துப்பாக்கி

Tamil

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian تُفَکْ (tufak), ultimately from Ottoman Turkish تفنك (tüfek). Cognate with Telugu తుపాకి (tupāki).

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /t̪ʊpːaːkːɪ/, [t̪ʊpːaːkːi]

Noun

துப்பாக்கி • (tuppākki)

1. musket, gun

References

• Johann Philipp Fabricius, Na. Kadirvelu Pillai, David W. McAlpin, Rajagopal Subramanian, University of Madras, Miron Winslow (2022) “துப்பாக்கி”, in Digital Dictionaries of South India [Combined Tamil Dictionaries]