In the US kids say, “Bang, bang”. I saw a French comic book once and I’m pretty sure they said, “Flan, flan”. Modern kids say,“Pew, pew” for laser sounds.
That would be “Pan ! Pan !”, I think.
Nope.
“Pan Pan” it is.
Flan is that:
https://www.chefclub.tv/fr/recettes/daily/c58c4a74-4658-491a-9a35-b3d4996b570e/flan-pâtissier-sans-pâte-ou-comment-se-faire-plaisir-avec-un-dessert-simple-sain-et-avec-peu-dingrédients/
That’s what firearms are called in YouTube videos to avoid getting demonized.
I don’t know Spanish very well but I seem to remember that they
use ¡Pum! or ¡Zas! for the sound of a gunshot or an explosion.
In Chinese, it all seems to depend on the individual person, but I’ve heard a lot of “pya pya pya” being used as the sound to imitate a gunshot.
It used to be “Púm” in spanish, but apparently it was obsolete in the late 60’s, replaced with “Bang” (a clear case of U.S. cultural imperialism!)
What happened to rat-a-tat tat?
Not exactly an answer to the OP but I’ve read a couple of accounts that say kids who grew in war zones use a different, more realistic, sound for pretend gunshots when playing. More like “thhhwack” IIRC
I think that’s for door knocking(?) My first thought was that it’s from the old gangster days to mean machine guns but maybe I’m conflating it with the line “you dirty rat”.
When I was a kid (50 years ago) we said “peng, peng”, but I could imagine that German kids today have adapted “bang, bang”.
Japanese say “ban, ban”.
That was for the Thompson machine gun. I think it was only for written works as I don’t remember anyone actually saying it.
I like the sound of a Metal Storm on full tilt - around a million rounds a minute. Just a big, “Briiiiip”. Forward to the one minute mark: