تفنگ

Etymology
Borrowed most likely from or  and borrowed at least semantically also from, cognate to 🇨🇬 in the  meaning a blowpipe propelling pebbles to kill birds, so called by  mimicking the sound made when it is puffed: Tüf! See 🇨🇬 for cognates. The terminus ante quem the tüfenk in the meaning of a matchlock-gun has resounded in Persian lands is the end of the where the  incurred resounding defeat because of the Ottoman use of – then expensive – firearms to devastate the Persians as resolutely as  because of the.

Noun

 * 1) firearm, gun, musket

Etymology
, perhaps from, but more likely via through the Mughal Empire whose rulers were initially Chagatai-speaking, and established one of the three "gunpowder empires" alongside the Ottoman Empire and Safavid Iran. The word is itself derived as an mimicking the sound of blowpipes used to kill birds.

Noun

 * 1) gun, rifle, firearm
 * 2)  musket, matchlock
 * 3)  blowpipe