arma

1. definitenominativesingular ofarmë

FromLate Latinarma(“weapon”), fromLatinarma(“defensive arms”).

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

arma f (pluralarmas)

1. weapon

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

FromLate Latinarma(“weapon”), fromLatinarma(“defensive arms”).

arma f (pluralarmes)

1. weapon

• arma blanca
• arma de fueu

• armar

CompareSpanisharma.

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arma inan

1. weapon

• IPA^(key):(Central,Balearic)[ˈar.mə]
• IPA^(key):(Valencia)[ˈaɾ.ma]

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Inherited fromLate Latinarma(“weapon”), fromLatinarma(“defensive arms”), fromProto-Indo-European*h₂(e)rmos(“fitting”), from the root*h₂er-(“to join”).

arma f (pluralarmes)

1. weapon

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

arma

1. inflection ofarmar:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

• “arma” inDiccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició,Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “arma”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2025
• “arma” inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “arma” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key):/aʁ.ma/

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arma

1. third-personsingular past historic ofarmer

• rama

arma

1. (Literary)forms the future tense

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

Inherited fromOld Galician-Portuguesearma, fromLate Latinarma(“weapon”), fromLatinarma(“defensive arms”). ComparePortuguesearma.

• IPA^(key):[ˈaɾmɐ]

arma f (pluralarmas)

1. weapon,arm

• arma branca
• arma de fogo

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja,Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “arma”, inDicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “arma”, inCorpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “arma”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “arma”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “arma”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega,→ISSN

• (La Maddalena)IPA^(key):/ˈarma/^[1]

arma f (pluralarmi)

1. (dialectal)Alternative form ofalma(“weapon”)

arma

1. Romanization of𐌰𐍂𐌼𐌰

arma

1. indefiniteaccusativeplural ofarmur
2. indefinitegenitiveplural ofarmur

arma (pluralarmas)

1. weapon,arm

• armea

arma

1. inflection ofarm:
   1. vocativeplural
   2. (archaic)nominativeplural

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

FromLate Latinarma(“weapon”), fromLatinarma(“defensive arms, weapons of war, war, defense, tools”), fromProto-Indo-European*h₂(e)rmos(“fitting”), from the root*h₂er-(“to join”).

arma f (pluralarmior(archaic or poetic)arme)

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

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

arma

1. inflection ofarmare:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

• amar,marà,rama

FromProto-Indo-European*h₂(e)rmos(“fitting”), from the root*h₂er-(“to join”).armentum is an independent derivation from the same root, as if fromProto-Indo-European*h₂er-mn̥-tom. Cognates includeSanskritऋत(ṛtá,“order; right; agreement etc.”) andअरम्(áram,“fitting”),Ancient Greekἀραρίσκω(ararískō,“to fit together”) andOld Armenianարարի(arari,“I made”).^[1]

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

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

arma n pl (genitivearmōrum);second declension

(plural only)

1. arms,weapons ofwar,weaponry,instruments(implements ofwarfare)

   Hypernym:tēla(“offensive weapons”)

   • 27BCE – 25BCE,Titus Livius,Ab Urbe Condita29.4.2.3:

     mūnīre urbem, frūmentum convehere, tēlaarma parāre

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

   • 8CE,Ovid,Fasti5.393–394:

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

     Meanwhile, [Chiron] looks at the club and the spoils of the lion, and says, “Man [worthy]for thesearms, andarms worthy for the man!”
     (The centaurChiron addressesHercules who has slain theNemean lion in close combat.)

   • 1839 [8th centuryCE],Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller,Excerpta ex librisPompeii Festi De significatione verborum,page 2, line13:

     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 which 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. (metonymic)militaryaction,war(arms as instruments of policy)
3. (abstract or concrete)warfare,battle(military exploits)
   • 29BCE – 19BCE,Virgil,Aeneid4.86-87:

     [...] nōnarma iuventūs / exercet, [...].

     [...] nor do young [soldiers] practice theirmilitary drills, [...].
     (Carthage becomes vulnerable once its youth stop training for combat; figuratively, the queen has lowered her own defenses.)

4. (metonymic)troops,militaryforces, thearmy
5. weapons as means ofdefence
6. (by extension)tools,equipment

   Synonym:armāmenta

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

A nominative plural → feminine singular transfer from the "weapons" sense of Etymology 1, common during the Late Latin period.

arma f (genitivearmae);first declension

1. (Late Latin) a piece ofweaponry

First-declension noun.

• "arma", inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• arma inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “arma” on page 187 of theOxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

• IPA^(key):/ˈar.ma/

Borrowed fromItalianarma.

arma f (pluralarmi)

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

arma (imperfectjarma,past participlearmat,verbal nounarmar)

1. Alternative form oframa

arma

1. A command to speed up

FromOld Occitanarma, fromLate Latinarma(“weapon”), fromLatinarma(“defensive arms”).

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arma f (pluralarmas)

1. weapon

Inherited fromLate Latinarma(“weapon”), fromLatinarma(“defensive arms”), fromProto-Indo-European*h₂(e)rmos(“fitting”).

• IPA^(key):/ˈaɾ.ma/

arma f (pluralarmas)

1. weapon;arm

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

• Universo Cantigas - "arma"

Fromarmr.

arma f (genitiveǫrmu,pluralǫrmur)

1. pity

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “arma”, inA Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at theInternet Archive

FromLate Latinarma(“weapon”), fromLatinarma(“defensive arms”).

arma f (oblique pluralarmas,nominative singulararma,nominative pluralarmas)

1. weapon

• armar
• armat

• Occitan:arma

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “arma”, inFranzösisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus,page23

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

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• Rhymes:(Brazil)-aʁmɐ,(Portugal)-aɾmɐ
• Hyphenation:ar‧ma

Inherited fromOld Galician-Portuguesearma, fromLate Latinarma(“weapon”), fromLatinarma(“defensive arms”), fromProto-Indo-European*h₂(e)rmos(“fitting”), from the root*h₂er-(“to join”). CompareGalicianarma.

arma f (pluralarmas)

1. weapon

   Synonym:armamento

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

arma

1. inflection ofarmar:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

• “arma”, inMichaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos,2015–2025
• “arma”, inDicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora,2003–2025

arma

1. basin,sink,bathtub
2. theBig Dipper

• armay

Borrowed fromLatinarmāre,Frencharmer, orItalianarmare.

a arma (third-person singular presentarmează,past participlearmat) 1st conjugation

1. to prepare aweapon forfiring
2. toarm,equip

   Synonyms:înarma,întrarma

3. (figuratively) tostrengthen by addingreinforcement (e.g. armor, amineshaft, etc.)

Borrowed fromFrencharmer.

a arma (third-person singular presentarmează,past participlearmat) 1st conjugation

1. tolaunch aship in service with all necessary equipment

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

arma

1. definitenominative/accusativesingular ofarmă

• IPA^(key):/ˈaɾma/[ˈaɾ.ma]

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• Rhymes:-aɾma
• Syllabification:ar‧ma

Inherited fromOld Spanisharma, fromLate Latinarma(“weapon”), fromLatinarma(“defensive arms”), fromProto-Indo-European*h₂(e)rmos(“fitting”), from the root*h₂er-(“to join”).

arma f (pluralarmas)

1. weapon,arm

   Elarma secreta ―the secretweapon

   Lasarmas secretas ―the secretweapons

• Feminine nouns beginning with stressed/ˈa/ likearma take the singular definite articleel (otherwise reserved for masculine nouns) instead of the usualla:el arma. This includes the contracted formsal anddel (instead ofa la andde la, respectively):al arma,del arma. This is to avoid doubling of the /a/ sound.

These nouns also usually take the indefinite articleun that is otherwise used with masculine nouns (although the standard feminine formuna is also permitted):un arma oruna arma. The same is true with determinersalgún/alguna andningún/ninguna, as well as for numerals ending with 1 (e.g.,veintiún/veintiuna).

However, if another word intervenes between the article and the noun, the usual feminine singular articles and determiners (la,una etc.) must be used:la mejor arma,una buena arma.

• If an adjective follows the noun, it must agree with the noun's gender regardless of the article used:el arma única,un(a) arma buena.
• In the plural, the usual feminine singular articles and determiners (las,unas etc.) are always used.

• → Basque:arma

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

arma

1. inflection ofarmar:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

• “arma”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

• amar,rama

arma

1. inflection ofarm:
   1. definitesingular
   2. plural

• aram.,mara,rama

FromOttoman Turkishآرما,آرمه(arma), fromItalianarma.

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

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arma (definite accusativearmayı,pluralarmalar)

1. coat of arms