gunsmith

English

Etymology

From gun +‎ smith.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡʌnˌsmɪθ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

gunsmith (plural gunsmiths)

1. A manufacturer of guns.

   Synonyms: gunmaker, gunbuilder

   • 2018 July 30, Tiffany Hsu, Alan Feuer, “A Rush to Block Downloadable Plans for 3-D Printed Guns”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 9 November 2020:

     In New York, state lawmakers announced legislation on Monday that would require makers of ghost guns to have a gunsmith license and register the firearms.

2. A person skilled in the repair and servicing of firearms.

Synonyms

• armourer, armorer

Translations

person skilled in the repair and servicing of firearms

• Albanian: armëndreqës (sq), armëpunues (sq), armëtar (sq) m
• Bulgarian: оръжейник m (orăžejnik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 火砲工坊 / 火炮工坊 (huǒpào gōngfāng)

• Finnish: aseseppä (fi)
• French: armurier (fr) m
• Galician: armeiro (gl) m
• German: Waffenschmied (de) m, Waffenschmiedin f, Büchsenmacher (de) m, Büchsenmacherin (de) f
• Greek: οπλοποιός (el) m (oplopoiós)
• Italian: armaiolo (it) m
• Japanese: 鉄砲鍛冶 (teppō kaji), 銃工 (ja) (jūkō)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: چەخماخساز (ckb) (çexmaxsaz)

• Macedonian: пушкар m (puškar), оружар m (oružar)
• Polish: rusznikarz (pl) m pers, puszkarz (pl) m pers
• Portuguese: armeiro (pt) m
• Romanian: armurier (ro) m
• Russian: оруже́йный ма́стер m (oružéjnyj máster), пушка́рь (ru) m (puškárʹ), оруже́йник (ru) m (oružéjnik)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пушкар m, оружар m

  Latin: puškar (sh) m, oružar (sh) m

• Spanish: armero (es) m, armera f
• Turkish: tüfekçi (tr)

Anagrams

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