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From sub- + machine gun .
submachine gun (plural submachine guns )
A type of short range machine gun that is carried as a personal weapon and uses pistol ammunition .
2007 March 9, Jim Rutenberg, Larry Rohter, “Bush’s South America Tour Incites Fight for Attention”, in The New York Times [1] , →ISSN :Bare-chested children and their parents gathered in doorways, on roofs and in windows as he passed, watched warily by Brazilian troops carrying submachine guns .
short range machine gun
Arabic: بندقية رشاشة , المسدس الرشاش
Armenian: ատրճանակ-գնդացիր ( atrčanak-gndacʻir ) , ԱԳ (hy) ( AG ) , գնդացիր-արտճանակ ( gndacʻir-artčanak ) , ԳԱ (hy) ( GA )
Azerbaijani: pulemyot tapança , pulemyot-tapança
Belarusian: пісталет-кулямёт ( pistaljet-kuljamjót )
Catalan: subfusell
Chinese:
Mandarin: 衝鋒槍 / 冲锋枪 (zh) ( chōngfēngqiāng )
Czech: samopal (cs) m
Danish: maskinpistol (da)
Dutch: machinepistool (nl) , pistoolmitrailleur (nl)
Esperanto: mitraleto
Estonian: püstolkuulipilduja
Finnish: konepistooli (fi)
French: mitraillette (fr) f , pistolet mitrailleur (fr) m , PM (fr) m
German: Maschinenpistole (de) f
Greek: υποπολυβόλο (el) n ( ypopolyvólo )
Hebrew: תת-מקלע
Icelandic: hríðskotabyssa (is) f
Irish: fo-mheaisínghunna m
Italian: mitra (it)
Japanese: 短機関銃 (ja) ( たんきかんじゅう, tankikanjū ) , サブマシンガン ( sabumashingan )
Kazakh: тапанша-пулемет ( tapanşa-pulemet )
Korean: 기관단총 (ko) ( gigwandanchong )
Latvian: mašīnpistole f
Macedonian: автомат ( avtomat )
Manx: fo-vasheengunn m
Persian: مسلسل دستی
Polish: pistolet maszynowy (pl) m , peem m , automat (pl) m , rozpylacz m
Portuguese: submetralhadora f
Russian: автома́т (ru) m ( avtomát ) , пистоле́т-пулемёт (ru) m ( pistolét-pulemjót ) , ПП (ru) ( PP )
Serbo-Croatian: аутомат , машинка
Slovak: samopal (sk) m
Spanish: pistola ametralladora f , metralleta (es) f , subfusil m
Swedish: kulsprutepistol (sv) c , kpist (sv) c
Thai: ปืนกลมือ ( bpʉʉn-gon-mʉʉ )
Turkish: makineli tabanca (tr)
Ukrainian: пістолет-кулемет ( pistolet-kulemet ) , ПК (uk) ( PK )
Uzbek: pistolet-pulemyot