page_title: Bedil (term)
section_title: List of weapon classified as bedil
hierarchical_section_title: Bedil (term) / List of weapon classified as bedil
caption_attribution_description: English: Ottoman_and_Acehnese_guns_after_the_Dutch_conquest_of_Aceh_in_1874_Illustrated_London_News.
context_page_description: Bedil is a term from Nusantara area of Maritime Southeast Asia which refers to various type of firearms and gunpowder weapon, from small matchlock pistol to large siege guns. The term bedil comes from wedil and wediluppu in Tamil language. In its original form, these words refer to gunpowder blast and saltpeter, respectively. But after being absorbed into bedil in Malay language, and in a number of other cultures in the archipelago, that Tamil vocabulary is used to refer to all types of weapons that use gunpowder. In Javanese and Balinese the term bedil and bedhil is known, in Sundanese the term is bedil, in Batak it is known as bodil, in Makasarese, badili, in Buginese, balili, in Dayak language, badil, in Tagalog, baril, in Bisayan, bádil, in Bikol languages, badil, and Malay people call it badel or bedil.
context_section_description: Below are weapons historically may be referred to as bedil. Full description should be found in their respective pages. It is sorted alphabetically.
caption: Ottoman and Acehnese guns, dismantled following the Dutch conquest of Aceh in 1874.
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