Question 1

What is the plural of the French word "pistole"?

Accepted Answer

pistoles

Question 2

What does the French word "pistole" mean?

Accepted Answer

Pistol.
Spanish gold coin.
Former unit of account in popular use.
Money; currency.
Small dried fruit, a kind of plum without a stone, flattened, round and golden yellow.
It was said, in prisons, of various housing and food amenities that prisoners obtained by paying.

Question 3

What is the etymology of thr French word "pistole"?

Accepted Answer

borrowed from German Pistole («short portable firearm») and further back, from Czech píšťala («by analogy of shape with the original and still current meaning of «whistle, flute»).

pistole

Syllable Decomposition

Etymology

Definitions

Plural

See also