machine gun

See also: machinegun and machine-gun

English

A machine gun.

Noun

machine gun (plural machine guns)

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.
- 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.

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) (gndacʿir)
Azerbaijani: avtomat (az), pulemyot
Belarusian: аўтама́т m (aŭtamát), кулямёт m (kuljamjót)
Bengali: যন্ত্রচালিত গান (ĵôntrôcalit‌ô 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)
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 (okırgıtkıç)
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, automat (pl) m (dated, colloquial)
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
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)