bundook

Meaning

Noun

• A service-issue rifle.

Origin

• From Hindi बन्दूक ("gun"), from Arabic بُنْدُقِيَّة ("rifle, gun"). The original Arabic was بُنْدُق and denoted filberts, nuts shaped like the projectiles thrown from stone bows. That usage was transferred to the bows themselves. Later it was transferred from bows to firearms.