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Tofang

What are the Persian names for various types of guns/handguns? (not necessarily in the image above). Well we can start from old words and expressions like: loolehbaarouty, tapaancheh, toopdasty, haftlool, sheeshlool...taklool; wich before the revolution it was called "shahkosh"(poor king, man!)and tirandaaz (not meaning the shooter but rather the object itself). More modern Persian words would be: tofang, haftir, asslaheh(garm), mossalssal, kolt or koltkamary and revolver(in Persian pronounciation). After the stupid revolution everybody became a "commando" and they became more pro then the army and names like "jeh-seh"(toopdasty like the Iraqis called it during the war), "klush", Uzi, and lots that I can just keep on naming more and more, mostly expressions and names for weapons during the war! Oh yeah, I almost forgot the "revolutionaries" (sepaahi), they call all of their weapons "naamouss"!�
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Also Nader wrote:

1) Tofang 2) Haftir 3) Tapanche 4) Aslahe 5) Do Lool 6) Mosalsal 7) Aslahe Shekari 8) Aslahe Kamari 9) Sar Porkon (old style rifle) 10) Fil kosh (Magnum) 11) Tofange Zamin Be Hava 12) Tofange Hava Be Zamin 13) Tofang badi 14) Shish Lool 15) Kelash (Kaloshinkov!) 16) Em Yek (M1) 17) Oozee (Uzi Submachine gun) 18) Pisstool (Pistole) 19) Aslahe Dasti 20) Tofange Doorbini 21) Seda Khafe Kon 22) Tofange Otomatik 23) Tofang Sach-me-ei 24) Tofang Pelastiki:-)�

Also Lotfali Zand wrote:

Tapancheh
Haft-tir
Dah-tir
shih-lool
Aslaheh-kamari
Selah e Atashin
Tofang
Tofang shekari
Tofang Chakhmaghi
Tofang Do-lool
Chahar pareh zan
Mosalsal
mosalsal dasti
mosalsal sangin

Names taken from other languages:

Berno
Berno Koochak
Colt(mainly used for selah kamari no matter what make)
Roovolver (revolver)

07-Jun-2008
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