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Etymology 1
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gun + powder
gunpowder (countable and uncountable, plural gunpowders)
- An explosive mixture of saltpetre (potassium nitrate), charcoal and sulphur; formerly used in gunnery but now mostly used in fireworks.
ca. 1823, William E. Cormack, Cormack Papers, page 19/84 (note: on the annihilation of the Beothuk):They have been a bold, heroic, and purely self dependent nation, never having either courted,—or been subdued by—other Tribes or Europeans. But what early mind—a power—could face gunpowder and the firelocks? Hence their annihilation!
- Short for gunpowder tea.
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Translations
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explosive mixture
- Afrikaans: buskruit
- Albanian: barut (sq) m
- Arabic: بَارُود m (bārūd)
- Aragonese: polvora f
- Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܒܐܪܘܕ (bārūḏ)
- Armenian: վառոդ (hy) (vaṙod), բարութ (hy) (barutʻ) (dialectal)
- Assamese: বাৰুদ (barud)
- Azerbaijani: barıt (az)
- Bashkir: дары (darı)
- Belarusian: по́рах m (pórax)
- Bengali: বারুদ (bn) (barud)
- Bikol Central: ubat
- Bulgarian: бару́т m (barút)
- Burmese: ယမ်းမှုန့် (my) (yam:hmun.), ယမ်း (my) (yam:)
- Buryat: дари (dari)
- Catalan: pólvora (ca) f
- Cherokee: ᎠᏓᏪᎳᎩᏍᎩ (adawelagisgi)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 火藥/火药 (fo2 joek6)
- Mandarin: 火藥/火药 (zh) (huǒyào)
- Czech: střelný prach m
- Danish: krudt n
- Daur: ort
- Dongxiang: hoye
- Dutch: buskruit (nl) n
- East Yugur: daari
- Erzya: толбочт (tolbočt)
- Esperanto: nigra pulvo, pulvo
- Estonian: püssirohi (et)
- Finnish: ruuti (fi)
- French: poudre à canon (fr) f, poudre (fr) f
- Galician: pólvora (gl)
- Georgian: დენთი (ka) (denti), წამალი (ka) (c̣amali)
- German: Schießpulver (de) n, Schwarzpulver (de) n
- Greek: μπαρούτι (el) n (baroúti)
- Hebrew: אֲבַק שְׂרֵפָה (he) (avak srefa)
- Hindi: बारूद (hi) f (bārūd)
- Hungarian: lőpor (hu), puskapor (hu)
- Icelandic: byssupúður n
- Indonesian: bubuk mesiu
- Ingrian: ruuti
- Interlingua: pulvere
- Irish: púdar gunna m
- Italian: polvere da sparo f, polvere pirica f
- Japanese: 火薬 (ja) (かやく, kayaku)
- Kalmyk: дәр (där)
- Kapampangan: ubat
- Kazakh: оқ-дәрі (oq-därı)
- Khmer: រំសេវ (km) (rumseew)
- Korean: 화약(火藥) (ko) (hwayak)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: باڕووت (barrût)
- Northern Kurdish: barût (ku)
- Kyrgyz: порох (ky) (poroh), дары (ky) (darı)
- Lao: ຫມຶ້ (mư), ໝື້ (lo) (mư̄)
- Latvian: šaujampulveris m
- Lithuanian: parakas m
- Macedonian: барут m (barut)
- Malay: masiu, mensiu
- Malayalam: വെടിമരുന്ന് (ml) (veṭimarunnŭ)
- Manchu: ᠣᡴᡨᠣ (okto)
- Manx: poodyr çhentagh m, poodyr m
- Maori: paura
- Mongghul: pau sman
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: дарь (mn) (darʹ)
- Navajo: beeʼeldǫǫh bikǫʼ
- Nepali: बारूद (bārūd)
- Ngazidja Comorian: baruti
- Nivkh: меутю оӽт (meuțu oẋt)
- Norman: poudre à canon f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: krutt (no) n
- Nynorsk: krut n
- Ottoman Turkish: باروت (barut)
- Pashto: باروت (ps) m (bārut), دارو (ps) m pl (dāru)
- Persian: باروت (fa) (bârut), بارود (bârud)
- Plautdietsch: Scheetpulwa n
- Polish: proch (pl) m
- Portuguese: pólvora (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਬਾਰੂਦ (bārūd)
- Romanian: praf de pușcă (ro) n
- Russian: по́рох (ru) m (pórox), чёрный по́рох m (čórnyj pórox)
- Scottish Gaelic: fùdar-gunna m, fùdar m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ба́рут m
- Roman: bárut (sh) m
- Shan: ယၢမ်း (shn) (yáam)
- Shor: тар (tar)
- Slovak: strelný prach m
- Slovene: smodnik (sl) m
- Southern Altai: таары (taarï)
- Spanish: pólvora (es) f, polvorín m
- Swahili: baruti
- Swedish: krut (sv) n
- Tagalog: malilang, pulbura (tl)
- Tajik: борут (borut)
- Tatar: дары (tt) (darı)
- Telugu: పేలుడు మందు (pēluḍu mandu)
- Thai: ดินปืน (th) (din-bpʉʉn)
- Tibetan: མེ་རྫས (me rdzas)
- Tlingit: at tugáni
- Turkish: barut (tr)
- Turkmen: däri
- Tuvan: дары (darı)
- Ukrainian: по́рох m (pórox)
- Urdu: بارود f (bārūd)
- Uyghur: مىلتىق دورىسى (miltiq dorisi), پوروخ (porox)
- Uzbek: porox (uz), miltiqdori
- Vietnamese: thuốc súng (vi)
- Vilamovian: śispuwer
- Welsh: powdwr gwn, fflamlwch m
- Yakut: буорах (buoraq)
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gunpowder (third-person singular simple present gunpowders, present participle gunpowdering, simple past and past participle gunpowdered)
- (transitive) To destroy with gunpowder.
1875, John H. Kingsbury, Kingsbury Sketches, page 54:[…] he was […] never getting into quarrels with his neighbors and gunpowdering them out of house and home. His subjects loved him.
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Etymology 2
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Possibly due to its smell resembling gunpowder during the British Raj.[1]
gunpowder (uncountable)
- (India, informal) Idli podi/milagai podi; ground-up dry spices mixed with oil and ghee and served alongside idli or dosa.
1989, Bombay: The City Magazine, page 26:Some restaurants try and give their dosas the "ethnic" touch by slipping along a small dish of mulaga podi-gunpowder mixed with oil as well, but that isn't always enough.
2015 June 12, Priyadarshini Nandy, “South India's Spice Hero: How to Make the Famous Gunpowder”, in NDTV[2]:It was a hardcore Andhra lunch from a restaurant famous for its lunch meals. And that is where I had my first run-in with 'gunpowder'. And to be honest, I hated it.
2020 May 27, Pooja Pillai, “The Back Burner: Homemade molagapodi is easier than you think”, in The Indian Express[3]:In fact, I’ve long suspected that the popularity of gunpowder or molagapodi outside South India has little to do with the burst of flavours it serves.
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- ^ Atul Kochhar (2008) Benares: Michelin Starred Cooking[1]: “29 ― It got its name because it apparently smells similar to the gunpowder used in rifles during the Raj.”