See also: تفنگ

Ottoman Turkish

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تفنك

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Etymology

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From Old Anatolian Turkish, a Turkic onomatopoeia, Karakhanid [script needed] (tüwek) in Dīwān Luḡāt at-Turk meaning a blowpipe shooting pebbles against birds (imagined as sounding tüf!). Modern cognates include Azerbaijani tüfəng, Turkmen tüpeň and Nogai туьбек (tübek).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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تفنك (tüfenk) (plural تفنكلر (tüfenkler))

  1. rifle, fusil, musket, arquebus, tophaike
    كوچك تفنكküçük tüfenkpistol
    آت تفنگیat tüfengipistol
    آو تفنگیav tüfengihunting-rifle
    طبنجه تفنگیtabanca tüfengirifle with gunlock
    طالیان تفنگیdalyan tüfengiblunderbuss
    ششخانه ناملیلیو تفنكşeşhane namlılü tüfenkrifled rifle
    تفنك ناملیسیtüfenk namlısırifle barrel
    تفنك قونداغیtüfenk kundağırifle butt
    تفنك قبوریtüfenk kuburıpistol holster
    تفنك فندغیtüfenk funduğıbullet, dot
    تفنك گوله‌سی / نفنك گله‌سیtüfenk gülesibullet, dot
    تفنگڭ فالیه‌سیtüfengün falyasıflash pan; touch hole
    تفنك چبوغیtüfenk çubuğıgun-stick, rod for stuffing the gun with bullets
    تفنك بورغوسیtüfenk burğusıwad-hook, packing-worm, rod for extracting bullets from the gun
    تفنگی قورمقtüfengi kurmakto load the gun, to cock the rifle
    تفنگی طولدرمقtüfengi doldurmakto load the gun, to stuff the rifle
    تفنگی آتمقtüfengi atmakto launch the gun, to shoot the rifle
    تفنگی بوشتمقtüfengi boşatmakto launch the gun, to shoot the rifle, to discharge the musket
    تفنك آتیجیtüfenk atıcımusketeer, rifleman

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Further reading

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  • Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 19)‎[1] (in German), volume II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 447
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تفنك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 387
  • 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[3], Vienna, columns 1296–1298
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تفنك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 573