machine gun

See also: machinegun and machine-gun

English

Noun

machine gun (plural machine guns)

A machine gun.

1. A type of firearm that fires bullets in rapid succession by a single action of the trigger.
   • 2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

     Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.

Derived terms

• heavy machine gun
• light machine gun
• machine carbine
• machine pistol
• machine rifle
• medium machine gun
• submachine gun

 

Translations

type of firearm

• Albanian: mitraloz (sq) m, mitroloz m, automatik (sq) m
• Arabic: رَشَاش m pl (rašāš)
• Armenian: գնդացիր (hy) (gndacʻir)
• Azerbaijani: avtomat (az), pulemyot
• Belarusian: аўтама́т m (aŭtamát), кулямёт m (kuljamjót)
• Bengali: যন্ত্রচালিত গান (jontrocalito gan), মেশিন গান (meśin gan)
• Bulgarian: карте́чница (bg) f (kartéčnica)
• Burmese: စက်သေနတ် (my) (caksenat)
• Catalan: metralladora f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 機槍／机枪 (zh) (jīqiāng), 机枪 (zh) (jīqiāng), 機關槍／机关枪 (zh) (jīguānqiāng), 机关枪 (zh) (jīguānqiāng)

• Chukchi: пэгԓяръо (pėgḷjarʺo)
• Chuvash: автомат (avtomat)
• Czech: kulomet (cs) m
• Danish: maskingevær (da) n
• Dutch: mitrailleur (nl) m
• Esperanto: mitralo, maŝinpafilo
• Estonian: kuulipilduja
• Finnish: konekivääri (fi)
• French: mitrailleuse (fr) f
• Georgian: პულიმიოტი (ṗulimioṭi), ტყვიამფრქვევი (ṭq̇viamprkvevi)
• German: Maschinengewehr (de) n, MG (de) n
• Greek: πολυβόλο (el) n (polyvólo)
• Hebrew: מַקְלֵעַ (he) m (maklea')
• Hindi: मशीन गन f (maśīn gan)
• Hungarian: gépfegyver (hu), géppuska (hu)
• Icelandic: vélbyssa (is) f
• Ido: mitralioso (io)
• Irish: meaisínghunna m
• Italian: mitragliatrice (it)
• Japanese: 機関銃 (ja) (きかんじゅう, kikanjū), マシンガン (ja) (mashingan), 機銃 (ja) (きじゅう, kijū)
• Kazakh: автомат (avtomat), пулемёт (pulemet)
• Khmer: កាំភ្លើងយន្ត (kampləəng yŭən)
• Korean: 기관총 (ko) (gigwanchong) (機關銃 (ko)), 기총 (gichong)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ڕێژِنگ (rêjing)

• Kyrgyz: автомат (ky) (avtomat), пулемёт (pulemyot)
• Latin: arma machinae f or f pl
• Latvian: ložmetējs (lv) m
• Lithuanian: kulkosvaidis m
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• Macedonian: митралез m (mitralez)
• Malay: mesingan
• Manx: gunn jeshaght m
• Maori: pū mīhini
• Mongolian: пулемёт (mn) (pulemjot)
• Navajo: beeʼeldǫǫh tʼáá bíniʼdii bikʼa ádiih yiyiinííłígíí
• Nogai: окшашар (okşaşar)
• Norman: fûsi-machinne m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: maskingevær n

  Nynorsk: maskingevær n

• Pashto: ماشينګن m (māšíngán)
• Persian: مسلسل (fa) (mosalsal)
• Pohnpeian: kikansu
• Polish: karabin maszynowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: metralhadora (pt) f
• Romanian: mitralieră (ro) f
• Russian: автома́т (ru) m (avtomát), пулемёт (ru) m (pulemjót)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: митраљез m, стројница f

  Roman: mitraljez (sh) m strojnica (sh) f

• Slovak: guľomet m
• Slovene: mitraljez (sl) m
• Spanish: ametralladora (es) f
• Swedish: kulspruta (sv) c
• Tagalog: ulipaltog, ametralyadora, masinggan
• Tajik: автомат (tg) (avtomat), пулемёт (pulemyot)
• Thai: ปืนกล (th) (bpʉʉn-gon)
• Tibetan: མེ་མདའ་སྦག་སྦག (me mda' sbag sbag)
• Turkish: makineli tüfek (tr)
• Turkmen: awtomat (tk), pulemýot
• Ukrainian: автома́т (uk) m (avtomát), кулеме́т m (kulemét)
• Urdu: مشین گن f (maśīn gan)
• Uyghur: ئاپتومات (aptomat), پىلىموت (pilimot)
• Uzbek: avtomat (uz), pulemyot (uz)
• Vietnamese: súng máy (vi)
• Welsh: dryll peiriannol m, gwn peiriant m
• Yakut: аптамаат (aptamaat)
• Yiddish: אויטאָמאַט m (oytomat), אֲװטאָמאַט‎‎ m (avtomat)

See also

• chain gun