stormgeweer
Dutch
Etymology
From stormen (“to storm, to assault”) + geweer (“long gun, rifle; weapon”), in the sense “assault rifle” a calque of German Sturmgewehr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstɔrm.ɣəˌʋeːr/
- Hyphenation: storm‧ge‧weer
Noun
stormgeweer n (plural stormgeweren)
- assault rifle [from 1940s]
- Synonym: aanvalsgeweer
- (archaic, rare, chiefly Protestantism) any weapon or weaponry used for storming a settlement or fortification [17th - ca. mid 20th c.]