musket

Etymology
First attested around 1210 as a surname, and later in the 1400s as a word for the sparrowhawk ( forms:, , ), from , from (a diminutive of , from ) used to refer initially to a sparrowhawk (given its small size or speckled appearance) and then a crossbow arrow. The name was subsequently adopted for a heavier, shoulder-fired version of an arquebus, adhering to a pattern of naming firearms and cannons after birds of prey and similar creatures (compare, ),  a sense which was also borrowed into French and then (around 1580) into English. Cognate to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Smoothbore firearms continued to be called muskets even as they switched from using matchlocks to flintlocks to percussion locks, but with the advent of rifled muskets, the word was finally displaced by.

Noun

 * 1) A kind of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army, originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted; ultimately superseded by the rifle.
 * 2)  A male Eurasian sparrowhawk.
 * 1)  A male Eurasian sparrowhawk.
 * 1)  A male Eurasian sparrowhawk.
 * 1)  A male Eurasian sparrowhawk.
 * 1)  A male Eurasian sparrowhawk.
 * 1)  A male Eurasian sparrowhawk.
 * 1)  A male Eurasian sparrowhawk.

Translations

 * Albanian: mushqetë, arnautkë
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: moskete
 * Belarusian: мушке́т
 * Bulgarian: муске́т
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: mušketa
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: muskett
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: მუშკეტი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, moskotér
 * Icelandic: framhlaðningur
 * Ido: ,
 * Indonesian: bedil sundut,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: マスケット銃, マスケット
 * Korean: 머스킷
 * Latin: mosquetum
 * Latvian: muskete
 * Lithuanian: muškieta
 * Macedonian: муске́та
 * Malay: senapang lantak
 * Maori: pū, kauamo, pūokaoka, purukumu
 * Navajo: beeʼeldǫǫh
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: muskett
 * Nynorsk: muskett
 * Persian:
 * Classical Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: му̀шкета
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: mušketa
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu: చిన్న తుపాకి
 * Thai: ปืนคาบศิลา
 * Turkish: misket tüfeği
 * Ukrainian: мушке́т
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: mwsged, mwsgedi

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  A firearm in general.
 * 1)  A firearm in general.

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) hundreds and thousands, nonpareils, tiny sprinkles

Etymology
Borrowed from, borrowed itself from.

Noun

 * 1) A sparrowhawk or.