machine gun

See also: machinegun and machine-gun

English

A machine gun.

Noun

machine gun (plural machine guns)

1. A type of fully automatic firearm that fires bullets in rapid succession by a single action of the trigger and is capable of sustained fire.
   • 1974, “I'm Gonna Get You”, performed by Eleanore Mills:

     I'm gonna get you, baby / Like a machine gun, I'm gonna… Tak-Tak-Tak-Tak-Tak

   • 2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist‎^[1], 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.

   • 2016 December 23, Lam Yik Fei, “World - Image”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-19‎^[3]:

     Brigadier John K. Lawson's bunker on the west side of Wong Nai Chung Gap that the West Brigade used as headquarters. Brigadier Lawson and three of his men were hit by machine-gun fire escaping from the bunker on Dec. 19, 1941.

Derived terms

• heavy machine gun
• light machine gun
• machine carbine
• machine pistol
• machine rifle
• medium machine gun
• submachine gun

 

Translations

type of firearm

• Albanian: mitraloz (sq) m, mitroloz m, automatik (sq) m
• Arabic: رَشَاش m pl (rašāš), مِتْرالِيُوز m (mitrāliyōz)

  Egyptian Arabic: متريوز m (mitrāyōz)

• Armenian: գնդացիր (hy) (gndacʻir)
• Azerbaijani: avtomat (az), pulemyot, qurşunsaçar
• Belarusian: аўтама́т m (aŭtamát), кулямёт m (kuljamjót)
• Bengali: যন্ত্রচালিত গান (jontrocalito gan), মেশিন গান (meśin gan)
• Bulgarian: карте́чница (bg) f (kartéčnica)
• Burmese: စက်သေနတ် (my) (caksenat)
• Catalan: metralladora f
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 機關槍 / 机关枪 (gei¹ gwaan¹ coeng¹)

  Mandarin: 機槍 / 机枪 (zh) (jīqiāng), 機關槍 / 机关枪 (zh) (jīguānqiāng)

• Chukchi: пэгԓяръо (pėgḷjarʺo)
• Chuvash: автомат (avtomat)
• Czech: kulomet (cs) m
• Danish: maskingevær (da) n
• Dutch: mitrailleur (nl) m
• Esperanto: mitralo, maŝinpafilo
• Estonian: kuulipilduja
• Faroese: maskinbyrsa f
• Finnish: konekivääri (fi), kk (fi), kuularuisku (fi) (dated)
• French: mitrailleuse (fr) f
• Georgian: პულიმიოტი (ṗulimioṭi), ტყვიამფრქვევი (ṭq̇viamprkvevi)
• German: Maschinengewehr (de) n, MG (de) n
• Greek: πολυβόλο (el) n (polyvólo)
• Hebrew: מַקְלֵעַ (he) m (maklea')
• Hindi: मशीन गन f (maśīn gan)
• Hungarian: gépfegyver (hu), géppuska (hu)
• Icelandic: vélbyssa (is) f
• Ido: mitralioso (io)
• Indonesian: senapan mesin (id)
• Irish: meaisínghunna m
• Italian: mitragliatrice (it) f
• Japanese: 機関銃 (ja) (きかんじゅう, kikanjū), マシンガン (ja) (mashingan), 機銃 (ja) (きじゅう, kijū)
• Kazakh: автомат (avtomat), пулемёт (pulemet)
• Khmer: កាំភ្លើងយន្ត (kampləəng yŭən)
• Korean: 기관총(機關銃) (ko) (gigwanchong), 기총(機銃) (gichong)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ڕێژِنگ (rêjing)

  Northern Kurdish: mîtralyoz (ku)

• Kyrgyz: автомат (ky) (avtomat), пулемёт (pulemyot), окыргыткыч (okırgıtkıc)
• Lao: ປືນກົນ (pư̄n kon)
• Latin: arma machinae f or f pl
• Latvian: ložmetējs (lv) m
• Lithuanian: kulkosvaidis m
• Macedonian: митрале́з m (mitraléz)
• Malay: mesingan
• Manx: gunn jeshaght m
• Maori: pū mīhini
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: пулемёт (mn) (pulemjot)

• Navajo: beeʼeldǫǫh tʼáá bíniʼdii bikʼa ádiih yiyiinííłígíí
• Nogai: окшашар (okşaşar)
• Norman: fûsi-machinne m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: maskingevær n

  Nynorsk: maskingevær n

• Ottoman Turkish: مترالیوز (mitralyöz)
• Pashto: ماشينګن m (māšingan)
• Persian: مسلسل (fa) (mosalsal), تیربار (fa) (tirbâr), ماشیندار (mâšindâr) (Dari)
• Pohnpeian: kikansu
• Polish: karabin maszynowy (pl) m, kaem (pl) m, kulomiot (pl) m
• Portuguese: metralhadora (pt) f
• Romanian: mitralieră (ro) f
• Russian: автома́т (ru) m (avtomát), пулемёт (ru) m (pulemjót)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: митра̀ље̄з m, стро́јница f

  Roman: mitràljēz (sh) m strójnica (sh) f

• Slovak: guľomet m
• Slovene: mitraljez (sl) m, strojnica (sl) f
• Southern Altai: пулемёт (pulemyot)
• Spanish: ametralladora (es) f
• Swahili: bombomu
• Swedish: kulspruta (sv) c, maskingevär (sv) n (Finland)
• Tagalog: ulipaltog, ametralyadora, masinggan
• Tajik: автомат (tg) (avtomat), пулемёт (pulemyot)
• Tatar: уксибәр (uqsibär)
• Thai: ปืนกล (th) (bpʉʉn-gon)
• Tibetan: མེ་མདའ་སྦག་སྦག (me mda' sbag sbag)
• Turkish: makineli tüfek (tr), mitralyöz (tr)
• Turkmen: awtomat (tk), pulemýot
• Ukrainian: автома́т (uk) m (avtomát), кулеме́т m (kulemét)
• Urdu: مشین گن f (maśīn gan)
• Uyghur: ئاپتومات (aptomat), پىلىموت (pilimot)
• Uzbek: avtomat (uz), pulemyot (uz)
• Vietnamese: súng máy (vi), súng liên thanh
• Welsh: dryll peiriannol m, gwn peiriant m
• Yakut: аптамаат (aptamaat)
• Yiddish: אויטאָמאַט m (oytomat), אַװטאָמאַט m (avtomat), קוילן־וואַרפֿער m (koyln-varfer), מאַשינביקס f (mashinbiks)

See also

• chain gun