pistola

Borrowed from Spanish pistola.

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• IPA^(key): /pis̺tola/ [pis̺.t̪o.la]
• Rhymes: -ola, -a
• Hyphenation: pis‧to‧la

pistola inan

1. pistol, gun

• “pistola”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “pistola”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pisˈtɔ.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [pisˈtɔ.la]

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pistola f (plural pistoles)

1. pistol; gun

• “pistola”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “pistola”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “pistola” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pistola” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Spanish pistola.

• IPA^(key): /pisˈtola/ [pɪs̪ˈt̪o.l̪ɐ]
• Hyphenation: pis‧to‧la

pistóla (Badlit spelling ᜉᜒᜐ᜔ᜆᜓᜎ)

1. a pistol; a handgun
   • 2018 — Lopez, Herty B. and Arnold Y. Bustamante, Misis Gipatay; Bana Gahikog (29 September), Superbalita

     Pasado alang 9 sa gabii niadtong Biyernes dihang niadto sa balay sa ginikanan ni Gina si Aldrin nga hubog ug adunay dala nga .45 kalibre nga pistola.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   Synonym: pusil

Borrowed from Spanish pistola.

• IPA^(key): /pisˈtola/ [pisˈto.l̪a]
• Hyphenation: pis‧to‧la

pistóla (Basahan spelling ᜉᜒᜐ᜔ᜆᜓᜎ)

1. pistol

   Synonym: badil

Borrowed from French pistole, from Czech píšťala (“firearm”, literally “tube, pipe”).

• IPA^(key): /pisˈtɔ.la/
• Rhymes: -ɔla
• Hyphenation: pi‧stò‧la

pistola f (plural pistole)

1. (weaponry) pistol, handgun
2. pistole

• pistola in Collins Italian-English Dictionary

• IPA^(key): /ˈpis.to.la/
• Rhymes: -istola
• Hyphenation: pì‧sto‧la

pistola f (plural pistole)

1. (dated) alternative form of epistola

• pistola in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• polista, postali, stipola

• pistōlium

Borrowed from Middle French pistole or Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese pistola. The penultimate syllable is long because it carries stress.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɪsˈtoː.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pisˈtɔː.la]

pistōla f (genitive pistōlae); first declension

1. (New Latin) pistol

First-declension noun.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpis.to.lɑ/

pistola

1. genitive plural of pistol

Probably from French pistole, ultimately from Czech píšťala (“firearm”, literally “tube, pipe”), from pištěti (“to whistle”), of imitative origin.

Perhaps, however, from Italian pistolese (“from Pistoia (a city in Tuscany)”).

• Rhymes: -ɔlɐ
• Hyphenation: pis‧to‧la

pistola f (plural pistolas)

1. pistol (handgun)

• → Bengali: পিস্তল (pistol) (see there for further descendants)
• → Gujarati: પિસ્તોલ (pistol)
• → Hindustani: (see there for further descendants)

  Hindi: पिस्तौल (pistaul), पिस्तोल (pistol)

  Urdu: پِسْتَول (pistaul), پسطول (pistol)

• → Sinhalese: පිස්තෝලය (pistōlaya)
• → Swahili: bastola

pistola (invariable)

1. (informal, slang, Brazil) pissed off, mad, aggressively angry

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pistola

1. inflection of pistolar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “pistola”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “pistola” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “pistola”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “pistola”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Spanish pistola.

pistola

1. pistol

• pistola ndaa

• Stewart, Cloyd; Stewart, Ruth D.; colaboradores amuzgos (2000), Diccionario amuzgo de San Pedro Amuzgos, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 44)‎^[1] (in Spanish), Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 141

Borrowed from German Pistole, from Czech píšťala (“firearm”, literally “tube, pipe”).

• IPA^(key): /pisˈtola/ [pisˈt̪o.la]

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• Rhymes: -ola
• Syllabification: pis‧to‧la

pistola f (plural pistolas)

1. pistol, handgun
2. gun (a device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm)

• → Basque: pistola
• → Central Bikol: pistola
• → Cebuano: pistola
• → San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo: pistola
• → Tagalog: pistola
• → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: pi̱stula

• “pistola”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Borrowed from Spanish pistola, from German Pistole, from Czech píšťala.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /pisˈtola/ [pɪsˈt̪oː.lɐ]
• Rhymes: -ola
• Syllabification: pis‧to‧la

pistola (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐ᜔ᜆᜓᜎ)

1. pistol

   Synonym: baril

• “pistola”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “pistola”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

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