Bill was careless in handling his pistol.
Source: tatoeba (34597)
Pistol
//ˈpɪstəl//
Synonyms for "pistol" (80 found)
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More general
7 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesat location
4 entriescapable of
3 entriescoordinate
9 entriesderived
41 entriesShowing 16 of 41 words.
has context
2 entrieshas property
2 entriesis a
5 entriesrelated to
24 entriesShowing 16 of 24 words.
used for
46 entriesShowing 16 of 46 words.
Translations
149 translations across 94 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- pistoletë noun (handgun)
Amharic
1 entries- ሽጉጥ noun (handgun)
Arabic
4 entries- طَبَنْجَة noun (handgun)
- غَدَّارَة noun (handgun)
- فَرْد noun (handgun)
- فَرْد noun (handgun)
Armenian
1 entries- ատրճանակ noun (handgun)
Avar
1 entries- таманча noun (handgun)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- pistolet noun (handgun)
- tapança noun (handgun)
Belarusian
1 entries- пістале́т noun (handgun)
Bengali
1 entries- পিস্তল noun (handgun)
Betawi
1 entries- bècèng noun (handgun)
Bulgarian
1 entries- пистоле́т noun (handgun)
Burmese
1 entries- သေနတ် noun (handgun)
Catalan
1 entries- pistola noun (handgun)
Chechen
1 entries- тапча noun (handgun)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎦᎶᏇ noun (handgun)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 手槍 /手枪 noun (handgun)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 手槍 /手枪 noun (handgun)
Czech
1 entries- pistole noun (handgun)
Danish
1 entries- pistol noun (handgun)
Dari
1 entries- تُفَنْگْچَه noun (handgun)
Dutch
2 entries- opdondertje noun (lively, bright small boy)
- pistool noun (handgun)
Esperanto
1 entries- pistolo noun (handgun)
Estonian
1 entries- püstol noun (handgun)
Finnish
2 entries- pistooli noun (handgun)
- veitikka noun (lively, bright small boy)
French
1 entries- pistolet noun (handgun)
Georgian
2 entries- დამბაჩა noun (handgun)
- პისტოლეტი noun (handgun)
German
3 entries- Faustfeuerwaffe noun (handgun)
- Pistole noun (handgun)
- Zündpistole noun (the mechanical component of a fuse)
Greek
1 entries- πιστόλι noun (handgun)
Gujarati
2 entries- તમંચો noun (handgun)
- પિસ્તોલ noun (handgun)
Hebrew
1 entries- אֶקְדָח noun (handgun)
Hindi
4 entries- तमंचा noun (handgun)
- पिस्तौल noun (handgun)
- बंदूक noun (handgun)
- बंदूक़ noun (handgun)
Hungarian
1 entries- pisztoly noun (handgun)
Icelandic
1 entries- skammbyssa noun (handgun)
Ido
1 entries- pistolo noun (handgun)
Indonesian
1 entries- pistol noun (handgun)
Ingrian
1 entries- pistoletti noun (handgun)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- تَمَنْچِه noun (handgun)
- تَپانْچِه noun (handgun)
Irish
1 entries- piostal noun (handgun)
Italian
1 entries- pistola noun (handgun)
Japanese
4 entries- ピストル noun (handgun)
- 弾き noun (handgun)
- 手筒 noun (handgun)
- 拳銃 noun (handgun)
Kazakh
2 entries- пистолет noun (handgun)
- тапанша noun (handgun)
Khmer
2 entries- កាំភ្លើងខ្លី noun (handgun)
- កាំភ្លើងដៃ noun (handgun)
Kikuyu
1 entries- mũcinga noun (handgun)
Korean
2 entries- 권총 noun (handgun)
- 피스톨 noun (handgun)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- пистолет noun (handgun)
- тапанча noun (handgun)
Lao
2 entries- ປືນພົກ noun (handgun)
- ປືນສັ້ນ noun (handgun)
Latin
4 entries- pistōla noun (handgun)
- pistōlettus (unadapted) noun (handgun)
- pistōlium noun (handgun)
- sclopētus brevior noun (handgun)
Latvian
1 entries- pistole noun (handgun)
Lezgi
1 entries- тапанчи noun (handgun)
Lithuanian
1 entries- pistoletas noun (handgun)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Pistoul noun (handgun)
Macedonian
1 entries- пиштол noun (handgun)
Malay
1 entries- pistol noun (handgun)
Mongolian
1 entries- гар буу noun (handgun)
Māori
2 entries- kope noun (handgun)
- pītara noun (handgun)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- pistol noun (handgun)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- pistol noun (handgun)
Occitan
1 entries- pistolet noun (handgun)
Odia
1 entries- ପିସ୍ତଲ noun (handgun)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- طبانجه noun (handgun)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- пиштоль noun (handgun)
Pashto
4 entries- تفنګچه noun (handgun)
- تمانچه noun (handgun)
- تومانچه noun (handgun)
- توپنچه noun (handgun)
Polish
1 entries- pistolet noun (handgun)
Portuguese
1 entries- pistola noun (handgun)
Quechua
1 entries- maki illapa noun (handgun)
Romanian
1 entries- pistol noun (handgun)
Russian
3 entries- пистоле́т noun (handgun)
- постре́л noun (lively, bright small boy)
- пу́шка noun (handgun)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- daga noun (handgun)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- pìštōlj noun (handgun)
- pùcāljka noun (handgun)
- sȁmokrēs noun (handgun)
- пу̀ца̄љка noun (handgun)
Sinhalese
1 entries- පිස්තෝලය noun (handgun)
Slovak
1 entries- pištoľ noun (handgun)
Slovene
1 entries- pištola noun (handgun)
Spanish
3 entries- charpe noun (handgun)
- pistola noun (handgun)
- pistola noun (the mechanical component of a fuse)
Swahili
2 entries- bastola noun (handgun)
- bastola noun (the mechanical component of a fuse)
Swedish
1 entries- pistol noun (handgun)
Tajik
3 entries- пистолет noun (handgun)
- таппонча noun (handgun)
- туфангча noun (handgun)
Tamil
2 entries- துப்பாக்கி noun (handgun)
- பிஸ்டல் noun (handgun)
Tarifit
1 entries- azidan noun (handgun)
Tatar
1 entries- пистолет noun (handgun)
Telugu
1 entries- పిస్టల్ noun (handgun)
Thai
2 entries- ปืนพก noun (handgun)
- ปืนสั้น noun (handgun)
Tibetan
1 entries- པི་སི་ཏོབ noun (handgun)
Tigrinya
1 entries- ሽጉጥ noun (handgun)
Turkish
1 entries- tabanca noun (handgun)
Turkmen
3 entries- pistolet noun (handgun)
- pistolýet noun (handgun)
- sapança noun (handgun)
Ukrainian
1 entries- пістоле́т noun (handgun)
Unami
1 entries- tèthakètik noun (handgun)
Urdu
4 entries- بَنْدُوق noun (handgun)
- تَمَنْچَہ noun (handgun)
- تَپَنْچَہ noun (handgun)
- پِسْتَول noun (handgun)
Uyghur
1 entries- تاپانچا noun (handgun)
Uzbek
2 entries- pistolet noun (handgun)
- toʻpponcha noun (handgun)
Vietnamese
2 entries- súng lục noun (handgun)
- súng ngắn noun (handgun)
Walloon
1 entries- pistolet noun (handgun)
Welsh
1 entries- pistol noun (handgun)
Written Oirat
1 entries- ᡌᡅᠰᡐᡆᠯ noun (handgun)
Yiddish
2 entries- נאַגאַן noun (handgun)
- פּיסטויל noun (handgun)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
A pistol bullet went clean through his leg.
Source: tatoeba (34780)
The police officer pointed his pistol at the criminal, who, in turn, held his pistol directly pointed at the officer. Neither had the advantage, the position was a stalemate.
Source: tatoeba (238142)
He was careless in handling his pistol.
Source: tatoeba (292509)
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