submachine gun

See also: submachinegun

English

Etymology

From sub- +‎ machine gun.

Noun

submachine gun (plural submachine guns)

1. A type of short range machine gun that is carried as a personal weapon and uses pistol ammunition.
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     Bare-chested children and their parents gathered in doorways, on roofs and in windows as he passed, watched warily by Brazilian troops carrying submachine guns.

Alternative forms

• sub-machine gun (obsolete)

Synonyms

• SMG (abbreviation)
• machine pistol, machine carbine-pistol, machine carbine (the latter two obsolete)
• trench broom
• chopper

Hyponyms

• Chicago typewriter
• Thompson submachine gun
• Tommy gun

Related terms

• machine rifle
• machine gun

Translations

short range machine gun

• Arabic: بندقية رشاشة, المسدس الرشاش
• Armenian: ատրճանակ-գնդացիր (atrčanak-gndacʿir), ԱԳ (hy) (AG), գնդացիր-արտճանակ (gndacʿir-artčanak), ԳԱ (hy) (GA)
• Azerbaijani: pulemyot tapança, pulemyot-tapança
• Belarusian: пісталет-кулямёт (pistaljet-kuljamjót)
• Catalan: subfusell
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 衝鋒槍／冲锋枪 (zh) (chōngfēngqiāng)

• Czech: samopal (cs) m
• Danish: maskinpistol (da)
• Dutch: machinepistool (nl), pistoolmitrailleur (nl)
• Esperanto: mitraleto
• Estonian: püstolkuulipilduja
• Finnish: konepistooli (fi)
• French: mitraillette (fr) f, pistolet mitrailleur (fr) m, PM (fr) m
• German: Maschinenpistole (de) f
• Greek: υποπολυβόλο (el) n (ypopolyvólo)
• Hebrew: תת-מקלע
• Icelandic: hríðskotabyssa (is) f
• Irish: fo-mheaisínghunna m
• Italian: mitra (it)
• Japanese: 短機関銃 (ja) (たんきかんじゅう, tankikanjū), サブマシンガン (sabumashingan)
• Kazakh: тапанша-пулемет (tapanşa-pulemet)
• Korean: 기관단총 (ko) (gigwandanchong)
• Latvian: mašīnpistole f
• Macedonian: автомат (avtomat)
• Manx: fo-vasheengunn m
• Persian: مسلسل دستی
• Polish: pistolet maszynowy (pl) m, peem m, automat (pl) m, rozpylacz m
• Portuguese: submetralhadora f
• Russian: автома́т (ru) m (avtomát), пистоле́т-пулемёт (ru) m (pistolét-pulemjót), ПП (PP)
• Serbo-Croatian: аутомат, машинка
• Slovak: samopal m
• Spanish: pistola ametralladora f
• Swedish: kulsprutepistol (sv) c, kpist (sv) c
• Thai: ปืนกลมือ (bpʉʉn-gon-mʉʉ)
• Turkish: makineli tabanca (tr)
• Ukrainian: пістолет-кулемет (pistolet-kulemet), ПК (uk) (PK)
• Uzbek: pistolet-pulemyot

See also

• assault rifle
• automatic rifle