middle English trappe, from Old English træppe, treppe (“trap, snare”) (also in betræppan (“to trap”)) from Proto-West Germanic *trappjā (“trap, snare”), from Proto-West Germanic *trappjan (“to step”), from Proto-Germanic *trapjaną (“to tread, stamp”), from Proto-Indo-European *drebʰ- (“to step, trip, trample”).
Cognate with Dutch trap (“trap, snare”), German Low German Trapp (“trap”). Akin also to West Frisian traap (“stepping, treading, stairway”), German Treppe (“step, stair”), Old English træppan (“to step, tread”). Connection to "step" is "that upon which one steps". French trappe and Spanish trampa are ultimately borrowings from Germanic.

vēuháutsīe

a type of trap to catch birds using bait with adjustable loop


bom

nl-noun

bom f (plural bommen, diminutive bommetje n)

bommen (plural)
bommetje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: bom

→ Caribbean Javanese: bom

→ Indonesian: bom

→ Sranan Tongo: bom

→ West Frisian: bom

Borrowed from French bombe, still attested as bombe in Early Modern Dutch.

Er werd een bom ontdekt in het treinstation.

A bomb was discovered in the train station.

De bommen vielen op de stad tijdens de luchtaanval.

The bombs fell on the city during the air raid.

Hij maakte een klein bommetje in het zwembad.

He made a small splash in the pool. (figurative use)


gaat

Cognate with Northern Tepehuan gaátoi, O'odham ga꞉t.


alma

From Classical Latin arma, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join”).


instrument

English: instrument

Borrowed from Old French instrument, from Latin instrūmentum (“tool, device”).


ada

Cognate with Edo áda, possibly derived from à- (“nominalizing prefix”) + dá (“to split, to slice”)


spear

From Middle English spere, sperre, spear, from Old English spere, from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-.
Cognates
See also West Frisian spear, Dutch speer, German Speer, Old Norse spjǫr, *sparrô, Middle Dutch sparre (“rafter”), Old Norse sparri (“spar, rafter”), sperra (“rafter, beam”); also Latin sparus (“short spear”), Albanian ferrë (“thorn, thornbush”).

It's not like you killed someone
It's not like you drove a spiteful spear into his side
Talk to Jesus Christ as if he knows the reasons why
He did it all for you

2000, “Judith”, performed by A Perfect Circle:

A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.

(ice hockey) An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.


spear

the spear side of the family


spear

head

spear c (plural spearen, diminutive spearke)

From Old Frisian spere, spiri, from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru.


air gun

A gun that propels a projectile by compressed air or similar compressed gas (such as carbon dioxide).

空氣槍 /空气枪

gun that propels a projective by compressed air


ammunition

en-noun

ammunition (countable and uncountable, plural ammunitions)

From older French amunition, rebracketing of la munition (“the war supplies”) as l’amunition. Ultimately from Latin; see munition for more.

rebracketing

Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.

गोला-बारूद (golā-bārūd, literally “cannonball-gunpowder”)

گولا بارود (golā bārūd, literally “cannonball-gunpowder”)


ammunition

ammunition (indefinite nominative singular)
ammunitions (genitive indefinite singular)
ammunitionen (definite nominative singular)
ammunitionens (definite genitive singular)
ammunitioner (indefinite nominative plural)
ammunitioners (genitive indefinite plural)
ammunitionerna (definite nominative plural)
ammunitionernas (definite genitive plural)


Lombard

en-proper noun

Lombard (countable and uncountable, plural Lombards)

From Middle English Lombard, Lumbard, borrowed from Old French Lombard, Lombart (“a Lombard”), from Late Latin langobardus, longobardus (“a Lombard”), from Germanic, derived from the Proto-Germanic elements *langaz + *bardaz; equivalent to long + beard. Some sources derive the second element instead from Proto-Germanic *bardǭ, *barduz (“axe”), related to German Barte (“axe”). Doublet of Langobard. Compare longbeard. Compare with Old English Langbeardas (“Lombards”).

Broadwater County
Broadwater County#English

A ghost town in Broadwater County, Montana, United States, named after A. G. Lombard.


conventional

en-adj

conventional (comparative more conventional, superlative most conventional)

more conventional (comparative)
most conventional (superlative)

atypical

antonym(s) of “pertaining to a convention”

(weaponry) Pertaining to a weapon which is not a weapon of mass destruction.


cinta

From Late Latin cincta, plural of cinctum, variant of cinctus.


muscle

English: muscle

From Middle French muscle, from Latin mūsculus (“muscle”).


baseball

baseball (nominative singular)
baseballe (nominative plural)
baseballa (genitive singular)
baseballu (genitive singular)
baseballi (genitive plural)
baseballów (genitive plural)
baseballowi (dative singular)
baseballom (dative plural)
baseballa (accusative singular)
baseballu (accusative singular)
baseballe (accusative plural)
baseballem (instrumental singular)
baseballami (instrumental plural)
baseballu (locative singular)
baseballach (locative plural)
baseballu (singular vocative)
baseballe (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.

ubor

(sports, uncountable) baseball (ball game)


rauta

rauta (nominative singular)
ravvat (nominative plural)
ravvan (genitive singular)
rautoin (genitive plural)
rautaa (partitive singular)
rautoja (partitive plural)
rautaa (illative singular)
rautoi (illative plural)
ravvaas (inessive singular)
ravvois (inessive plural)
ravvast (elative singular)
ravvoist (elative plural)
ravvalle (allative singular)
ravvoille (allative plural)
ravvaal (adessive singular)
ravvoil (adessive plural)
ravvalt (ablative singular)
ravvoilt (ablative plural)
ravvaks (singular translative)
ravvoiks (plural translative)
rautanna (essive singular)
rautaan (essive singular)
rautoinna (essive plural)
rautoin (essive plural)
rautant (exessive singular)
rautoint (exessive plural)

From Proto-Finnic *rauta. Cognates include Finnish rauta and Estonian raud.

sappaan rauta


kirves

head

kirves (genitive kirve, partitive kirvest)

kirve (genitive)
kirvest (partitive)
kirves (nominative singular)
kirved (nominative plural)
kirves (accusative nominative singular)
kirved (accusative nominative plural)
kirve (accusative genitive singular)
kirved (accusative genitive plural)
kirve (genitive singular)
kirveste (genitive plural)
kirvest (partitive singular)
kirveid (partitive plural)
kirvesse (illative singular)
kirvestesse (illative plural)
kirveisse (illative plural)
kirves (inessive singular)
kirvestes (inessive plural)
kirveis (inessive plural)
kirvest (elative singular)
kirvestest (elative plural)
kirveist (elative plural)
kirvele (allative singular)
kirvestele (allative plural)
kirveile (allative plural)
kirvel (adessive singular)
kirvestel (adessive plural)
kirveil (adessive plural)
kirvelt (ablative singular)
kirvestelt (ablative plural)
kirveilt (ablative plural)
kirveks (singular translative)
kirvesteks (plural translative)
kirveiks (plural translative)
kirveni (singular terminative)
kirvesteni (plural terminative)
kirvena (essive singular)
kirvestena (essive plural)
kirveta (abessive singular)
kirvesteta (abessive plural)
kirvega (comitative singular)
kirvestega (comitative plural)

axe (a tool with a handle for cutting, hewing, breaking wood or other work)


kirves

kirves (nominative singular)
kirveet (nominative plural)
kirves (accusative nominative singular)
kirveet (accusative nominative plural)
kirveen (accusative genitive singular)
kirveet (accusative genitive plural)
kirveen (genitive singular)
kirveiden (genitive plural)
kirveitten (genitive plural)
kirvesten (genitive plural rare)
kirvestä (partitive singular)
kirveitä (partitive plural)
kirveessä (inessive singular)
kirveissä (inessive plural)
kirveestä (elative singular)
kirveistä (elative plural)
kirveeseen (illative singular)
kirveisiin (illative plural)
kirveihin (illative plural rare)
kirveellä (adessive singular)
kirveillä (adessive plural)
kirveeltä (ablative singular)
kirveiltä (ablative plural)
kirveelle (allative singular)
kirveille (allative plural)
kirveenä (essive singular)
kirveinä (essive plural)
kirveeksi (singular translative)
kirveiksi (plural translative)
kirveettä (abessive singular)
kirveittä (abessive plural)
kirvein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
kirveeni (nominative singular)
kirveeni (nominative plural)
kirveeni (accusative nominative singular)
kirveeni (accusative nominative plural)
kirveeni (accusative genitive singular)
kirveeni (accusative genitive plural)
kirveeni (genitive singular)
kirveideni (genitive plural)
kirveitteni (genitive plural)
kirvesteni (genitive plural rare)
kirvestäni (partitive singular)
kirveitäni (partitive plural)
kirveessäni (inessive singular)
kirveissäni (inessive plural)
kirveestäni (elative singular)
kirveistäni (elative plural)
kirveeseeni (illative singular)
kirveisiini (illative plural)
kirveihini (illative plural rare)
kirveelläni (adessive singular)
kirveilläni (adessive plural)
kirveeltäni (ablative singular)
kirveiltäni (ablative plural)
kirveelleni (allative singular)
kirveilleni (allative plural)
kirveenäni (essive singular)
kirveinäni (essive plural)
kirveekseni (singular translative)
kirveikseni (plural translative)
kirveettäni (abessive singular)
kirveittäni (abessive plural)
kirveineni (comitative plural)
kirveesi (nominative singular)
kirveesi (nominative plural)
kirveesi (accusative nominative singular)
kirveesi (accusative nominative plural)
kirveesi (accusative genitive singular)
kirveesi (accusative genitive plural)
kirveesi (genitive singular)
kirveidesi (genitive plural)
kirveittesi (genitive plural)
kirvestesi (genitive plural rare)
kirvestäsi (partitive singular)
kirveitäsi (partitive plural)
kirveessäsi (inessive singular)
kirveissäsi (inessive plural)
kirveestäsi (elative singular)
kirveistäsi (elative plural)
kirveeseesi (illative singular)
kirveisiisi (illative plural)
kirveihisi (illative plural rare)
kirveelläsi (adessive singular)
kirveilläsi (adessive plural)
kirveeltäsi (ablative singular)
kirveiltäsi (ablative plural)
kirveellesi (allative singular)
kirveillesi (allative plural)
kirveenäsi (essive singular)
kirveinäsi (essive plural)
kirveeksesi (singular translative)
kirveiksesi (plural translative)
kirveettäsi (abessive singular)
kirveittäsi (abessive plural)
kirveinesi (comitative plural)
kirveemme (nominative singular)
kirveemme (nominative plural)
kirveemme (accusative nominative singular)
kirveemme (accusative nominative plural)
kirveemme (accusative genitive singular)
kirveemme (accusative genitive plural)
kirveemme (genitive singular)
kirveidemme (genitive plural)
kirveittemme (genitive plural)
kirvestemme (genitive plural rare)
kirvestämme (partitive singular)
kirveitämme (partitive plural)
kirveessämme (inessive singular)
kirveissämme (inessive plural)
kirveestämme (elative singular)
kirveistämme (elative plural)
kirveeseemme (illative singular)
kirveisiimme (illative plural)
kirveihimme (illative plural rare)
kirveellämme (adessive singular)
kirveillämme (adessive plural)
kirveeltämme (ablative singular)
kirveiltämme (ablative plural)
kirveellemme (allative singular)
kirveillemme (allative plural)
kirveenämme (essive singular)
kirveinämme (essive plural)
kirveeksemme (singular translative)
kirveiksemme (plural translative)
kirveettämme (abessive singular)
kirveittämme (abessive plural)
kirveinemme (comitative plural)
kirveenne (nominative singular)
kirveenne (nominative plural)
kirveenne (accusative nominative singular)
kirveenne (accusative nominative plural)
kirveenne (accusative genitive singular)
kirveenne (accusative genitive plural)
kirveenne (genitive singular)
kirveidenne (genitive plural)
kirveittenne (genitive plural)
kirvestenne (genitive plural rare)
kirvestänne (partitive singular)
kirveitänne (partitive plural)
kirveessänne (inessive singular)
kirveissänne (inessive plural)
kirveestänne (elative singular)
kirveistänne (elative plural)
kirveeseenne (illative singular)
kirveisiinne (illative plural)
kirveihinne (illative plural rare)
kirveellänne (adessive singular)
kirveillänne (adessive plural)
kirveeltänne (ablative singular)
kirveiltänne (ablative plural)
kirveellenne (allative singular)
kirveillenne (allative plural)
kirveenänne (essive singular)
kirveinänne (essive plural)
kirveeksenne (singular translative)
kirveiksenne (plural translative)
kirveettänne (abessive singular)
kirveittänne (abessive plural)
kirveinenne (comitative plural)
kirveensä (nominative singular)
kirveensä (nominative plural)
kirveensä (accusative nominative singular)
kirveensä (accusative nominative plural)
kirveensä (accusative genitive singular)
kirveensä (accusative genitive plural)
kirveensä (genitive singular)
kirveidensä (genitive plural)
kirveittensä (genitive plural)
kirvestensä (genitive plural rare)
kirvestään (partitive singular)
kirvestänsä (partitive singular)
kirveitään (partitive plural)
kirveitänsä (partitive plural)
kirveessään (inessive singular)
kirveessänsä (inessive singular)
kirveissään (inessive plural)
kirveissänsä (inessive plural)
kirveestään (elative singular)
kirveestänsä (elative singular)
kirveistään (elative plural)
kirveistänsä (elative plural)
kirveeseensä (illative singular)
kirveisiinsä (illative plural)
kirveihinsä (illative plural rare)
kirveellään (adessive singular)
kirveellänsä (adessive singular)
kirveillään (adessive plural)
kirveillänsä (adessive plural)
kirveeltään (ablative singular)
kirveeltänsä (ablative singular)
kirveiltään (ablative plural)
kirveiltänsä (ablative plural)
kirveelleen (allative singular)
kirveellensä (allative singular)
kirveilleen (allative plural)
kirveillensä (allative plural)
kirveenään (essive singular)
kirveenänsä (essive singular)
kirveinään (essive plural)
kirveinänsä (essive plural)
kirveekseen (singular translative)
kirveeksensä (singular translative)
kirveikseen (plural translative)
kirveiksensä (plural translative)
kirveettään (abessive singular)
kirveettänsä (abessive singular)
kirveittään (abessive plural)
kirveittänsä (abessive plural)
kirveineen (comitative plural)
kirveinensä (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *kirves, borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (compare Latvian cirvis, Lithuanian kirvis).

axe (weapon, short for sotakirves or taistelukirves)


sai

A handheld weapon with three prongs, used in some Oriental martial arts.


sai

Compare Portuguese sahi, from Tupian sai (“monkey”).


sai

Borrowed from Hokkien 屎 (sái, “excrement; poop”).

bor+

[…]the employer of the unfortunate maid that was forced to makan sai are indonesians.

1998 February 10, Thye Hoon Lin, “SM Lee was right - Johor is notorious for muggings!”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):

It is Chek Lap Kok ho lang. You should makan sai. Are you an Orang Laut trying to speak Chinese?

1998 July 9, SimiSar, “[sangkancil] New HK airport faces barrage of criticism (fwd)”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):

go and take your morning shower and wash your arse with water and soap after pang sai

2003 April 18, Bone Toad, “Christ won”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):

(Singapore, Malaysia, colloquial, vulgar) shit


lok

lọ̑k (canonical inanimate masculine)
please help by adding the tonal marks.
lók (nominative singular)
lóka (dual nominative)
lóki (nominative plural)
lóka (genitive singular)
lókov (dual genitive)
lókov (genitive plural)
lóku (dative singular)
lókoma (dative dual)
lókom (dative plural)
lók (accusative singular)
lóka (accusative dual)
lóke (accusative plural)
lóku (locative singular)
lókih (dual locative)
lókih (locative plural)
lókom (instrumental singular)
lókoma (dual instrumental)
lóki (instrumental plural)

From Proto-Slavic *lǫkъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *lankás, from Proto-Indo-European *lenk- (“to bend”).