Mauser

See also: máuser

English

Etymology

Named after the original designers, Wilhelm and Paul Mauser.

Noun

Mauser (plural Mausers)

1. 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

firearm

• Basque: mauser
• Chechen: маузер (mawzer)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毛瑟槍／毛瑟枪 (zh) (máosèqiāng)

• Dutch: Mauser (nl) m
• Finnish: mauseri, mauserpistooli
• French: Mauser (fr) m
• German: Mauser (de) f
• Japanese: モーゼル (mōzeru)
• Marathi: माउझर f (māujhar)
• Polish: mauzer (pl) m
• Russian: ма́узер (ru) m (máuzer)
• Spanish: máuser m
• Turkish: mavzer (tr)
• Uyghur: ماۋزۇر (mawzur)
• Uzbek: mauzer (uz)

Anagrams

• Maseru, Semrau, amuser

German

Etymology

From Middle High German mūze, from Old High German mūzōn (“change, transform”), from Medieval Latin muta, from Latin mutare (“change, transform”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [maʊ̯zɐ]
• Hyphenation: Mau‧ser

Noun

Mauser f (genitive Mauser, plural Mausern)

1. moult (the process in which a bird’s plumage renews).

Declension

Declension of Mauser [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Mauser	die	Mausern
genitive	einer	der	Mauser	der	Mausern
dative	einer	der	Mauser	den	Mausern
accusative	eine	die	Mauser	die	Mausern

Derived terms

• mausern (“to undergo moult”)

Proper noun

Mauser m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Mausers or (with an article) Mauser, feminine genitive Mauser, plural Mausers or Mauser)

1. a surname

References

• “Mauser” in Duden online
• "mūze" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)