arma

Aragonese

Etymology

From Late Latin arma (“weapon”), from Latin arma (“defensive arms”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾma/
• Rhymes: -aɾma
• Syllabification: ar‧ma

Noun

arma f (plural armas)

1. weapon

References

• “arma”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)
• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “arma”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Asturian

Etymology

From Late Latin arma (“weapon”), from Latin arma (“defensive arms”).

Noun

arma f (plural armes)

1. weapon

Derived terms

• arma blanca
• arma de fueu

Related terms

• armar

Basque

Etymology

Compare Spanish arma.

Pronunciation

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Noun

arma inan

1. weapon

Declension

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

• Audio (Catalonia)

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Etymology 1

Inherited from Late Latin arma (“weapon”), from Latin arma (“defensive arms”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join”).

Noun

arma f (plural armes)

1. weapon

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

arma

1. inflection of armar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “arma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “arma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “arma” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “arma” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ma/

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Verb

arma

1. third-person singular past historic of armer

Anagrams

• rama

Fula

Particle

arma

1. (Literary) forms the future tense

References

• Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese arma, from Late Latin arma (“weapon”), from Latin arma (“defensive arms”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

arma f (plural armas)

1. weapon, arm

Derived terms

• arma branca
• arma de fogo

Related terms

References

• “arma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “arma” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “arma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “arma” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “arma” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Gallurese

Pronunciation

• (La Maddalena) IPA^(key): /ˈarma/

Noun

arma f (plural armi)

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of alma (“weapon”)

References

Gothic

Romanization

arma

1. Romanization of 𐌰𐍂𐌼𐌰

Icelandic

Noun

arma

1. indefinite accusative plural of armur
2. indefinite genitive plural of armur

Interlingua

Noun

arma (plural armas)

1. weapon, arm

Related terms

• armea

Irish

Noun

arma

1. inflection of arm:
   1. vocative plural
   2. (archaic) nominative plural

Mutation

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈar.ma/
• Rhymes: -arma
• Hyphenation: àr‧ma

Etymology 1

From Late Latin arma (“weapon”), from Latin arma (“defensive arms, weapons of war, war, defense, tools”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join”).

Noun

arma f (plural armi or (archaic or poetic) arme)

1. weapon, arms
2. (military) arm, force

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

arma

1. inflection of armare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• amar, marà, rama

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join”). armentum is an independent derivation from the same root, as if from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-mn̥-tom. Cognates include Sanskrit ऋत (ṛtá, “order; right; agreement etc.”) and अरम् (áram, “fitting”), Ancient Greek ἀραρίσκω (ararískō, “to fit together”) and Old Armenian արարի (arari, “I made”).

Semantic development was "that what is fitted together" → "tools" → "weapons". Also related to ars, artus, rītus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ma/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ma/,

Noun

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arma

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arma n pl (genitive armōrum); second declension

(plural only)

1. arms, weapons of war, weaponry (implements of warfare)

   Hypernym: tēla (“offensive weapons”)

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 29.4.2.3:

     mūnīre urbem, frūmentum convehere, tēla arma parāre

     to strengthen the defences of the city, to accumulate stores of corn, to prepare a supply of missiles and arms

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.393–394:

     respicit intereā clāvam spoliumque leōnis,
     ‘vir’ que ait ‘hīs armīs, armaque digna virō!’

     Meanwhile, looks at the club and the spoils of the lion, and says, “Man for these arms, and arms worthy for the man!”
     (The centaur Chiron addresses Hercules who has slain the Nemean lion in close combat.)

   • 1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 2, line 13:

     Arma propriē dīcuntur ab armīs, id est humerīs, dēpendentia, ut scūtum, gladius, pūgiō, sīca; ut ea, quibus procul proeliāmur, tēla.

     'Arma' 'weapons' are, properly speaking, that thich hangs from the 'armi', that is 'shoulders,' such as the shield, sword, dirk, dagger; and such as that using which we fight at a distance, missiles.

   1. defensive arms: armour, shields (etc.)
   2. close-quarter weapons (offensive or defensive)

      Antonym: tēla (“missiles”)

   3. (poetic) missile weapons

      Synonym: tēla

2. (metonymically) military action, war (arms as instruments of policy)
3. (abstract or concrete) warfare, battle (military exploits)
4. (metonymically) troops, military forces, the army
5. weapons as means of defence
6. (by extension) tools, equipment

   Synonym: armāmenta

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Nominative plural → feminine singular transfer common during the period.

Noun

arma f (genitive armae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) a piece of weaponry

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 54
• “arma” on page 187 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

Further reading

• "arma", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• arma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈar.ma/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian arma.

Noun

arma f (plural armi)

1. weapon (instrument of attack or defense in combat)
2. weapon (means of harming or exerting control)
3. (heraldry) coat of arms

Etymology 2

Verb

arma (imperfect jarma, past participle armat, verbal noun armar)

1. Alternative form of rama

Conjugation

Interjection

arma

1. A command to speed up

Related terms

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan arma, from Late Latin arma (“weapon”), from Latin arma (“defensive arms”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

arma f (plural armas)

1. weapon

Related terms

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin arma (“weapon”), from Latin arma (“defensive arms”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“fitting”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾ.ma/

Noun

arma f (plural armas)

1. weapon; arm

Related terms

• armado
• armar

Descendants

• Fala: arma
• Galician: arma
• Portuguese: arma

Old Norse

Etymology

From armr.

Noun

arma f (genitive ǫrmu, plural ǫrmur)

1. pity

Declension

References

• “arma”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Late Latin arma (“weapon”), from Latin arma (“defensive arms”).

Noun

arma f (oblique plural armas, nominative singular arma, nominative plural armas)

1. weapon

Related terms

• armar
• armat

Descendants

• Occitan: arma

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “arma”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 23

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Nordestino) IPA^(key): /ah.mɐ/, /ah.ma/

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Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese arma, from Late Latin arma (“weapon”), from Latin arma (“defensive arms”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join”).

Noun

arma f (plural armas)

1. weapon

   Synonym: armamento

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

Verb

arma

1. inflection of armar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Quechua

Noun

arma

1. basin, sink, bathtub
2. the Big Dipper

Declension

See also

• armay

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin armāre, French armer, or Italian armare.

Verb

a arma (third-person singular present armează, past participle armat) 1st conj.

1. to prepare a weapon for firing
2. to arm, equip

   Synonyms: înarma, întrarma

3. (figuratively) to strengthen by adding reinforcement (e.g. armor, a mineshaft, etc.)

Conjugation

Related terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French armer.

Verb

a arma (third-person singular present armează, past participle armat) 1st conj.

1. to launch a ship in service with all necessary equipment

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

arma

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of armă

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾma/

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -aɾma
• Syllabification: ar‧ma

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish arma, from Late Latin arma (“weapon”), from Latin arma (“defensive arms”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join”).

Noun

arma f (plural armas)

1. weapon, arm

   El arma secreta ― the secret weapon

   Las armas secretas ― the secret weapons

Usage notes

• Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.

  el arma, un arma

• They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• → Basque: arma

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

arma

1. inflection of armar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “arma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Anagrams

• amar, rama

Swedish

Adjective

arma

1. inflection of arm:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

Anagrams

• aram., mara, rama

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish آرما, آرمه (arma), from Italian arma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɾˈma/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ar‧ma

• Audio

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Noun

arma (definite accusative armayı, plural armalar)

1. coat of arms

Declension