ammunition

English

an assortment of rifle ammunition

Etymology

French amunition, for munition, probably caused by taking "la munition" as "l'amunition". See munition.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/, X-SAMPA: /%{mju"nIS@n/

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Noun

ammunition (countable and uncountable; plural ammunitions)

1. Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.
2. Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative.

Translations

articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds

Alabama: ɬaki Arabic: ذخيرة f. Bulgarian: муниции (bg), боеприпаси (bg) Chinese: Mandarin: 軍火 (cmn), 军火 (cmn) (jūnhuǒ), 彈藥 (cmn), 弹药 (cmn) (dànyào) Czech: munice (cs) Danish: ammunition (da) Dutch: ammunitie, munitie, schietvoorraad Finnish: ammukset (fi) French: balle (fr), munitions (fr) German: Munition (de) f. Greek: πυρομαχικά (el) (pyromachiká) n. pl., πολεμοφόδια (el) (polemofódia) n. pl. Hungarian: lőszer (hu), muníció (hu)

Italian: munizioni (it) Japanese: 弾薬 (dan'yaku) Korean: 탄약 (tanyak) Kurdish: Sorani: ده‌بۆ Navajo: bikʼáʼ Norwegian: ammunisjon (no) m. Portuguese: munição (pt) f. Romanian: muniție (ro) Russian: боеприпасы (ru) (bojepripásy) m. pl. Serbian: municija (sr) f. Spanish: munición (es) f. Swedish: ammunition (sv) Turkish: cephane (tr), mühimmat (tr)

any stock of missiles

Portuguese: munição (pt) f.

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Finnish: ammukset (fi) (1), ampumatarvikkeet (fi) pl. (1,2)

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Noun

ammunition c.

1. ammunition

Declension

Declension of ammunition

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