تفنك

• توفنك‎ (tüfenk), تفك‎ (tüfek)

From Old Anatolian Turkish, a Turkic onomatopoeia, Karakhanid [script needed] (tüwek) in Dīwān Luḡāt at-Turk meaning a blowpipe shooting pebbles against birds (imagined as sounding tüf!). Modern cognates include Azerbaijani tüfəng, Turkmen tüpeň and Nogai туьбек (tübek).

• IPA^(key): [tyˈfɛɲc]

تفنك • (tüfenk) (plural تفنكلر‎ (tüfenkler))

1. rifle, fusil, musket, arquebus, tophaike

   ‏كوچك تفنك‎ ― küçük tüfenk ― pistol

   ‏آت تفنگی‎ ― at tüfengi ― pistol

   ‏آو تفنگی‎ ― av tüfengi ― hunting-rifle

   ‏طبنجه تفنگی‎ ― tabanca tüfengi ― rifle with gunlock

   ‏طالیان تفنگی‎ ― dalyan tüfengi ― blunderbuss

   ‏ششخانه ناملیلیو تفنك‎ ― şeşhane namlılü tüfenk ― rifled rifle

   ‏تفنك ناملیسی‎‎ ― tüfenk namlısı ― rifle barrel

   ‏تفنك قونداغی‎‎ ― tüfenk kundağı ― rifle butt

   ‏تفنك قبوری‎‎ ― tüfenk kuburı ― pistol holster

   ‏تفنك فندغی‎‎ ― tüfenk funduğı ― bullet, dot

   ‏تفنك گوله‌سی / نفنك گله‌سی‎‎ ― tüfenk gülesi ― bullet, dot

   ‏تفنگڭ فالیه‌سی‎‎ ― tüfengün falyası ― flash pan; touch hole

   ‏تفنك چبوغی‎‎ ― tüfenk çubuğı ― gun-stick, rod for stuffing the gun with bullets

   ‏تفنك بورغوسی‎‎ ― tüfenk burğusı ― wad-hook, packing-worm, rod for extracting bullets from the gun

   ‏تفنگی قورمق‎‎ ― tüfengi kurmak ― to load the gun, to cock the rifle

   ‏تفنگی طولدرمق‎‎ ― tüfengi doldurmak ― to load the gun, to stuff the rifle

   ‏تفنگی آتمق‎‎ ― tüfengi atmak ― to launch the gun, to shoot the rifle

   ‏تفنگی بوشتمق‎‎ ― tüfengi boşatmak ― to launch the gun, to shoot the rifle, to discharge the musket

   ‏تفنك آتیجی‎‎ ― tüfenk atıcı ― musketeer, rifleman

• تفنكجی‎ (tüfenkçı, “musketeer, rifleman; gunsmith”)
• تفنكلمك‎ (tüfenklemek, “to gun down, to arquebus”)

• Turkish: tüfek, tüfenk, tüvek
• → Arabic: تُفْكَة‎ (tufka), تُفْگَه‎ (tufga)
• → Armenian: թյուֆենկ (tʿyufenk), թյուֆենգ (tʿyufeng)
• → Middle Armenian: թուանկ (tʿuank), դֆանք (dfankʿ), թըւանկ (tʿəwank), թւանկ (tʿwank)
  • Armenian: թվանք (tʿvankʿ), թվանգ (tʿvang), թիվանգ (tʿivang), թիվանք (tʿivankʿ), թրփանգ (tʿrpʿang), թֆակ (tʿfak); թֆանկ (tʿfank), թֆանք (tʿfankʿ), թուֆաք (tʿufakʿ), թուֆանկ (tʿufank), դֆաք (dfakʿ), թֆաք (tʿfakʿ), թըֆակ (tʿəfak), դուֆաք (dufakʿ); թուանք (tʿuankʿ)
• → English: tophaike
• → Greek: τουφέκι (touféki), ντουφέκι (douféki)
• → Khowar: [script needed] (tuvek)
• Kurdish:

  → Northern Kurdish: tifing, tifek, tifeng, tivek, tiving

  → Central Kurdish: تِفەنگ‎ (tifeng)

  → Southern Kurdish: تِفەنگ‎ (tifeng)

• → Ladino: tufenk (“rifle”)
• → Macedonian: туфка (tufka, “rifle”), туфек (tufek, “rifle shot”)
• → Persian: تفنگ‎ (tofang), تفک‎ (tofak)
  • → Bakhtiari: تفنگ‎ (tofang)
  • → Bashkardi:

    Minabi: تفنگ‎ (tofang)

  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: तुफ़ंग (tufaṅg)

    Urdu: تفنگ‎ (tufáng)

  • → Kermanic:

    Abuzeydabadi: tafang

    Abyanehi: tofang

    Hanjani, Yabarana: tefeng

  • → Pashto: تفنگ‎ (tufáng), توپک‎ (topák)
  • → Parachi: تفنگ (tofang)
  • → Yidgha: [script needed] (tûfuk)
• → Crimean Tatar: tüfek
• → Zazaki: tifang

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 19)‎ (in German), volume II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 447
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “تفنك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 387
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “تفنك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 1296–1298
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “تفنك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 573