sharpshooter

English

Etymology

sharp + shooter: a calque translation of German Scharfschütze.

Noun

sharpshooter (plural sharpshooters)

1. A person trained to shoot precisely with a rifle; a marksman.

Related terms

• rifleman
• sniper

Translations

marksman

• Afrikaans: skerpskutter
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 神槍手／神枪手 (zh), 神枪手 (zh) (shénqiāngshǒu), 狙擊兵／狙击兵 (zh), 狙击兵 (zh) (jūjībīng), 射手 (zh) (shèshǒu)

• Danish: skarpskytte c
• Dutch: scherpschutter (nl) m
• Finnish: tarkka-ampuja (fi)
• French: tireur d’élite (fr) m
• German: Scharfschütze (de) m, Scharfschützin f
• Greek: ελεύθερος σκοπευτής (el) m (eléftheros skopeftís)
• Hebrew: צַלָף (he) (tsalaf)
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• Hungarian: mesterlövész (hu)
• Indonesian: penembak jitu (id)
• Italian: tiratore scelto m, tiratrice scelta f
• Polish: strzelec wyborowy m
• Portuguese: atirador de elite m
• Russian: сна́йпер (ru) m (snájper), ме́ткий стрело́к m (métkij strelók)
• Spanish: francotirador (es) m
• Swedish: skarpskytt c
• Thai: นักแม่นปืน (nák-mɛ̂n-bpʉʉn)
• Vietnamese: xạ thủ (vi), nhà thiện xạ