rifle

Etymology
Originally short for “rifled gun”, referring to the spiral grooves inside the barrel. From, from , from (compare 🇨🇬, archaic 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, ), frequentative of  (compare 🇨🇬). More at.

Noun

 * 1)  A firearm fired from the shoulder; improved range and accuracy is provided by a long, rifled barrel.
 * 2)  A rifleman.
 * 3)  An artillery piece with a rifled barrel.
 * 4) A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
 * 1)  An artillery piece with a rifled barrel.
 * 2) A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: азаԥ
 * Albanian:
 * Arbëresh: shklube
 * Arabic: بُنْدُقِيَّة
 * Hijazi Arabic: بُنْدُقِيَّة
 * Moroccan Arabic: مكحلة
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: fusil, rifle
 * Avar: туманкӏ
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: мылтыҡ
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: вінто́ўка, ружжо́, стрэ́льба
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:, karabinenn
 * Bulgarian: винтовка
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:, rifle
 * Chechen: топ
 * Cherokee: ᏗᏂᏃᎨᏂ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 步槍
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:, , kulovnice
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: fusilo
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: rifla
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: fusil, rifle
 * Georgian: შაშხანა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole: fizi
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, राइफ़ल
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: vintovka
 * Ingush: топ
 * Irish: raidhfil
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kalmyk: бу
 * Kazakh: мылтық
 * Khmer: កាំភ្លើងវែង
 * Korean:, 라이플, 라이플 총
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: تفەنگ
 * Kyrgyz: мылтык
 * Lao:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Laz: ťufeği
 * Ligurian: sccéuppo
 * Lithuanian: šautuvas
 * Macedonian: пушка
 * Malay: raifal
 * Maltese: xkubetta, azzarin
 * Manx: raifyl
 * Maori: raiwhara, pū raiwhara
 * Marathi: रायफल
 * Mauritian Creole: fizi
 * Mingrelian:
 * Mongolian:
 * Neapolitan: fucile
 * Nogai: мылтык, туьбек
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: rifle
 * Ojibwe: anwii-baashkizigan
 * Ossetian: топп
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Flint
 * Polish:, gwintówka
 * Portuguese:, , , refle
 * Punjabi: ਬੰਦੂਕ
 * Romanian:, ghintuită
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: gunna-peilear, isneach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пу̏шка
 * Roman:
 * Seychellois Creole: fizi
 * Sinhalese: තුවක්කුව
 * Slovak: puška, ručnica, guľovnica
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sundanese:
 * Swedish:
 * Tabasaran: тюфенг
 * Tagalog: riple
 * Tajik: милтиқ, туфанг
 * Tarifit: azidan
 * Tatar:
 * Thai: ไรเฟิล,
 * Tibetan: མེ་མདའ་ཁ་རིང, རིང་མདའ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: tüpeň
 * Tuvan: ланчыы
 * Ukrainian: гвинті́вка, рушни́ця
 * Urdu: رائفل
 * Uyghur: مىلتىق
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: fuziłe
 * Vietnamese:
 * Vilamovian: gywjēr
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: reiffl
 * Yagnobi: милтиқ
 * Yiddish: ביקס
 * Yup'ik: kalap'iinaq

Verb

 * 1)  To quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing). (See also riffle)
 * 2)  To commit robbery or theft.
 * 3)  To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
 * 4)  To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
 * 5)  To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
 * 6)  To add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy.
 * 7)  To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.
 * 8) * 2011 Fighting for Gold: The Story of Canada's Sledge Hockey Paralympic Gold by Lorna Schultz Schultz Nicholson
 * But a Norwegian player rifled off a point shot that sailed into the back of the net.
 * 1)  To move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet).
 * 2)  To dispose of in a raffle.
 * 3)  To engage in a raffle.
 * 1)  To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.
 * 2) * 2011 Fighting for Gold: The Story of Canada's Sledge Hockey Paralympic Gold by Lorna Schultz Schultz Nicholson
 * But a Norwegian player rifled off a point shot that sailed into the back of the net.
 * 1)  To move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet).
 * 2)  To dispose of in a raffle.
 * 3)  To engage in a raffle.
 * 1)  To dispose of in a raffle.
 * 2)  To engage in a raffle.
 * 1)  To engage in a raffle.
 * 1)  To engage in a raffle.

Translations

 * Abkhaz:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Maori: paraketu
 * Portuguese: revirar


 * Finnish: ,


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:
 * Irish: creach


 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: rihlata
 * Maori: raiwhara


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: lähteä kuin ammuttuna

Etymology
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Etymology 1
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Noun

 * 1)  (carabine)

Etymology
Apparently from 🇨🇬 or 🇨🇬, but compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  a

Etymology
As above.

Noun

 * 1)  a

Etymology
, from, from , from Old Low Franconian , frequentative of.

Etymology
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