Kalashnikov
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The word Kalashnikov can mean:
- The AK-47 rifle, that means Avtomat Kalashnikova, or another rifle in that series.
- Mikhail Kalashnikov who designed the AK47, and most of the other rifles in the Kalashnikov serie (ak-47, rpk and aksu47).
- The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov, 1837 poem by Mikhail Lermontov
Kalashnikov or Kalachnikov is a common Russian surname. The name literally means "belonging to (= son of) the kalach-man", where kalach is the Russian word for a specific type of twisted white bread. In former times kalach meant any kind of white bread, and came from a Tatar word meaning "to be hungry"; before modern methods of grinding wheat came into use, white bread was classed as a type of fancy bread. In Russian, the sound sequence chn tends to be pronounced as shn: see sandhi.
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