׳אובריז׳

English translation: \"obrez\" (sawed-off shotgun in Russian)

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Hebrew term or phrase:׳אובריז׳
English translation:\"obrez\" (sawed-off shotgun in Russian)
Entered by: Mary Jane Shubow

06:53 Apr 12, 2012
Hebrew to English translations [PRO]
History / memoirs of a partisan
Hebrew term or phrase: ׳אובריז׳
The narrator has survived the first massacres in the town and is planning to join the partisans. He and a friend are going around and buying all kinds of weapons to take with them into the forest with the partisans.

דפקנו על דלת ביתו של איכר עני וקנינו אצלו ׳אובריז׳, כלומר רובה קצוץ־קנה ואקדח

Does anyone know what ׳אובריז׳ refers to?

Thanks
Mary Jane Shubow
United States
Local time: 08:56
sawed-off gun
Explanation:
The Russian word "obrez" (обрез) is used here, it means a sawed-off gun
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Irina Levchenko
Local time: 17:56
Grading comment
Thanks a lot!
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sawed-off gun


Explanation:
The Russian word "obrez" (обрез) is used here, it means a sawed-off gun

Irina Levchenko
Local time: 17:56
Native speaker of: Native in UkrainianUkrainian, Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thanks a lot!
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks! I know that the Hebrew רובה קצוץ־קנה means sawed-off shotgun, but what I needed, was how to write the foreign (in this case Russian) word in English letters, so "obrez" solves that for me!


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agree  Gad Kohenov: Sawed-off shotgun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawed-off_shotgun)
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