• alarum

FromMiddle Englishalarme,alarom, borrowed fromMiddle Frenchalarme, itself fromOld Italianall'arme!(“to arms!, to the weapons!”), ultimately fromLatinarma(“arms, weapons”).

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/əˈlɑːm/
• (General American)IPA^(key):/əˈlɑɹm/
• Hyphenation:alarm

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• Rhymes:-ɑː(ɹ)m

alarm (countable anduncountable,pluralalarms)

1. Asummons toarms, as on the approach of an enemy.
   • c.1602,William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

     Arming to answer in a nightalarm.

2. Anysound orinformationintended to givenotice ofapproachingdanger; awarningsound toarouseattention; a warning of danger.
   • 1611,The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London:[…]Robert Barker, […],→OCLC,Joel2:1:

     Sound analarm in my holy mountain.

   • 1859, Charles Dickens,The Haunted House:

     She went about the house in a state of real terror, and yet lied monstrously and wilfully, and invented many of thealarms she spread, and made many of the sounds we heard.

3. Adeviceintended towarn or givenotice ofapproachingdanger.

   Thefirealarm is located high on the wall to prevent tampering.

4. Asuddenattack; adisturbance.
   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance),William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene i]:

     Lord Marshal, command our officers-at-arms
     Be ready to direct these homealarms.

   • 1725,Homer, “Book I”, in [Elijah Fenton], transl.,The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London:[…]Bernard Lintot,→OCLC,page III:

     Is it then true, as distant rumours run,
     that crowds of rivals for thy mother's charms
     thy Palace fill with insults andalarms?

5. Suddensurprise withfear orterror excited byapprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.
   • 1849–1861,Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, inThe History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume(please specify |volume=I to V), London:Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans,→OCLC:

     Alarm and resentment spread through the camp.

6. Amechanicaldevice forawaking people, or rousing their attention.

   The clock radio is a friendlier version of the coldalarm by the bedside.

7. An instance of an alarmringing,beeping orclanging, to give a noise signal at a certain time.

   You should set thealarm on your watch to go off at seven o'clock.

• tocsin

alarm (third-person singular simple presentalarms,present participlealarming,simple past and past participlealarmed)

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1. (transitive) Tocall to arms for defense.
2. (transitive) To give (someone)notice ofapproachingdanger ornecessaryaction; torouse tovigilance; to put on thealert.
   • 1838, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess:

     When the carriage drew up in the grass-grown court yard before the hall-door, two lazy-looking men, whose appearance well accorded with that of the place which they tenanted,alarmed by the obstreperous barking of a great chained dog, ran out from some half-ruinous out-houses, and took charge of the horses;[…]

3. (transitive, of adevice) Toproduce awarning ofapproachingdanger ornecessaryaction; toemit asignalintended torouse arecipient tovigilance or put them on thealert.
   • 1985 March 21,National Transportation Safety Board, “2.2 Environmental Factors”, inAircraft Accident Report: United Airlines Flight 663, Boeing 727-222, N7647U, Denver, Colorado, May 31, 1984‎^[1], page39:

     The tower cab supervisor and various pilots stated that the LLWAS system frequentlyalarms because of the thunderstorm activity present, and that airspeed losses are common as a result of convective wind shear.

4. (transitive) Tosurprise withapprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.
5. (transitive) To keep in excitement; todisturb.

• “alarm”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.

• LRAAM,Lamar,Marla,malar,marla,ramal

FromFrenchalarme(“alarm”).

• IPA^(key):/alaɾm/

alárm m (pluralalárme,definitealármi,definite pluralalármet)

1. (army)alarm

   Synonym:kushtrim

2. (figurative)anxiety

   Synonym:shqetësim

• alarmim m(gerund)
• alarmoj(active)
• alarmohem(passive)
• alarmonjës
• alarmuar(participle)
• alarmues m
• alarmuese f

• Oda Buchholz, Wilfried Fiedler, Gerda Uhlisch (2000)Langenscheidt Handwörterbuch Albanisch, Langenscheidt Verlag,→ISBN, page 32 (nounalárm/alarm)
• [2] m. nounalárm/alarm (engl.alarm) • Fjalor Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)

• IPA^(key):[ˈalarm]

alarm m inan

1. alarm

• “alarm”, inPříruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech),1935–1957
• “alarm”, inSlovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech),1960–1971, 1989
• “alarm”, inAkademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech),1995

alarm c (singular definitealarmen,plural indefinitealarmer)

1. alarm

• brandalarm

• “alarm” inDen Danske Ordbog

Ultimately fromItalianall'arme(“to arms”),allarme; compare alsoFrenchalarme.Thisetymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key):/aːˈlɑrm/

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• Hyphenation:alarm
• Rhymes:-ɑrm

alarm n (pluralalarmen,diminutivealarmpje n)

1. alarm

• alarmeren

• Negerhollands:allarm,alarm
• → Indonesian:alarm

• Almar

Internationalism,borrowed fromDutchalarm.

• IPA^(key):/ˈalarm/,[alarə̆m]
• Hyphenation:alarm
• Rhymes:-m

alarm (pluralalarm-alarm)

1. alarm

   Synonyms:beker,weker

• penggera(Standard Malay)

• “alarm” inKamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta:Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Internationalism; possiblyborrowed fromPolishalarm orGermanAlarm. Ultimately fromItalianall'arme(“to arms”).Doublet oflarm. CompareSlovincianalarm.

• IPA^(key):/ˈa.larm/
• Rhymes:-alarm
• Syllabification:a‧larm

alarm m inan

1. alarm(device used to alarm people)

   Synonym:alert

2. alarm(sound used to alarm people)

   Synonym:alert

3. alarm(state of being alerted)

• Stefan Ramułt (1993) [1893] “alarm”, in Jerzy Trepczyk, editor,Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), 3 edition
• Jan Trepczyk (1994) “alarm”, inSłownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “18428”, inSłownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[3]
• “alarm”, inInternetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby,2022

FromItalianall' arme(“to arms”) andallarme, viaFrenchalarme.

alarm m (definite singularalarmen,indefinite pluralalarmer,definite pluralalarmene)

1. analarm

• “alarm” inThe Bokmål Dictionary.

FromItalianall' arme(“to arms”) andallarme, viaFrenchalarme.

alarm m (definite singularalarmen,indefinite pluralalarmar,definite pluralalarmane)

1. analarm

• “alarm” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed fromFrenchalarme orGermanAlarm,^[1] fromItalianall'arme(“to arms”).^[2] First attested in 1644–1660.^[3] CompareKashubianalarm andSlovincianalarm.

• IPA^(key):/ˈa.larm/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes:-alarm
• Syllabification:a‧larm

alarm m inan

1. alarm(device used to alarm people)

   Synonym:alert

2. alarm(sound used to alarm people)

   Synonym:alert

3. alarm(state of being alerted)

   Hypernym:alert

4. alarm(fear, apprehension)

   Hypernym:alert

• alarm inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• alarm in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “allarm”, inSłownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “alarm”, inSłownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz,A. Kryński,W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “alarm”, inSłownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page21

FromFrenchalarme.

• IPA^(key):/ǎlarm/
• Hyphenation:a‧larm

àlarm m (Cyrillic spellingа̀ларм,relational adjectiveàlarmnī)

1. alarm

• “alarm”, inHrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian),2006–2025

Borrowed fromGermanAlarm. CompareKashubianalarm andPolishalarm.

• IPA^(key):/aˈlarm/
• Rhymes:-arm
• Syllabification:a‧larm

alarm m inan (related adjectivealarmôwy)

1. alarm

• Lorentz, Friedrich (1908) “alàrm”, inSlovinzisches Wörterbuch‎^[4] (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg:ОРЯС ИАН,page 3

alarm n

1. analarm (warning or emergency signal, and a device that emits such a signal)
2. alarm (state of alarm)

• uppståndelse(“stir, commotion”)
• väckarklocka(“alarm clock”)

• alarm inSvensk ordbok (SO)
• alarm inSvenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• alarm inSvenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

FromFrenchalarme.

• IPA^(key):/a.laɾm/
• Hyphenation:a‧larm

alarm (definite accusativealarmı,pluralalarmlar)

1. alarm

   Tehlike anındaalarmı beklemeden sığınağa girmeliyiz.

   In case of danger, we must enter the shelter without waiting for thealarm.

2. alarm clock

   Synonym:çalar saat

   Alarmım zamanında çalmadı.

   Myalarm clock didn't ring on time.