firearm

English

Alternative forms

• fire arm (rare)

Etymology

From fire (“projectile discharge”) +‎ arm (“weapon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪəɹˌɑː(ɹ)m/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

firearm (plural firearms)

2. A personal weapon that uses explosive powder to propel a projectile often made of lead.

   Hypernyms: gun < ranged weapon < weapon

   Hyponyms: revolver, pistol, pistol, handgun, rifle; see also Thesaurus:firearm

   Coordinate terms: cold weapon, white arm; artillery, cannon, autocannon

   David was arrested for illegal possession of firearms.

   • 2022 June 2, Harmeet Kaur, “What studies reveal about gun ownership in the US”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Understanding gun ownership in the US can help inform debates about firearm laws (or lack thereof). […] There are about 393 million privately owned firearms in the US, according to an estimate by the Switzerland-based Small Arms Survey – or in other words, 120 guns for every 100 Americans.

Derived terms

• antifirearm
• antifirearms

Translations

personal weapon

• Afrikaans: vuurwapen
• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: سِلَاح نَارِيّ m (silāḥ nāriyy)
• Armenian: հրազեն (hy) (hrazen)
• Assamese: please add this translation if you can
• Asturian: arma de fueu f
• Azerbaijani: odlu silah
• Bashkir: атыу ҡоралы (atıw qoralı)
• Basque: su-arma
• Belarusian: агнястрэ́льная збро́я f (ahnjastrélʹnaja zbrója)
• Bengali: আগ্নেয়াস্ত্র (bn) (agneẏastro)
• Breton: arm-tan (br) m
• Bulgarian: огнестре́лно оръ́жие n (ognestrélno orǎ́žie)
• Catalan: arma de foc f
• Chechen: долу герз (dolu gerz)
• Chinese:

  Dungan: чёнпо (či͡onpo)

  Mandarin: 火器 (zh) (huǒqì), 槍械 / 枪械 (zh) (qiāngxiè), (archaic) 火槍 / 火枪 (zh) (huǒqiāng), 槍炮 / 枪炮 (zh) (qiāngpào)

• Czech: palná zbraň f
• Danish: ildvåben n (literary, but old-fashioned), skydevåben (da) n
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: vuurwapen (nl) n
• Esperanto: pafilo (eo), pafarmilo
• Estonian: tulirelv (et)
• Faroese: skotvápn
• Finnish: tuliase (fi)
• French: arme à feu (fr) f, flingue (fr) m (colloquial)
• Galician: arma de fogo f
• Georgian: ცეცხლსასროლი იარაღი (cecxlsasroli iaraɣi)
• German: Schusswaffe (de) f, Feuerwaffe (de) f, Feuerarm m
• Greek: πυροβόλο όπλο n (pyrovólo óplo)
• Hausa: bindiga (ha)
• Hebrew: נֶשֶׁק חַם (he) m (neshek ham)
• Hindi: अग्निशस्त्र m (agniśastra)
• Hungarian: tűzfegyver (hu), lőfegyver (hu)
• Icelandic: skotvopn (is) n
• Ido: pafarmo (io), pafilo (io)
• Indonesian: senjata api (id)
• Irish: arm tine m
• Italian: arma da fuoco (it) f
• Japanese: 火器 (ja) (かき, kaki), ファイアアーム (faiaāmu)
• Kazakh: оқатар қару (oqatar qaru)
• Khmer: កាំភ្លើង (km) (kampləəng)
• Korean: 화기(火器) (hwagi)
• Kyrgyz: атылма курал (atılma kural)
• Lao: ອາວຸດປືນ (ʼā wut pư̄n), ປືນ (lo) (pư̄n)
• Latin: arma ignifera n pl, sclopetum (la) n (New)
• Latvian: šaujamierocis m
• Lithuanian: šaunamasis ginklas m
• Luxembourgish: Feierwaff
• Macedonian: огнено оружје n (ogneno oružje)
• Malay: senjata api (ms)
• Maltese: arma tan-nar f
• Maori: pū, kōpere tupua
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: галт зэвсэг (galt zevseg), буу (mn) (buu)

• Nepali: शस्त्र (śastra), गोली गठ्ठा (golī gaṭhṭhā)
• Ngazidja Comorian: mzinga class 3/4
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skytevåpen (no) n

  Nynorsk: skytevåpen n, skjotevåpen n

• Occitan: arma de fuòc (oc) f
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: سِلاحِ گَرْم (selâh-e garm), اَسْلَحِهٔ گَرْم (aslahe-ye garm), تُفَنْگ (tofang)

• Plautdietsch: Scheetjewäa n
• Polish: broń palna (pl) f, giwera (pl) f
• Portuguese: arma de fogo (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਆਤਸ਼ੀ ਅਸਲਾ (ātaśī asalā)
• Quechua: t'uqyachina ayñi
• Romanian: armă de foc (ro) f
• Russian: огнестре́льное ору́жие (ru) n (ognestrélʹnoje orúžije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ватрено оружје n

  Roman: vatreno oružje n

• Slovak: palná zbraň f
• Slovene: ognjeno orožje n
• Spanish: arma de fuego (es) f, chimba (es) f (artisanal), arma pírica / ígnea / ignífera / vulcania f
• Swahili: silaha ya moto
• Swedish: skjutvapen (sv) n, eldvapen (sv) n
• Sylheti: please add this translation if you can
• Tagalog: sandatang pumuputok
• Tajik: аслиҳаи оташфишон (asliha-yi otašfišon)
• Tamil: சுடுகலன் (ta) (cuṭukalaṉ)
• Telugu: తుపాకి (te) (tupāki)
• Tetum: kilat
• Thai: ปืน (th) (bpʉʉn), ปืนไฟ (bpʉʉn-fai), อาวุธปืน (aa-wút-bpʉʉn)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: ateşli silah (tr)
• Ukrainian: вогнепа́льна збро́я f (vohnepálʹna zbrója)
• Urdu: آتِشی اَسْلِحَہ f pl (ātiśī asliha)
• Uzbek: oʻtochar qurol, otish quroli
• Vietnamese: hoả khí (vi), vũ khí nóng (vi)
• Volapük: filavaf (vo)
• Welsh: arf tân m, arf tanio m, dryll (cy) m
• West Frisian: sjitark n, fjoerwapen n
• Western Panjabi: آتشیں اسلحہ

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