Noun
bow and arrow (plural bows and arrows)
- A weapon consisting of a bow and a supply of arrows, often kept in a quiver.
2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.
Translations
weapon
- Afrikaans: pyl en boog
- Arabic: قَوْس وَسَهْم (qaws wasahm)
- Armenian: նետ ու աղեղ (net u aġeġ)
- Basque: please add this translation if you can
- Bislama: bonara
- Cherokee: ᎦᏦᏗ ᎠᎴ ᎫᏂ (gatsodi ale guni)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 弓箭 (zh) (gōngjiàn), 弓矢 (zh) (gōngshǐ) (literary)
- Classical Nahuatl: please add this translation if you can
- Czech: luk a šíp
- Danish: pil og bue
- Dutch: pijl en boog
- Esperanto: pafarko kaj sago
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: jousi ja nuoli
- French: arc et flèche
- Georgian: მშვილდ-ისარი (ka) (mšvild-isari)
- German: Pfeil und Bogen (de)
- Hebrew: חץ וקשת (he)
- Hungarian: íj és nyíl
- Irish: saighead agus bogha
- Italian: arco e freccia
- Japanese: 弓矢 (ja) (yumiya), 弓箭 (ja) (きゅうせん, kyūsen)
- Khmer: ធ្នូ (km) (tnuu)
- Korean: 궁전 (ko) (gungjeon)
- Latin: arcus et sagitta
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Malayalam: അമ്പും വില്ലും (ampuṁ villuṁ)
- Mongolian: нум сум (num sum)
- Navajo: ałtį́į́ dóó kʼaaʼ
- Norwegian: pil og bue
- Ojibwe: mitigwaab miinawaa bikwak
- Persian: تیر و کمان (tir-o-kamân)
- Polish: łuk i strzała
- Portuguese: arco e flecha (pt)
- Russian: лук и стре́лы (luk i strély)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: лук и стрела, лук и стријела
- Roman: luk i strela, luk i strijela
- Spanish: arco y flecha
- Swedish: pil och båge
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Tibetan: མདའ་གཞུ (mda' gzhu)
- Turkish: yay ve ok
- Tuvan: ча болгаш согун (ça bolgaş sogun)
- Vietnamese: cung tên
- Welsh: bwa saeth
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