pistola.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
pistola.
Principal English Translation: 

a pistol
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

Eyntin españoles. de la guardia yehuantin quinpixtihuia in forҫados la china (...) Epohuallonmatlactli in quinchololtito tepetitech tlecoque in forҫados. auh ce tlacatl tepixtihuia de la guardia quimictitehuaque. yhuan ce tehuicac in tepixtihuia (...) nican mexico onpeuhque oyahque onpohuallonmatlactli soldadostin tiacahuan (...) intla mocuecuetzozque niman ompa tepuztlahuitoltica pistoletetica quinmiminazque quinmictizque. yhuan caxtolpohualli macehualtin tlaminani quinhuicaque quimantiquizque ohtlipan in quinpalehuizque Joldadostin in quinmiminazque quinmictizque in forҫados choloque = three Spanish guards who had been going along guarding those condemned to forced labor [forzados] in the Philippines (...) let 70 of those condemned to forced labor get away and climb the mountains, and they left dead one guard who went along guarding them, and one who was guarding they took along (...) 50 soldiers, warriors, set out from and left Mexico here (...) they were to shoot and kill them with a metal crossbow, that is, with a pistol. And they took along 300 commoners who were archers; they took them along on the road to help the soldiers, to shoot and kill the condemned to labor who had fled (central Mexico, 1615)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 296-7.