bow and arrow

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbəʊ ən(d) ˈæɹəʊ/

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Noun

bow and arrow (plural bows and arrows)

1. A weapon consisting of a bow and a supply of arrows, often kept in a quiver.
   • 2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

     Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.

Translations

weapon

• Afrikaans: pyl en boog
• Arabic: قَوْس وَسَهْم (qaws wasahm)
• Armenian: նետ ու աղեղ (net u aġeġ)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Bislama: bonara
• Cherokee: ᎦᏦᏗ ᎠᎴ ᎫᏂ (gatsodi ale guni)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 弓箭 (zh) (gōngjiàn), 弓矢 (zh) (gōngshǐ) (literary)

• Classical Nahuatl: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: luk a šíp
• Danish: pil og bue
• Dutch: pijl en boog
• Esperanto: pafarko kaj sago
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: jousi ja nuoli
• French: arc et flèche
• Georgian: მშვილდ-ისარი (mšvild-isari)
• German: Pfeil und Bogen (de)
• Hebrew: חץ וקשת (he)
• Hungarian: íj és nyíl
• Irish: saighead agus bogha
• Italian: arco e freccia
• Japanese: 弓矢 (ja) (yumiya), 弓箭 (ja) (きゅうせん, kyūsen)
• Khmer: ធ្នូ (km) (tnuu)
• Korean: 궁전 (ko) (gungjeon)
• Latin: arcum et sagitta, arco e freccia
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Malayalam: അമ്പും വില്ലും (ampuṁ villuṁ)
• Mongolian: нум сум (num sum)
• Navajo: ałtį́į́ dóó kʼaaʼ
• Norwegian: pil og bue
• Ojibwe: mitigwaab miinawaa bikwak
• Persian: تیر و کمان (tir-o-kamân)
• Polish: łuk i strzała
• Portuguese: arco e flecha (pt)
• Russian: лук и стре́лы (luk i strély)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лук и стрела, лук и стријела

  Roman: luk i strela, luk i strijela

• Spanish: arco y flecha
• Swedish: pil och båge
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: མདའ་གཞུ (mda' gzhu)
• Turkish: yay ve ok
• Tuvan: ча болгаш согун (ça bolgaş sogun)
• Vietnamese: cung tên
• Welsh: bwa saeth