Mauser
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
See also: máuser
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Named after the original designers, Wilhelm and Paul Mauser.
Noun[edit]
Mauser (plural Mausers)
- Any of the firearms made or designed by the German company Mauser, notably automatic pistols and bolt action rifles.
- 2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 101:
- The war has begun, confrontations are escalating across the region, and all his men own are old Mausers.
Translations[edit]
firearm
|
Anagrams[edit]
German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle High German mūze, from Old High German mūzōn (“change, transform”), from Medieval Latin muta, from Latin mutare (“change, transform”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Mauser f (genitive Mauser, plural Mausern)
Declension[edit]
Declension of Mauser [feminine]
Derived terms[edit]
- mausern (“to undergo moult”)
Proper noun[edit]
Mauser m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Mausers or (with an article) Mauser, feminine genitive Mauser, plural Mausers or Mauser)
- a surname
References[edit]
- “Mauser” in Duden online
- "mūze" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)
Categories:
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- English eponyms
- en:Firearms
- en:Weapons
- German terms inherited from Middle High German
- German terms derived from Middle High German
- German terms inherited from Old High German
- German terms derived from Old High German
- German terms derived from Medieval Latin
- German terms derived from Latin
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German lemmas
- German nouns
- German feminine nouns
- German proper nouns
- German masculine nouns
- German nouns with multiple genders
- German surnames