revolver

See also: Revolver, revólver, and revòlver

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈvɒl.vɚ/

Noun

revolver (plural revolvers)

A revolver

1. A handgun with a revolving chamber enabling several shots to be fired without reloading.
2. (by extension) Any (personal) firearm with such a mechanism.
3. (finance) Synonym of revolving line of credit
4. Agent noun of revolve; something that revolves.

Synonyms

• (handgun): wheelgun

Hyponyms

(handgun):

• six-gun
• six-shooter

Derived terms

• service revolver

Descendants

Descendants of revolver in other languages

• Catalan: revòlver
• Crimean Tatar: revolver
• Dutch: revolver
• French: revolver
• Galician: revólver
• German: Revolver
• Hungarian: revolver
• Italian: revolver
• Japanese: リボルバー (riborubā)
• Norwegian:
  • Bokmål: revolver
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: revolver

• Polish: rewolwer
• Portuguese: revólver
• Russian: револьвер (revolʹver)
• Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: револвер
  • Latin script: revolver
• Spanish: revólver
• Swedish: revolver
• Yiddish: רעוואָלווער (revolver)

Translations

a handgun with revolving chambers

• Afrikaans: rewolwer
• Albanian: revole (sq)
• Arabic: مُسَدَّس f (musaddas)
• Armenian: ատրճանակ (hy) (atrčanak)
• Basque: errebolber
• Bulgarian: рево́лвер m (revólver)
• Catalan: revòlver m
• Cebuano: bolber
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 左輪手槍／左轮手枪 (zh) (zuǒ lún shǒuqiāng), 左轮手枪 (zh) (zuǒlún shǒuqiāng), 左輪／左轮 (zh) (zuǒlún), 左轮 (zh) (zuǒlún)

• Crimean Tatar: revolver
• Czech: revolver (cs) m
• Dutch: revolver (nl)
• Estonian: revolver (et)
• Finnish: revolveri (fi)
• French: revolver (fr) m
• German: Revolver (de) m
• Greek: περίστροφο (el) n (perístrofo)
• Hebrew: אֶקְדָּח (he) m (ekdakh)
• Hungarian: revolver (hu)
• Icelandic: marghleypt skammbyssa f
• Indonesian: repolper (id), pistol (id)
• Irish: gunnán m
• Italian: rivoltella (it) f, revolver (it) m
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• Japanese: リボルバー (riborubā), 拳銃 (ja) (けんじゅう, kenjū)
• Kalmyk: пистул (pistul)
• Korean: 리볼버 (ribolbeo), 권총 (ko) (gwonchong) (拳銃 (ko))
• Latvian: revolveris m
• Lithuanian: revolveris m
• Malay: pistol, revolver
• Maltese: rivolver m
• Maori: pū hurihuri
• Papiamentu: revòlver
• Persian: هفت‌تیر (haft-tir), رولور (fa) (revolver)
• Polish: rewolwer (pl) m, bębenkowiec m
• Portuguese: revólver (pt) m
• Romanian: revolverul
• Russian: револьве́р (ru) m (revolʹvér), (Nagant revolver) нага́н (ru) m (nagán)
• Scots: rothaldag
• Scottish Gaelic: daga-cuairt m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: револвер m

  Roman: revolver (sh) m

• Spanish: revólver (es) m
• Swedish: revolver (sv) n
• Tagalog: rebolbr
• Yiddish: רעוואָלווער m (revolver), שפּײַער m (shpayer) (criminal slang), נאַגאַן m (nagan) (Nagant revolver)
• Zulu: volovolo

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Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from English revolver.

Noun

revolver

1. revolver pistol

Declension

Declension of revolver

nominative	revolver
genitive	revolverniñ
dative	revolverge
accusative	revolverni
locative	revolverde
ablative	revolverden

References

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɛvolvɛr]

Noun

1. revolver (handgun)

Related terms

• See voluta

Further reading

• Template:R:PSJC
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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English revolver.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

revolver m (plural revolvers, diminutive revolvertje n)

1. revolver

Hypernyms

• vuistvuurwapen

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English revolver.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁe.vɔl.vɛʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

revolver m (plural revolvers)

1. revolver (gun)

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Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English revolver.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɛvolvɛr]
• Hyphenation: re‧vol‧ver

Noun

revolver (plural revolverek)

1. revolver

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	revolver	revolverek
accusative	revolvert	revolvereket
dative	revolvernek	revolvereknek
instrumental	revolverrel	revolverekkel
causal-final	revolverért	revolverekért
translative	revolverré	revolverekké
terminative	revolverig	revolverekig
essive-formal	revolverként	revolverekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	revolverben	revolverekben
superessive	revolveren	revolvereken
adessive	revolvernél	revolvereknél
illative	revolverbe	revolverekbe
sublative	revolverre	revolverekre
allative	revolverhez	revolverekhez
elative	revolverből	revolverekből
delative	revolverről	revolverekről
ablative	revolvertől	revolverektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	revolveré	revolvereké
non-attributive possessive - plural	revolveréi	revolverekéi

Possessive forms of revolver
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	revolverem	revolvereim
2nd person sing.	revolvered	revolvereid
3rd person sing.	revolvere	revolverei
1st person plural	revolverünk	revolvereink
2nd person plural	revolveretek	revolvereitek
3rd person plural	revolverük	revolvereik

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English revolver.

Noun

revolver m (uncountable)

1. revolver (handgun)
2. Rotating attachment, on a camera, having multiple lenses

Synonyms

• (handgun): pistola a tamburo, rivoltella

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English revolver.

Noun

revolver m (definite singular revolveren, indefinite plural revolvere, definite plural revolverne)

1. a revolver

   Han fikk tak i en revolver.

   He got hold of a revolver.

References

• “revolver” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English revolver.

Noun

revolver m (definite singular revolveren, indefinite plural revolverar, definite plural revolverane)

1. a revolver

   Han fekk tak i ein revolver.

   He got hold of a revolver.

References

• “revolver” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin revolvere, present active infinitive of revolvō (“turn over, roll back, reflect upon”), from re- (“back, again”) + volvō (“roll”).

Verb

1. to turn over (e.g., earth)
2. to roll (the eyes)
3. to go through (e.g., archives)

Related terms

• revolto
• volver

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English revolver.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reʋǒlʋer/
• Hyphenation: re‧vol‧ver

Noun

revòlver m (Cyrillic spelling рево̀лвер)

1. revolver

Declension

Declension of revolver

	singular	plural
nominative	revolver	revolveri
genitive	revolvera	revolvera
dative	revolveru	revolverima
accusative	revolver	revolvere
vocative	revolveru	revolveri
locative	revolveru	revolverima
instrumental	revolverom	revolverima

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin revolvere, present active infinitive of revolvō (“turn over, roll back, reflect upon”), from re- (“back, again”) + volvō (“roll”).

Verb

1. to stir, to mix
2. to jumble up, to disarrange
3. to turn over, to poke about, to rummage around in
4. to consider, to turn over, to ponder
5. to disturb, to stir up, to upset
6. to swing around
7. to wrap, to wrap up
8. to turn 360 degrees, to revolve

Usage notes

• Revolver is a false friend, and does not mean a type of gun in Spanish. The Spanish word for that English meaning of revolver is revólver.

Derived terms

• huevos revueltos

 

Related terms

• revuelto
• revoltijo
• revolución
• revoltear
• revoltoso
• revoltura
• volver

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English revolver.

Noun

revolver c

1. a revolver (firearm)

Declension

Declension of revolver
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	revolver	revolvern	revolvrar	revolvrarna
Genitive	revolvers	revolverns	revolvrars	revolvrarnas