Mauser

Named after the original designers, Wilhelm and Paul Mauser.

Mauser (plural Mausers)

1. Any of the firearms made or designed by the German company Mauser, notably automatic pistols and bolt action rifles.
   • 2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 101:

     The war has begun, confrontations are escalating across the region, and all his men own are old Mausers.

• Maseru, Semrau, amuser

From Middle High German mūze, from Old High German mūzōn (“change, transform”), from Medieval Latin muta, from Latin mutare (“change, transform”).

• IPA^(key): [maʊ̯zɐ]
• Hyphenation: Mau‧ser

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1. moult (the process in which a bird’s plumage renews).

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• mausern (“to undergo moult”)

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1. a surname

• “Mauser” in Duden online
• "mūze" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)