تفنك
See also: تفنگ
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Persian تفنگ (tufang), if this isn’t an onomatopoeia of Turkic origin, compare Azerbaijani tüfəng, Nogai туьбек (tübek)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [tyˈfɛɳc]
Noun
تفنك • (tüfenk) (plural تفنكلر (tüfenkler))
- rifle, fusil, musket, arquebus, tophaike
- تفنك بورغوسی ― tüfenk burğusı ― wad-hook, packing-worm, rod for extracting bullets from the gun
- تفنگی قورمق ― tüfengi kurmak ― to load the gun, to cock the rifle
- تفنگی طولدرمق ― tüfengi doldurmak ― to load the gun, to stuff the rifle
- تفنگی آتمق ― tüfengi atmak ― to launch the gun, to shoot the rifle
- تفنگی بوشتمق ― tüfengi boşatmak ― to launch the gun, to shoot the rifle, to discharge the musket
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “تفنك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 1296–1298
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