pistol

Etymology
Probably from, or via , from. The origin is unclear, if via German to Romance probably from  forms like  from, from  , from , from. Alternatively, if from Romance to German, from or related to, from.

Noun

 * 1) A handgun
 * 2) The mechanical component of a fuse in a bomb or torpedo responsible for firing the detonator.
 * 3) A creative and unpredictable jokester, a constant source of entertainment and surprises.
 * 4) * February 2012, Thomas Pugsley, Denial (episode) in :
 * KENT NELSON —Until my wife Inza convinced me there was more to life. Ah, she was a real pistol, that Inza.
 * 1)  A small boy who is bright, alert and very active.
 * 2)  An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, but closer than in a shotgun formation, with a running back lined up behind him.
 * 1)  A small boy who is bright, alert and very active.
 * 2)  An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, but closer than in a shotgun formation, with a running back lined up behind him.

Usage notes
Some shooters differentiate between a "pistol", a semi-automatic handgun with a single, integrated chamber fed by a detachable magazine, and a revolver, which is named after its multiple rotating chambers; however, in common usage, the word is used to refer to any type of handgun.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ሽጉጥ
 * Arabic: مُسَدَّس,, طَبَنْجَة, غَدَّارَة
 * South Levantine Arabic: فَرْد
 * Armenian:
 * Avar: таманча
 * Azerbaijani: tapança,
 * Belarusian: пістале́т
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: тапча
 * Cherokee: ᎦᎶᏇ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 手槍
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: pistolo
 * Estonian: püstol
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: პისტოლეტი,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: बंदूक़,, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: piostal
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , 手筒,
 * Kazakh: тапанша, пистолет
 * Khmer: កាំភ្លើងខ្លី, កាំភ្លើងដៃ
 * Kikuyu: mũcinga
 * Korean:, 피스톨
 * Kyrgyz:, пистолет
 * Lao: ປືນພົກ, ປືນສັ້ນ
 * Latin: pistōla, pistōlium, pistōlettus, sclopētus brevior
 * Latvian: pistole
 * Lezgi: тапанчи
 * Lithuanian: pistoletas
 * Luxembourgish: Pistoul
 * Macedonian: пиштол
 * Malay: pistol
 * Maori: pītara, kope
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: гар буу
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: pistol
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Ottoman Turkish: طبانجه
 * Pashto: تفنګچه,, , , توپنګچه, , ټپوک
 * Persian:
 * Dari: تُفَنْگْچَه
 * Iranian Persian:, تَمَنْچِه
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: maki illapa
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: daga
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пѝшто̄љ, са̏мокре̄с, пу̀ца̄љка
 * Roman:, ,
 * Sinhalese: පිස්තෝලය
 * Slovak: pištoľ
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: пистолет, таппонча, туфангча
 * Tamil: பிஸ்டல்,
 * Tarifit: azidan
 * Tatar: пистолет
 * Telugu: పిస్టల్
 * Thai: ปืนพก, ปืนสั้น
 * Tibetan: པི་སི་ཏོབ
 * Tigrinya: ሽጉጥ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: pistolet, pistolýet, sapança
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: بَنْدُوق, پِسْتَول, تَپَنْچَہ, تَمَنْچَہ
 * Uyghur: تاپانچا
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:, pistolion
 * Written Oirat: ᡌᡅᠰᡐᡆᠯ
 * Yiddish: פּיסטויל, נאַגאַן


 * German: Zündpistole
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * Betawi:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Maori: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * 1)  To shoot (at) a target with a pistol.

Etymology
A minced oath of.

Etymology
From 🇨🇬 or from 🇨🇬, either from 🇨🇬 or from 🇨🇬, from, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) handgun,

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) a  gun

Etymology
From. Ultimately from, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) a pistol gun, handheld short firearm weapon

Etymology
From, via.

Noun

 * 1) a

Etymology
From, via.

Noun

 * 1) a

Etymology
From,. Compare 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  letter, epistle
 * 2)  an epistle of the New Testament

Etymology
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Etymology
Ultimately from, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) a  gun