The story
- Russian · borrowed fromАК-47
- English todayAK-47
Borrowed from Russian АК-47 (AK-47), shortened from автома́т Кала́шникова 1947 (avtomát Kalášnikova 1947) (Kalashnikov's automatic rifle), from the name of the designer Mikhail Kalashnikov.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.