rifle

See also: riflé

English

Wikipedia

a rifle (Mauser FR-8)

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French rifler ‎(“to scrape off, plunder”), from Old Dutch *riffilōn (compare obsolete Dutch rijffelen ‎(“to scrape”), Old English geriflian ‎(“to wrinkle”)), frequentative of Proto-Germanic *rīfaną (compare Old Norse rifa ‎(“to tear, break”)). More at rive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈraɪfəl/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

rifle ‎(plural rifles)

1. A long firearm firing a single projectile, usually with a rifled barrel to improve accuracy.
   • 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict^[1]:

     Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride.

   • 1995, Klein, Richard, “Introduction”, in Cigarettes are sublime, Paperback edition, Durham: Duke University Press, published 1993, ISBN 0-8223-1641-2, OCLC 613939086, page 8:

     In the June days of 1848 Baudelaire reports seeing revolutionaries (he might have been one of them) going through the streets of Paris with rifles, shooting all the clocks.

2. A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.

Translations

firearm with a rifled barrel

• Abkhaz: азаҧ ‎(āzāp)
• Albanian: pushkë (sq) f
• Arabic: بُنْدُقِيَّة f ‎(bunduqiyya)
• Armenian: հրացան (hy) ‎(hracʿan)
• Asturian: fusil m, rifle m
• Avar: туманкӏ ‎(tumanḳ)
• Azeri: tüfəng (az)
• Bashkir: мылтыҡ ‎(mïltïq)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: вінто́ўка f ‎(vintóŭka), ружжо́ n ‎(ružžó), стрэ́льба f ‎(strélʹba)
• Breton: fuzuilh (br) f, karabinenn f
• Bulgarian: пу́шка (bg) f ‎(púška)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: fusell (ca) m, rifle m
• Chechen: топ ‎(top)
• Cherokee: ᏗᏂᏃᎨᏂ ‎(dininogeni)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 步槍 (zh), 步枪 (zh) ‎(bùqiāng), 來福槍 (zh), 来福枪 (zh) ‎(láifúqiāng), 來復槍 (zh), 来复枪 (zh) ‎(láifùqiāng)

• Czech: puška (cs) f, ručnice f
• Danish: riffel (da) c
• Dutch: geweer (nl) n, karabijn (nl) f
• Esperanto: fusilo
• Estonian: vintpüss (et)
• Faroese: rifla f
• Finnish: kivääri (fi)
• French: fusil (fr) m
• Galician: fusil m, rifle
• Georgian: შაშხანა ‎(šašxana)
• German: Gewehr (de) n
• Greek: τυφέκιον (el) n ‎(tyfékion), (colloquial) τουφέκι (el) n ‎(touféki)
• Hebrew: רובה (he) m ‎(rové)
• Hindi: राइफल (hi) ‎(rā'iphal), राइफ़ल ‎(rā'ifal)
• Hungarian: puska (hu), karabély (hu)
• Icelandic: riffill (is) m
• Ido: fusilo (io)
• Indonesian: senapan (id)
• Ingush: топ ‎(top)
• Irish: raidhfil m
• Italian: fucile (it) m
• Japanese: 小銃 (ja) ‎(しょうじゅう, shōjū), ライフル ‎(raifuru), ライフル銃 ‎(raifuru-jū)
• Kalmyk: бу ‎(bu)
• Khmer: កាំភ្លើងវែង ‎(kampləəŋ vɛɛŋ)
• Korean: 소총 (ko) ‎(sochong) (小銃 (ko)), 라이플 ‎(raipeul), 라이플 총 ‎(raipeul chong)

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: تفه‌نگ ‎(tfang)

• Lao: ປືນ (lo) ‎(pư̄n)
• Latin: sclopetum (la)
• Latvian: šautene (lv) f
• Laz: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: šautuvas
• Macedonian: пушка f ‎(puška)
• Malay: raifal
• Manx: raifyl m
• Maori: raiwhara, pū raiwhara
• Mingrelian: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: буу (mn) ‎(buu)
• Nogai: мылтык ‎(mıltık), туьбек ‎(tübek)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rifle m, f

  Nynorsk: rifle f

• Persian: تفنگ (fa) ‎(tofang)
• Polish: karabin (pl) m, gwintówka f
• Portuguese: fuzil (pt) m, espingarda (pt) f, rifle (pt) m, refle m
• Romanian: flintă (ro) f, pușcă (ro) f ghintuită f
• Russian: ружьё (ru) n ‎(ružʹjó), винто́вка (ru) f ‎(vintóvka), (carbine) караби́н (ru) m ‎(karabín)
• Scottish Gaelic: gunna-peilear m, isneach f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пушка f

  Roman: puška (sh) f

• Sinhalese: තුවක්කුව ‎(tuvakkuva)
• Slovak: puška f, karabína f
• Slovene: puška (sl) f
• Spanish: fusil (es) m, rifle (es) m
• Sundanese: bedil (su)
• Swedish: gevär (sv) n
• Tagalog: riple
• Thai: ปืนเล็กยาว ‎(bpeun lék yaao)
• Turkish: tüfek (tr)
• Tuvan: ланчыы ‎(lančıı)
• Ukrainian: гвинті́вка f ‎(hvyntívka), (colloquial) рушни́ця f ‎(rušnýcja)
• Urdu: رائفل ‎(rā'ifal)
• Vietnamese: súng trường (vi)
• Vilamovian: gywjēr n
• Yiddish: ביקס f ‎(biks)
• Yup'ik: kalap'iinaq

Derived terms

• automatic rifle
• rifled slug
• rifling

Verb

rifle ‎(third-person singular simple present rifles, present participle rifling, simple past and past participle rifled)

1. To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
2. To scan many items (especially papers) in a set, quickly. (See also riffle^[2])

   She made a mess when she rifled through the stack of papers, looking for the title document.

3. To add a spiral to the interior of a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight to improve range and accuracy.
4. To strike something with great power.
   • 2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, in BBC^[3]:

     Davies's cross was headed away from danger by Robert Huth, only for Baird to take the ball in his stride and rifle his right-footed effort towards the corner from the edge of the box.

5. (intransitive) To commit robbery.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Hall to this entry?)

6. (transitive) To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
   • Shakespeare

     Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye: / If not, we'll make you sit and rifle you.

7. To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
   • Alexander Pope

     Time shall rifle every youthful grace.

8. To raffle.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of J. Webster to this entry?)

Translations

to search through

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can

• Maori: paraketu

to add a spiral to the interior of the bore of a gun

• Maori: raiwhara

Anagrams

• filer, flier, lifer

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French

Etymology

From American English rifle (19th century).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁifl/

Noun

rifle m ‎(plural rifles)

1. rifle (carabine)

Related terms

• .22 Long Rifle

Verb

rifle

1. first-person singular present indicative of rifler
2. third-person singular present indicative of rifler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of rifler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of rifler
5. second-person singular imperative of rifler

Anagrams

• filer

External links

• “rifle” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Norwegian Bokmål

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology

Apparently from Middle Low German or Low German riffel, but compare with Danish riffel.

Noun

rifle f, m ‎(definite singular rifla or riflen, indefinite plural rifler, definite plural riflene)

1. (firearm) a rifle

References

• “rifle” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

As above.

Noun

rifle f ‎(definite singular rifla, indefinite plural rifler, definite plural riflene)

1. (firearm) a rifle

References

• “rifle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• refle

Etymology

From English rifle, from Middle English, from Old French rifler ‎(“to scrape off, plunder”), from Old Low Franconian *rifillon, frequentative of Proto-Germanic *rīfaną.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁi.fli/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈhi.fle/

Noun

rifle m (plural rifles)

1. rifle

Synonyms

• fuzil, refle, espingarda, escopeta

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Spanish

Noun

rifle m ‎(plural rifles)

1. rifle

Synonyms

• fusil
• escopeta