carbine

English

Etymology

Ca. 1600, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French carabine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹbiːn/, /ˈkɑɹbaɪn/

Noun

carbine (plural carbines)

1. A rifle with a short barrel.
   • 1934, George Orwell, chapter 6, in Burmese Days‎^[1]:

     The lock-up was upstairs, a cage surrounded by six-inch wooden bars, guarded by a constable armed with a carbine.

   • December 2010, John Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, World Wide Publications, →ISBN, page 45:

     Inside the wall they found "a small cannon aimed at the entrance of the gate, and all along the street soldiers were stationed and a few on horseback were riding up and down. One of these had his carbine strapped on his back, and swung under his arm was a three-foot beheading sword wrapped in red cloth. That section had been terrorized by robbers, and they were prepared."

Related terms

• Jungle Carbine

Translations

weapon similar to a rifle but much shorter in length

• Armenian: կարաբին (hy) (karabin)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卡賓槍／卡宾枪 (zh) (kǎbīnqiāng), 卡宾枪 (zh) (kǎbīnqiāng)

• Czech: karabina (cs) f
• Dutch: karabijn (nl) m or f
• French: carabine (fr) f
• Georgian: კარაბინი (ḳarabini), დამბაჩა (dambača)
• German: Karabiner (de) m
• Greek: καραμπίνα (el) f (karampína)
• Hungarian: karabély (hu)
• Indonesian: karaben
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• Italian: carabina (it) f
• Japanese: カービン (kābin), 騎兵銃 (きへいじゅう, kiheijū), 騎銃 (きじゅう, kijū)
• Korean: 카빈총 (ko) (kabinchong), 카빈 (kabin)
• Latin: carabina m
• Maori: pū poto
• Marathi: कार्बाइन f (kārbāina)
• Polish: karabinek (pl) m
• Portuguese: carabina (pt) f
• Romanian: carabină (ro) f
• Russian: караби́н (ru) m (karabín)
• Spanish: carabina (es) f

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