bayonet

bayonet

English

Etymology

From French baïonnette, named after the French town of Bayonne, where the plug bayonet was invented.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbeɪənɪt/, /ˈbeɪənɛt/, /ˌbeɪəˈnɛt/

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• (General American) enPR: bā'ə-nĕtʹ, bāʹə-nĭt, bāʹə-nĕt', IPA^(key): /ˌbeɪəˈnɛt/, /ˈbeɪənɪ̈t/, /ˈbeɪəˌnɛt/
• (dialectal, obsolete) IPA^(key): /ˈbæɡənɛt/, /ˈbæɡənət/ (see baggonet)[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛt, -eɪənɪt, -eɪənət

Noun

bayonet (plural bayonets)

1. (military) A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offence and defence. Originally, the bayonet was made with a handle, which needed to be fitted into the bore of the musket after the soldier had fired.
   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page xvi:

     Fig. 3. Its bayonet, to be fixed by sticking the handle into the muzzle of the musquet.

   • 1997, Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, transl., The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; republished New York: Vintage Books, 1998, →ISBN, page 515:

     “Well, the proper way to kill a man with a bayonet is this: First you thrust it in under the ribs—here.”

2. (engineering) A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery.

Derived terms

• bayonet charge
• bayonet clutch
• Bayonet Constitution
• bayonet joint
• knife bayonet
• Spanish bayonet
• spike bayonet
• sword bayonet

 

Translations

weapon

Akan: please add this translation if you can Albanian: bajonetë (sq), kacaturrë (sq), kacaturr Amharic: please add this translation if you can Arabic: حَرْبَة‎ f (ḥarba), سُونْكِيّ‎ m (sunkiyy) Armenian: սվին (hy) (svin) Assamese: please add this translation if you can Azerbaijani: süngü (az) Belarusian: багне́т m (bahnjét) Bengali: সঙ্গীন (sôṅgīn), সঙ্গিন (sôṅgin) Bulgarian: щик (bg) m (štik), байоне́т (bg) m (bajonét) Catalan: baioneta (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 刺刀 (zh) (cìdāo) Czech: bajonet (cs) m, bodák m Danish: bajonet c Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can Dutch: bajonet (nl) f Esperanto: bajoneto Estonian: tääk (et) Finnish: pistin (fi) French: baïonnette (fr) f Fula: please add this translation if you can Georgian: ხიშტი (xišṭi) German: Bajonett (de) n Greek: ξιφολόγχη (el) f (xifolónchi) Gujarati: સંગીન (saṅgīn) Hebrew: כִּידוֹן רוֹבֶה‎ f (kidon rové) Hindi: संगीन (hi) f (saṅgīn) Hungarian: szurony (hu), bajonett (hu) Icelandic: byssustingur m Ido: bayoneto (io) Igbo: please add this translation if you can Indonesian: sangkur (id) Italian: baionetta (it) f Japanese: 銃剣 (ja) (じゅうけん, jūken), バヨネット (bayonetto) Kazakh: найза (naiza), сүңгі (süñgı), ұштық (ūştyq) Korean: 총검(銃劍) (ko) (chonggeom) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: nize (ku), singû (ku), bayonet (ku) Kyrgyz: штык (ky) (ştık), найза (ky) (nayza) Latvian: durklis m Lithuanian: durtuvas m Macedonian: бајонет m (bajonet) Malayalam: please add this translation if you can Manx: cliwe-gunney m Maori: pēneti Norman: baïonnette f Norwegian: bajonett (no) Ottoman Turkish: سونگو‎ (süngü), سنگو‎ (süngü), سونگی‎ (süngü) Persian: سرنیزه‎ (fa) (sarnize) Polish: bagnet (pl) m Portuguese: baioneta (pt) f Romanian: baionetă (ro) f Russian: штык (ru) m (štyk), багине́т (ru) m (baginét) (dated or older variety) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: бајонет m, бајунет m, бајунета f Roman: bajonet (sh) m, bajunet (sh) m, bajuneta f Slovak: bajonet m, bodák m Slovene: bajonet (sl) m Spanish: bayoneta (es) f Somali: please add this translation if you can Swahili: singe (sw) Swedish: bajonett (sv) c Tajik: найза (tg) (nayza) Tamil: please add this translation if you can Telugu: please add this translation if you can Thai: ดาบปลายปืน (dàap-bplaai-bpʉʉn) Tigrinya: please add this translation if you can Turkish: süngü (tr), bayonet (tr), kasatura (tr) Turkmen: süngü Ukrainian: багне́т (uk) m (bahnét) Urdu: سنگین‎ f (sangīn) Uzbek: shtik (uz), nayza (uz) Vietnamese: lưỡi lê (vi) Welsh: bidog m or f Wolof: please add this translation if you can Yakut: ыстыык (ıstıık) Yoruba: please add this translation if you can

pin

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Dutch: please add this translation if you can Finnish: tappi (fi)

See also

• knife
• spear
• sword

Verb

bayonet (third-person singular simple present bayonets, present participle bayoneting or bayonetting, simple past and past participle bayoneted or bayonetted)

1. (transitive) To stab with a bayonet.
2. (transitive) To compel or drive by the bayonet.
   • 1774 April 19, Edmund Burke, Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. on American Taxation, April 19, 1774, 2nd edition, London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], published 1775, OCLC 873432945:

     to bayonet us into a submission

Usage notes

The spelling bayoneting and bayoneted are preferred in the US, while bayonetting and bayonetted are preferred in the UK.

References

1. Bingham, Caleb (1808), “Improprieties in Pronunciation, common among the people of New-England”, in The Child's Companion; Being a Conciſe Spelling-book […] ‎, 12th edition, Boston: Manning & Loring, OCLC 671561968, page 74.

Anagrams

• Oytaben

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch bajonet, from French baïonnette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [baˈjonɛt]
• Hyphenation: ba‧yo‧nèt

Noun

bayonet (first-person possessive bayonetku, second-person possessive bayonetmu, third-person possessive bayonetnya)

1. bayonet,
   1. (military) a pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offence and defence. Originally, the bayonet was made with a handle, which needed to be fitted into the bore of the musket after the soldier had fired.
   2. (engineering) a pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery.

Further reading

• “bayonet” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.