துப்பாக்கி

Tamil

Alternative forms

• துபாக்கி (tupākki), துவக்கு (tuvakku), தோக்கு (tōkku)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian تُفَک (tufak), ultimately from Ottoman Turkish تفك (tüfek). Cognate with Telugu తుపాకి (tupāki), Malayalam തോക്ക് (tōkkŭ).

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 Asia [Combined Tamil Dictionaries]