Kalashnikov

'Kalashnikov' is commonly used to refer to a type of rifle:

Rifles

AK-47, or another rifle in that series
AK-74

People

Mikhail Kalashnikov (born 1919), Russian small arms designer
Maxim Kalashnikov (born 1966), pen name of a Russian writer and political activist

Creative works

The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov, poem by Mikhail Lermontov
The Merchant Kalashnikov, opera by Anton Rubinstein, based on Lermontov's poem
Song About the Merchant Kalashnikov (film), a 1909 Russian film by Vasily Goncharov, based on Lermontov's poem
Kalasnjikov a song from the soundtrack to Emir Kusturica's film Underground

Others

Kalashnikov (band), Italian punk band
The Kalashnikov Variation, a chess variation

Etymology

It represents Russian Калашников, a sandhi alteration of earlier Калачников, which literally means "belonging to (usually "son of" or "place of") a man who made a type of Russian fancy bread called kalach", i.e., "kalach-maker's son".

Translation

The word "Kalashnikov" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Dutch, Portuguese.

Translation(s) in other languages: Arabic: كلاشنكوف (توضيح), German: Kalaschnikow, French: Kalachnikov (homonymie), Italian: Kalašnikov, Lithuanian: Kalašnikovas, Hungarian: Kalasnyikov, Japanese: カラシニコフ, Russian: Калашников, Serbian: Калашњиков, Serbo-Croatian: Kalašnjikov, Turkish: Kalaşnikof.