assault rifle

English

Etymology

Calqued from German Sturmgewehr ("assault rifle", (literally) "storm rifle"). The Maschinenpistole 44 was called the Sturmgewehr by Adolf Hitler, whence it was renamed to represent the separate class of firearm it represented. From assault + rifle.

Noun

assault rifle (plural assault rifles)

1. A military style automatic rifle or carbine that fires a shortened rifle caliber round or lower power smaller calibre round larger than pistol ammunition from a high capacity magazine.
2. (colloquial) Any assault weapon.

Usage notes

There is no widespread official definition of assault rifle, and the meaning varies among different legal jurisdictions.

See also

• automatic rifle
• battle rifle
• machine carbine
• machine gun
• machine pistol
• machine rifle
• submachine gun
• trench broom

Translations

a rifle

• Arabic: بندقية هجومية (ar) (bunduqíyya hujūmíyya) f
• Bulgarian: автомат (bg) (avtomát) m 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 突擊步槍 (cmn), 突击步枪 (cmn) (tújí bùqiāng)

• Czech: útočná puška (cs) f
• Danish: stormgevær (da)
• Dutch: aanvalsgeweer (nl) n
• Finnish: rynnäkkökivääri (fi)
• French: fusil d'assaut (fr) m
• German: Sturmgewehr (de) n
• Hebrew: רובה סער (he)
• Hungarian: gépkarabély (hu)
• Icelandic: hríðskotariffill (is), árásarriffill (is) m
• Indonesian: senapan serbu (id)

• Italian: fucile d'assalto (it) m
• Japanese: アサルトライフル (ja) (asarutoraifuru)
• Korean: 돌격소총 (ko) (dolgyeoksochong)
• Lithuanian: automatas (lt) m, šturmo šautuvais (lt)
• Norwegian: automatgevær (no)
• Polish: ‎karabin automatyczny m
• Portuguese: fuzil de assalto (pt) m
• Russian: штурмовая винтовка (ru) (šturmovája vintóvka) f , автомат (ru) (avtomát) m 
• Slovak: automat (sk) m
• Slovene: jurišna puška (sl) f, avtomatska puška (sl) f
• Spanish: fusil de asalto (es) m, rifle de asalto (es) m, fusa (es) f
• Swedish: automatkarbin (sv)
• Turkish: piyade Tüfeği (tr)

External links

• Assault rifle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia