rifle

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• /ˈɹaɪfəl/
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Originally short for “rifled gun”, referring to the spiral grooves inside the barrel. From Middle English riflen (“to rob, plunder, search through”), from Old French rifler (“to lightly scratch, scrape off, plunder”), from Old High German riffilōn (compare German riffeln (“to score, make grooves in, ripple”), archaic Dutch rijfelen (“to scrape”), Old English rifelan, riflian (“to wrinkle”)), frequentative of Proto-Germanic *rīfaną (compare Old Norse rífa (“to tear, break”)). More at rive.

184 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: азаҧ (azap) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Albanian: pushkë — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Arabic: بُنْدُقِيَّة (bunduqiyya) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Arabic: بُنْدُقِيَّة (bundugiyya) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Arabic: مكحلة (mukaḥla) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Armenian: հրացան (hracʻan) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Asturian: fusil — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Asturian: rifle — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Avar: туманкӏ (tumankʼ) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Azerbaijani: tüfəng — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Bangi: bondoki — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Bashkir: мылтыҡ (mıltıq) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Belarusian: вінто́ўка (vintówka) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Belarusian: ружжо́ (ružžó) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Belarusian: стрэ́льба (strélʹba) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Bengali: রাইফেল (raiphel) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Breton: fuzuilh — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Breton: karabinenn — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Bulgarian: винтовка (vintovka) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Burmese: ရိုင်ဖယ် (ruinghpai) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Catalan: fusell — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Catalan: rifle — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Chechen: топ (top) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Cherokee: ᏗᏂᏃᎨᏂ (dininogeni) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Chinese Cantonese: 步槍 /步枪 (bou6 coeng1) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Chinese Mandarin: 步槍 /步枪 (bùqiāng) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Chinese Mandarin: 來福槍 /来福枪 (láifúqiāng) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Chinese Mandarin: 來復槍 /来复枪 (láifùqiāng) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Czech: puška — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Czech: ručnice — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Czech: kulovnice — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Danish: riffel — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Dutch: geweer — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Esperanto: fusilo — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Estonian: vintpüss — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Faroese: rifla — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Finnish: kivääri — firearm with a rifled barrel
• French: fusil — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Galician: fusil — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Galician: rifle — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Georgian: შაშხანა (šašxana) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• German: Gewehr — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Greek: τουφέκι (touféki) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Haitian Creole: fizi — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Hebrew: רוֹבֶה (rové) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Hindi: राइफल (rāiphal) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Hindi: राइफ़ल (rāifal) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Hungarian: puska — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Hungarian: karabély — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Icelandic: riffill — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Ido: fusilo — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Indonesian: senapan — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Ingrian: vintovka — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Ingush: топ (top) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Irish: raidhfil — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Italian: fucile — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Italian: schioppo — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Japanese: 小銃 (shōjū) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Japanese: ライフル (raifuru) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Japanese: ライフル銃 (raifuru jū) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Kalmyk: бу (bu) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Kashmiri: رَفَل (rafal) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Kazakh: мылтық (myltyq) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Khmer: កាំភ្លើងវែង (kampləəŋ vɛɛŋ) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Korean: 소총 (sochong) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Korean: 라이플 (raipeul) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Korean: 라이플 총 (raipeul chong) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Central Kurdish: تفەنگ (tfeng) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Kyrgyz: мылтык (mıltık) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Lao: ປືນ (pư̄n) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Latin: sclopetum — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Latvian: šautene — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Laz: ťufeği — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Ligurian: sccéuppo — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Lingala: bondoki — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Lithuanian: šautuvas — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Macedonian: пушка (puška) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Malay: raifal — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Maltese: xkubetta — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Maltese: azzarin — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Manx: raifyl — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Māori: raiwhara — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Māori: pū raiwhara — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Marathi: रायफल (rāyphal) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Mauritian Creole: fizi — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Mongolian: буу (buu) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Neapolitan: fucile — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Nogai: мылтык (mıltık) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Nogai: туьбек (tübek) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Northern Altai: пултык (pultïk) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Norwegian Bokmål: rifle — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Norwegian Nynorsk: rifle — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Occitan: fusilh — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Ojibwe: anwii-baashkizigan — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Ossetian: топп (topp) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Dari: تُفَنْگ (tufang) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Iranian Persian: تُفَنْگ (tofang) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Plautdietsch: Flint — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Polish: karabin — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Polish: gwintówka — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Polish: strzelba — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Portuguese: fuzil — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Portuguese: espingarda — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Portuguese: rifle — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Portuguese: refle — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Punjabi: ਬੰਦੂਕ (bandūk) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Romanian: flintă — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Romanian: pușcă f ghintuită — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Russian: ружьё (ružʹjó) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Russian: винто́вка (vintóvka) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Russian: караби́н (karabín) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Scottish Gaelic: gunna-peilear — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Scottish Gaelic: isneach — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Serbo-Croatian: пу̏шка — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Serbo-Croatian: pȕška — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Seychellois Creole: fizi — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Sinhalese: තුවක්කුව (tuwakkuwa) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Slovak: puška — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Slovak: ručnica — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Slovak: guľovnica — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Slovene: puška — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Southern Altai: мылтык (mïltïk) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Spanish: fusil — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Spanish: rifle — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Spanish: arma larga — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Sundanese: bedil — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Swedish: gevär — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Tabasaran: тюфенг (tjufeng) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Tagalog: riple — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Tajik: милтиқ (miltiq) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Tajik: туфанг (tufang) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Tarifit: azidan — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Tatar: мылтык (mıltıq) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Teribe: krik — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Thai: ไรเฟิล (rai-fə̂l) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Thai: ปืน (bpʉʉn) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Tibetan: མེ་མདའ་ཁ་རིང (me mda' kha ring) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Tibetan: རིང་མདའ — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Turkish: tüfek — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Turkmen: tüpeň — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Tuvan: ланчыы (lançıı) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Ukrainian: гвинті́вка (hvyntívka) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Ukrainian: рушни́ця (rušnýcja) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Urdu: رائِفَل (rāifal) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Uyghur: مىلتىق (miltiq) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Uzbek: miltiq — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Venetan: fuziłe — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Vietnamese: súng trường — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Vilamovian: gywjēr — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Walloon: fizik — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Welsh: reiffl — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Yaghnobi: милтиқ (miltiq) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Yiddish: ביקס (biks) — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Yup'ik: kalap'iinaq — firearm with a rifled barrel
• Bulgarian: претършу́вам (pretǎršúvam) — to quickly search through
• Finnish: penkoa — to quickly search through
• Māori: paraketu — to quickly search through
• Polish: przetrząsać — to quickly search through
• Polish: przetrząsnąć — to quickly search through
• Portuguese: revirar — to quickly search through
• Finnish: ryöstää — to commit robbery or theft
• Finnish: rosvota — to commit robbery or theft
• Polish: plądrować — to commit robbery or theft
• Polish: splądrować — to commit robbery or theft
• Finnish: penkoa — to search with intent to steal
• Polish: przetrząsać — to search with intent to steal
• Polish: przetrząsnąć — to search with intent to steal
• Finnish: ryöstää — to strip of goods; to rob; to pillage
• Irish: creach — to strip of goods; to rob; to pillage
• Polish: plądrować — to strip of goods; to rob; to pillage
• Polish: splądrować — to strip of goods; to rob; to pillage
• Finnish: riistää — to seize and bear away by force
• Polish: wyrywać — to seize and bear away by force
• Polish: wyrwać — to seize and bear away by force
• Bulgarian: наря́звам (narjázvam) — to add a spiral groove to the interior of the bore of a gun
• Finnish: rihlata — to add a spiral groove to the interior of the bore of a gun
• Māori: raiwhara — to add a spiral groove to the interior of the bore of a gun
• Polish: gwintować — to add a spiral groove to the interior of the bore of a gun
• Finnish: ampua — to cause to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory
• Polish: strzelać — to cause to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory
• Polish: strzelić — to cause to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory
• Finnish: lähteä kuin ammuttuna — to move in a flat ballistic trajectory
• Polish: wystrzeliwać się — to move in a flat ballistic trajectory
• Polish: wystrzelić się — to move in a flat ballistic trajectory