noun
Meaning 1
An obsolete matchlock firearm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
harquebus
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
A portable gun, varying in size from a small cannon to a musket. When used in the field it was supported upon a tripod or trestle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
an obsolete firearm with a long barrel
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: arquebus, hackbut, hagbut
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: muzzle loader
History
Etymology
From French harquebuse, borrowed from Middle Low German hakebusse or Middle Dutch hakebus, hagebus (modern Dutch haakbus), from hôk (“hook”) + busse (“box; firelock”), from Old Saxon hōk + *buhsa, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz + *buhsā.
Across languages
Translations
44 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Asturian: arcabuz — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Breton: akebut — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Bulgarian: аркебу́з (arkebúz) — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Catalan: arcabús — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Chinese Mandarin: 火繩槍 /火绳枪 (huǒshéngqiāng) — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Corsican: arcusgiu — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Czech: arkebuza — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Danish: arkebuse — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Dutch: haakbus — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Esperanto: arkebuzo — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Finnish: arkebuusi — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Finnish: hakapyssy — obsolete matchlock firearm
- French: arquebuse — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Galician: arcabuz — obsolete matchlock firearm
- German: Hakenbüchse — obsolete matchlock firearm
- German: Arkebuse — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Greek: αρκεβούζιο (arkevoúzio) — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Ido: arkabuzo — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Indonesian: senapan kopak — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Italian: archibugio — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Japanese: 火縄銃 (hinawajū) — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Korean: 조총 (jochong) — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Latin: arquebusum — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Norwegian Bokmål: arkebuse — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Norwegian Nynorsk: arkebuse — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Polish: arkebuz — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Polish: arkebuza — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Polish: arkabuz — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Portuguese: arcabuz — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Romanian: archebuză — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Russian: аркебу́за (arkebúza) — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Russian: пища́ль (piščálʹ) — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Serbo-Croatian: aркебуза — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Serbo-Croatian: arkebuza — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Slovak: hákovnica — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Slovak: arkebúza — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Slovene: arkebuza — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Spanish: arcabuz — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Swedish: arkebuse — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Tagalog: astinggal — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Tagalog: alkabus — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Thai: ปืนไฟ (bpeun fai) — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Turkish: arkebüz — obsolete matchlock firearm
- Ukrainian: аркебу́за (arkebúza) — obsolete matchlock firearm