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FromMiddle English arm , fromOld English earm (Anglianarm ), fromProto-West Germanic *arm , fromProto-Germanic *armaz ( “ arm ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos ( “ a fitting, joint; arm, forequarter ” ) , a suffixed form of*h₂er- ( “ to join, fit together ” ) .
Cognates
Akin toDutch arm ,German Arm ,Yiddish אָרעם ( orem ) ,Danish ,Norwegian andSwedish arm . Indo-European cognates includeLatin armus ( “ the uppermost part of the arm, shoulder ” ) ,Bulgarian рамо ( ramo ) ,Polish ramię ,Serbo-Croatian rȁme ,Armenian արմունկ ( armunk ,“ elbow ” ) ,Ancient Greek ἁρμός ( harmós ,“ joint, shoulder ” ) andἅρμα ( hárma ,“ wagon, chariot ” ) ,Avestan 𐬀𐬭𐬨𐬀 ( arma ) ,Old Persian [script needed] ( arma ) .
arm (plural arms )
( anatomy ) The portion of the upper humanappendage , from theshoulder to thewrist and sometimes including thehand .She stood with her rightarm extended and herpalm forward to indicate “Stop!” 1963 ,Margery Allingham , chapter 19, inThe China Governess: A Mystery , London:Chatto & Windus ,→OCLC :When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by thearm , since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.
( anatomy ) The extended portion of the upperlimb , from theshoulder to theelbow .Thearm and forearm are parts of the upper limb in the human body.
Alimb , orlocomotive orprehensile organ , of aninvertebrate animal.thearms of an octopus
The part of a piece of clothing that covers the arm.Synonym: sleeve 1970 ,J. G. Farrell ,Troubles [1] , New York: Knopf, published1971 , page340 :[ …] he noticed that a dark stain had appeared under thearm of her grey silk dress.
A long,narrow , more or lessrigid part of an objectextending from the main part or centre of the object, such as thearmrest of anarmchair , acrane , a pair ofspectacles or apair of compasses .The robotarm reached out and placed the part on the assembly line.
( geography ) Abay orinlet off a main body of water.Shelburne Bay is anarm of Lake Champlain.
Abranch of anorganization .the cavalryarm of the military service
2018 April 25,Ron Nixon , “Scandals and Investigations, but Few Arrests, for Air Marshals Program”, inThe New York Times [2] :Congress has asked the Government Accountability Office, its investigativearm , to review the workplace complaints raised by air marshals, said Charles Young, a spokesman for the office.
( figurative ) Power; might; strength; support.thearm of the law
the seculararm
( baseball , slang ) Apitcher The team needs to sign anotherarm in the offseason.
( genetics ) One of the two parts of achromosome .A group of patients in a medical trial. aftarm an arm and a leg arm ball armband armbar armbinder armbone ,arm bone armbrace arm candy armchair ,arm-chair arm day -armed armfloat armful arm garter armgaunt armguard ,arm guard armhole ,arm hole armhook arm-in-arm ,arm in arm arm in crook armlength armless armlet armlike armload armlock armlong arm of flesh armpiece armpit ,arm pit armplate arm pump armrest ,arm rest armring Arm River armscye armshield arm's length arm span arm's reach armstand arm-twist ,arm twist arm-twister ,arm twister arm-twisting ,arm twisting armwear arm-wrestle ,arm wrestle arm-wrestler ,arm wrestler arm-wrestling ,arm wrestling at arm's length auntie arm babe in arms break one's arm patting oneself on the back cement arm chance one's arm control arm counterarm crankarm ,crank arm crook of the arm crossarm Dairy Arm dead arm syndrome dead man's arm dinner lady arm fire arm fore-arm forearm ,fore arm give one's right arm give someone the arm glass arm grabby arm hairy arm hand-arm vibration syndrome input arm interarm in the arms of Morpheus keep at arm's length left arm orthodox left arm unorthodox lever arm Local Arm longarm ,long arm long arm of the law long-arm statute ,long arm statute long as one's arm lower arm Main Arm make a long arm man-arm midarm moment arm more power to your arm multiarm North Arm Cove one-arm one-arm bandit ,one-armed bandit one-arm joint one-arm lunchroom one-arm restaurant one can't carry two watermelons under one arm on one's arm Orion Arm outer arm output arm overarm Perseus Arm pitman arm put the arm on someone radial arm saw radius arm resistance arm right arm Right Arm of the Free World righting arm rocker arm roundarm secular arm seven-arm octopus short arm shot in the arm side arm slap on the arm South Arm spiral arm steering arm stiff-arm straight-arm ,straight arm strong-arm ,strong arm swingarm sword arm take in one's arms take someone's arm talk someone's arm off teeth arm tonearm ,tone arm trans broken arm syndrome tuck shop arm tuck shop lady arm twist someone's arm underarm under one's arm upper arm Upper Main Arm wet arm system white arm with a high arm with one arm tied behind one's back with open arms Woolners Arm yard arm yardarm ,yard-arm arm (third-person singular simple present arms ,present participle arming ,simple past and past participle armed )
( obsolete ) To take by thearm ; totake up in one's arms.1611 April (first recorded performance),William Shakespeare , “The Tragedie of Cymbeline ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC ,[ Act IV, scene ii] :And make him with our pikes and partisans / A grave: come,arm him.
FromMiddle English arm ( “ poor, wretched ” ) , fromOld English earm ( “ poor, miserable, pitiful, wretched ” ) , fromProto-West Germanic *arm , fromProto-Germanic *armaz ( “ poor ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *h₁erm- ( “ poor, ill ” ) .
arm (comparative armer or morearm ,superlative armest or mostarm )
( UK dialectal , chiefly Scotland ) Poor ;lacking inriches orwealth .( UK dialectal , chiefly Scotland ) To bepitied ;pitiful ;wretched .Back-formation fromarms ( plural ) , fromMiddle English armes , fromOld French armes , fromLatin arma ( “ weapons ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *h₂er-mo- , a suffixed form of*h₂er- ( “ to fit together ” ) , hence ultimately cognate with etymology 1.
arm (plural arms )
( usually used in the plural ) Aweapon .( in theplural ) Heraldic bearings orinsignia .The Duke'sarms were a sable gryphon rampant on an argent field.
( in theplural , obsolete ) War ;hostilities ;deeds orexploits of war.(Can we add anexample for this sense?) Pubs and taverns often use this word in their names, as a reference to heraldic bearings, e.g.The Queen's Arms . weapon
Albanian:armë (sq) f Arabic:سِلَاح m ( silāḥ ) Armenian:զենք (hy) ( zenkʻ ) ,սպառազինություն (hy) ( spaṙazinutʻyun ) Belarusian:збро́я f ( zbrója ) ,узбрае́нне n ( uzbrajénnje ) ( collective ) Breton:arm (br) m ,armoù (br) pl Bulgarian:оръ́жие (bg) n ( orǎ́žie ) ,въоръже́ние (bg) n ( vǎorǎžénie ) ( collective ) Catalan:arma (ca) f Chinese:Mandarin:武器 (zh) ( wǔqì ) Czech:zbraň (cs) f Danish:våben (da) Dutch:wapen (nl) n Esperanto:armilo Finnish:ase (fi) French:arme (fr) f German:Waffe (de) f ,Bewaffnung (de) f ( collective ) ,Rüstung (de) f ( collective ) Greek:όπλο (el) n ( óplo ) Ancient Greek:ὅπλον n ( hóplon ) Guarani:Paraguayan Guarani:( firearm ) (pleaseverify ) mboka Hebrew:נֶשֶׁק (he) m ( néshek ) Indonesian:senjata (id) Interlingua:arma Irish:arm m Italian:arma (it) f Japanese:武器 (ja) ( ぶき, buki ) Khmer:អាវុធ (km) ( ʼaavut ) Korean:무기(武器) (ko) ( mugi ) Kurdish:Northern Kurdish:çek (ku) ,sîleh (ku) Lao:ອາວຸດ (lo) ( ʼā wut ) Latin:arma (la) n pl ,telum n Low German:Wapen n Macedonian:оружје n ( oružje ) Occitan:arma (oc) f Old English:wǣpn n ,ġewǣpne n ( collective ) Persian:سِلاح (fa) ( selâh ) Polish:broń (pl) f ,uzbrojenie (pl) n ( collective ) Portuguese:arma (pt) f Romanian:armă (ro) f Russian:ору́жие (ru) n ( orúžije ) ,вооруже́ние (ru) n ( vooružénije ) ( collective ) Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:о̀рӯжје n Latin:òrūžje (sh) n Slovak:zbraň (sk) Slovene:orožje n Spanish:arma (es) f Swahili:mkono (sw) Swedish:vapen (sv) n Tajik:силоҳ (tg) ( siloh ) Telugu:ఆయుఇధం ( āyuidhaṁ ) Thai:อาวุธ (th) ( aa-wút ) Tupinambá:popesûara Turkish:silah (tr) Ottoman Turkish:سلاح ( silâh ) Ukrainian:збро́я (uk) f ( zbrója ) ,озбро́єння (uk) n ( ozbrójennja ) ( collective ) Vietnamese:vũ khí (vi) (武器 ) Volapük:vaf (vo) ,vafem (vo) ( collective )
arm (third-person singular simple present arms ,present participle arming ,simple past and past participle armed )
( transitive ) Tosupply witharmour or (later especially)weapons .The kingarmed his knights with swords and shields.
2015 , George R. R. Martin,A Dance with Dragons , Bantam,→ISBN , page593 :They werearming them with spears and shields, putting iron halfhelms on their heads, and arraying them along the inner wall, a rank of snowy sentinels. "Lord Winter has joined us with his levies," one of the sentries [said].
( transitive , figurative ) To supply with theequipment ,knowledge ,authority , or othertools needed for a particular task; tofurnish withcapability ; toequip .1801 (?), John Bunyan,The Pilgrim's Progress ... to which is Added, the Life and Death of the Author , page 359:Many following him, and, in his journeyings, he visited many at their houses, and gave them consolation,arming them with steady resolves, to be patient in suffering and trust to God for their reward; [ …] 1806 , William turner,An Abstract of the History of the Bible ... With questions for examination, etc , page43 :[God] directed them to choose out three hundred only, and,arming them with nothing but trumpets and lamps, to send them by night into the camp of the Midianites.
1885 ,United States Congressional Serial Set , page119 :Q. In other words, you were commissioning men here in Cincinnati to attend the polls,arming them with authority to arrest citizens; men from outside of the city of Cincinnati to arrest citizens of the city of Cincinnati[ …]
2011 , Meredith H. Lair,Armed with Abundance: Consumerism & Soldiering in the Vietnam War , Univ of North Carolina Press,→ISBN , page215 :Picture taking soothed support troops' anxieties twice over, empowering them as they navigated a strange environment, andarming them with proof that they really had served in a war.
2014 , Susan Fawcett,Grassroots with Readings: The Writer's Workbook , Cengage Learning,→ISBN , page466 :[ …] andarming them with skills, work habits, and inner confidence that no one can ever take away.
( transitive ) Toprepare (atool ,weapon , orsystem ) foraction ; toactivate .Remember toarm the alarm system before leaving for work.
( intransitive , of atool ,weapon , orsystem ) To becomeprepared foraction ; toactivate .2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 14:43 from the start, inGuadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN) [3] , archived fromthe original on17 October 2022 :Torpedoes were loosed, but the range was too short for them to actuallyarm , and they bounced harmlessly off the ship as it cut loose with its secondary and antiaircraft guns, smashing anything that it could see.
( transitive ) Tocover orfurnish with aplate , or with whatever willadd strength ,force ,security , orefficiency .toarm the hilt of a sword; toarm a hook in angling
( intransitive ) Totake up weapons ; to arm oneself.The sergeant sent out an order toarm the team for the next mission.
1974 February 2, Igor S. V. de Goldilox-Goldilox, “Personal advertisement”, inGay Community News , volume 1, number32 , page14 :Are youarming , comrade Atheists? Are youarming for the fray?
( transitive ) Tofit (amagnet ) with anarmature .to supply with armour or weapons
Albanian:armatos (sq) Arabic:سَلَّحَ ( sallaḥa ) Armenian:զինել (hy) ( zinel ) Aromanian:armãtusescu Azerbaijani:silahlandırmaq Belarusian:узбро́йваць impf ( uzbrójvacʹ ) ,узбро́іць pf ( uzbróicʹ ) Bulgarian:въоръжа́вам (bg) impf ( vǎorǎžávam ) ,въоръжа́ pf ( vǎorǎžá ) Catalan:armar (ca) Chinese:Mandarin:武裝 / 武装 (zh) ( wǔzhuāng ) Czech:zbrojit (cs) impf ,ozbrojit pf Danish:bevæbne (da) ,udruste (da) ,opruste (da) Dutch:bewapenen (nl) Esperanto:armi Estonian:relvastama Finnish:haarniskoida ( body armour ) ;panssaroida (fi) ( armour ) ;aseistaa (fi) ( weapons ) French:armer (fr) Friulian:armâ Georgian:შეიარაღება ( šeiaraɣeba ) German:rüsten (de) ,bewaffnen (de) ,aufrüsten (de) Greek:οπλίζω (el) ( oplízo ) Ancient Greek:ὁπλίζω ( hoplízō ) Gullah:aa’m Hindi:शस्त्र युक्त करना ( śastra yukt karnā ) Hungarian:felfegyverez (hu) Icelandic:hervæða Ido:armizar (io) Irish:armáil Italian:armare (it) Japanese:武装する (ja) ( ぶそうする, busō suru ) Kazakh:қаруландыру ( qarulandyru ) Korean:무장하다 (ko) ( mujanghada ) Kyrgyz:куралдандыруу ( kuraldandıruu ) Latin:armō Latvian:apbruņot Lithuanian:apginkluoti Macedonian:вооружува impf ( vooružuva ) ,вооружи pf ( vooruži ) Māori:whakamaurākau Norwegian:Bokmål:væpne ,utruste Nynorsk:væpna Occitan:armar (oc) Old English:wǣpnian Persian:مسلح کردن (fa) ( mosallah kardan ) Polish:zbroić (pl) impf ,uzbrajać impf ,uzbroić (pl) pf Portuguese:armar (pt) Romanian:a arma (ro) Russian:вооружа́ть (ru) impf ( vooružátʹ ) ,вооружи́ть (ru) pf ( vooružítʹ ) Scottish Gaelic:armaich Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:наоружа́вати impf ,наору̀жати pf ,оборужа́вати impf ,обору̀жати pf Latin:naoružávati (sh) impf ,naorùžati (sh) pf ,oboružávati (sh) impf ,oborùžati (sh) pf Slovak:zbrojiť impf ,vyzbrojiť pf ,ozbrojiť pf Slovene:oboroževati impf ,oborožiti pf Spanish:armar (es) Swahili:mkono (sw) Swedish:rusta (sv) ,beväpna (sv) Tajik:мусаллаҳ кардан ( musallah kardan ) Thai:ติด อาวุธ ( dtìt aa-wút ) Turkish:silahlandırmak Ukrainian:озбро́ювати impf ( ozbrójuvaty ) ,озбро́їти pf ( ozbrójity ) Uzbek:qurollantirmoq (uz) Vietnamese:vũ trang (vi)
to cover with whatever that will add strength, force, security, or efficiency
to furnish with means of defence; to prepare for resistance; to fortify
to take up weapons; to arm oneself
-mar- ,AMR ,MAR ,MRA ,Mar ,Mar. ,RAM ,RMA ,Ram ,mar ,mar- ,ram FromDutch arm , fromProto-Germanic *armaz ( “ arm ” ) .
arm (plural arms ,diminutive armpie )
arm FromDutch arm , fromProto-Germanic *armaz ( “ poor ” ) .
arm (attributive arm or ( chiefly in figurative use ) arme ,comparative armer ,superlative armste )
poor ( not wealthy ) diearmstes van diearmes ―thepoorest of thepoor ( figurative ) poor ( pitiable ) FromMiddle High German arm , fromOld High German arm , fromProto-West Germanic *arm , fromProto-Germanic *armaz ( “ arm ” ) . Cognate withGerman Arm ,English arm .
arm m (plural èrme )
( Sette Comuni ) arm An langararm rékhet béetor. ―A longarm can reach further. FromMiddle High German arm , fromOld High German arm , fromProto-West Germanic *arm , fromProto-Germanic *armaz ( “ poor, pitiful ” ) . Cognate withGerman arm ,English arm .
arm (comparative èrmor ,superlative darèrmorste )
( Sette Comuni , Luserna ) poor Bèar isarm hat nicht so borliran. ―He who ispoor has nothing to lose. This adjective has irregular declension; positive inflected forms also haveumlaut .
“arm” inMartalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974 ),Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini , 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013)Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien FromOld Norse armr ( “ arm ” ) , fromProto-Germanic *armaz , fromProto-Indo-European *h₂er-mo- ( “ arm ” ) .
arm c (singular definite armen ,plural indefinite arme )
( anatomy ) arm FromOld Norse armr ( “ arm, poor ” ) , fromProto-Germanic *armaz ( “ poor ” ) .
arm (neuter armt ,plural and definite singular attributive arme )
( dated ) poor , notrich Synonym: fattig unfortunate ,poor Synonym: stakkels Inflection ofarm positive comparative superlative indefinite common singular arm — —2 indefinite neuter singular armt — —2 plural arme — —2 definite attributive1 arme — —
1 When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.2 The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.
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FromMiddle Dutch arm , fromOld Dutch arm , fromProto-West Germanic *arm , fromProto-Germanic *armaz ( “ arm ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos ( “ a fitting, joint ” ) , a suffixed form of*h₂er- ( “ to join, fit together ” ) . Cognate toAvestan 𐬀𐬭𐬨𐬀 ( arma ) andOld Persian [script needed] ( arma ) .
arm m (plural armen ,diminutive armpje n )
arm Iemand kneep in mijnarm . Someone pinched my arm. branch ( especially of streams and organisations ) FromMiddle Dutch arm , fromOld Dutch arm , fromProto-West Germanic *arm , fromProto-Germanic *armaz , perhaps fromProto-Indo-European *h₂erH- ( “ to be sparse ” ) .
arm (comparative armer ,superlative armst )
poor (not rich)Synonyms: armoedig ,armlastig ,armetierig arme landen ―poor countries poor (unfortunate)arme stakker… ―poor soul… East Central German [ edit ] arm
( Erzgebirgisch , intransitive ) towork Synonym: arbittn Hendrik Heidler (11 June 2020),Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch [4] (in German), 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand,→ISBN ,→OCLC , page17 FromProto-Finnic *arpi ;arm is an irregular variant of the root; the expectedarb can be seen in dialects.
arm (genitive armi ,partitive armi )
scar FromProto-Finnic *armo . Most likely derived fromarmas . Cognate toVotic armo ( “ grace, mercy ” ) .
arm (genitive armu ,partitive armu )
mercy pardon ( poetic ) love ,affection arm
indefinite accusative singular ofarmur FromMiddle High German arm , fromOld High German arm , fromProto-West Germanic *arm , fromProto-Germanic *armaz , perhaps fromProto-Indo-European *h₂erH- ( “ to be sparse ” ) or alternatively fromProto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰ- , whenceEnglish orphan . Cognate withOld English earm .
arm (strong nominative masculine singular armer ,comparative ärmer ,superlative am ärmsten )
poor ( having little money ) poor ( to be pitied ) arm dran sein ―to have bad luck lieberarm dran als Arm ab ―better to have bad luck than to lose an arm [theplay on words is lost in translation] low ( having a small amount ) “arm ” inDigitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache “arm ” in Uni Leipzig:Wortschatz-Lexikon “arm ” inDuden online arm
indefinite accusative singular ofarmur FromOld Irish arm n ( “ armour, battle-equipment, panoply; weapon; army ” ) , fromLatin arma .[ 1]
arm m (genitive singular airm ,nominative plural airm )
weapon ;implement ,tool ( collective ) arms ,weaponry army Synonyms: slua m ,( literary ) armáil f Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019 ), “arm ”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931 ),Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry ] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux,§ 110 , page59 ^ Finck, F. N. (1899 ),Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect ] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary ], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page10 ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906 ),A Dialect of Donegal , Cambridge University Press,§ 138 , page54 Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977 ), “arm ”, inFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla , Dublin: An Gúm,→ISBN Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904 ), “arm ”, inFoclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla , 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society,page40 de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959 ), “arm ”, inEnglish-Irish Dictionary , An Gúm“arm ”, inNew English-Irish Dictionary , Foras na Gaeilge,2013–2026 FromDutch arm . Cognates includeAfrikaans arm .
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poor 1912 ,Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche taal- en letterkunde , volumes31-32 , page309 :Hāi waz nît tevrêde täus en dârkîs tû râkniarm . He was not content at home and therefore he becamepoor . FromProto-Finnic *armo . Akin toFinnish armo .
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peace love Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013 ), “arm ”, inLīvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary ][5] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra FromOld Dutch arm , fromProto-West Germanic *arm , fromProto-Germanic *armaz .
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arm Strong masculine noun singular plural nominative arm arme accusative arm arme genitive arms arme dative arme armen
FromOld Dutch arm , fromProto-West Germanic *arm , fromProto-Germanic *armaz .
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poor , having fewpossessions unfortunate ,pitiable Adjective singular plural masculine feminine neuter nominative indefinite arm arme arm arme definite arme arme accusative indefinite armen arme arm arme definite arme genitive indefinite arms armer arms armer definite arms ,armen arms ,armen dative armen armer armen armen
FromOld English earm ( “ arm ” ) , fromProto-West Germanic *arm , fromProto-Germanic *armaz ( “ arm ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *arəm- ( “ arm ” ) .
arm (plural arms )
arm FromOld English earm ( “ poor, wretched ” ) , fromProto-West Germanic *arm , fromProto-Germanic *armaz ( “ poor ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *erm- ( “ poor, ill ” ) .
arm
poor miserable ,wretched FromOld Norse armr .
arm (neuter singular armt ,definite singular and plural arme )
poor arm m (definite singular armen ,indefinite plural armer ,definite plural armene )
( anatomy ) anarm “arm” inThe Bokmål Dictionary .FromOld Norse armr m , fromProto-Germanic *armaz m . Akin toEnglish arm .
arm m (definite singular armen ,indefinite plural armar ,definite plural armane )
( anatomy ) anarm FromOld Norse armr , fromProto-Germanic *armaz .
arm (neuter armt ,definite singular and plural arme ,comparative armare ,indefinite superlative armast ,definite superlative armaste )
poor ,pitiful ( to be pitied ) “arm” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary .FromProto-West Germanic *arm , fromProto-Germanic *armaz .
arm m
arm Declension ofarm (masculine a-stem noun)
“arm (I) ”, inOudnederlands Woordenboek ,2012 FromProto-West Germanic *arm , fromProto-Germanic *armaz .
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poor Declension ofarm (a-stem)
“arm (II) ”, inOudnederlands Woordenboek ,2012 FromProto-West Germanic *arm , fromProto-Germanic *armaz ( “ arm ” ) , whence alsoOld High German arm ,Old Norse armr .
arm m ( Anglian )
alternative form ofearm Stronga -stem:
FromProto-West Germanic *arm , fromProto-Germanic *armaz , fromProto-Indo-European *h₂ermos ,*h₂ŕ̥mos , whence alsoOld English arm ,Old Norse armr .
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( anatomy ) arm FromProto-West Germanic *arm , fromProto-Germanic *armaz , whence alsoOld English earm ,Old Norse armr .
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poor ,miserable Strong declension ofarm singular masculine feminine neuter nominative armēr, arm armiu, arm armaȥ, arm accusative arman arma armaȥ, arm genitive armes armera armes dative armemu armeru armemu instrumental armu — armu plural masculine feminine neuter nominative arme, arm armo, arm armiu, arm accusative arme armo armiu, arm genitive armero armero armero dative armēm armēm armēm
Weak declension ofarm singular masculine feminine neuter nominative armo arma arma accusative armon armūn arma genitive armen armūn armen dative armen armūn armen plural masculine feminine neuter nominative armon armūn armon accusative armon armūn armon genitive armōno armōno armōno dative armōm armōm armōm
Declension of comparative ofarm singular masculine feminine neuter nominative armōro armōra armōra accusative armōron armōrūn armōra genitive armōren armōrūn armōren dative armōren armōrūn armōren plural masculine feminine neuter nominative armōron armōrūn armōron accusative armōron armōrūn armōron genitive armōrōno armōrōno armōrōno dative armōrōm armōrōm armōrōm
Strong declension of superlativearm singular masculine feminine neuter nominative armōstēr, armōst armōstiu, armōst armōstaȥ, armōst accusative armōstan armōsta armōstaȥ, armōst genitive armōstes armōstera armōstes dative armōstemu armōsteru armōstemu instrumental armōstu — armōstu plural masculine feminine neuter nominative armōste, armōst armōsto, armōst armōstiu, armōst accusative armōste armōsto armōstiu, armōst genitive armōstero armōstero armōstero dative armōstēm armōstēm armōstēm
Weak declension of superlativearm singular masculine feminine neuter nominative armōsto armōsta armōsta accusative armōston armōstūn armōsta genitive armōsten armōstūn armōsten dative armōsten armōstūn armōsten plural masculine feminine neuter nominative armōston armōstūn armōston accusative armōston armōstūn armōston genitive armōstōno armōstōno armōstōno dative armōstōm armōstōm armōstōm
Joseph Wright,An Old High German Primer FromProto-West Germanic *arm , fromProto-Germanic *armaz , whence alsoOld English earm ,Old Norse armr .
arm m
arm FromProto-West Germanic *arm , fromProto-Germanic *armaz , whence alsoOld English earm ,Old Norse armr .
arm (comparative armoro ,superlative armost )
miserable ,poor Declension ofarm Strong declension singular plural masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine nominative arm arm arm arme armu arme accusative armana arm arma arme armu arme genitive armes armes armaro armarō armarō armarō dative armumu armumu armaro armum armum armum Weak declension singular plural masculine neuter feminine nominative armo arma arma armu accusative armun arma armun armun genitive armun armun armun armonō dative armun armun armun armum
Comparative forms ofarm (weak only) singular plural masculine neuter feminine nominative armoro armora armora armoru accusative armorun armora armorun armorun genitive armorun armorun armorun armoronō dative armorun armorun armorun armorum
Superlative forms ofarm Strong declension singular plural masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine nominative armost armost armost armoste armoste armostu accusative armostana armost armosta armoste armoste armostu genitive armostes armostes armostaro armostarō armostarō armostarō dative armostumu armostumu armostaro armostum armostum armostum Weak declension singular plural masculine neuter feminine nominative armosto armosta armosta armostu accusative armostun armosta armostun armostun genitive armostun armostun armostun armostonō dative armostun armostun armostun armostum
Low German:arm ( also Lippisch ) FromLatin armus , fromProto-Indo-European *h₂er- ( “ to join ” ) .
arm n (plural armuri )
( chiefly Oltenia ) an animal'shaunch , or athigh on a personSynonyms: coapsă ,șold FromMiddle English arm , fromOld English earm ( “ arm ” ) , fromProto-West Germanic *arm , fromProto-Germanic *armaz ( “ arm ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *h₂er-mo- ( “ arm ” ) .
arm (plural arms )
arm arm of thesea bar ,beam FromMiddle English arm ( “ poor ” ) , fromOld English earm ( “ poor ” ) , fromProto-West Germanic *arm , fromProto-Germanic *armaz ( “ poor ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *erm- ( “ poor, ill ” ) .
arm (comparative mair arm ,superlative maist arm )
poor ;wretched weak ;thin ;sickly arm (third-person singular simple present arms ,present participle armin ,simple past and past participle armt )
( intransitive ) tocrawl about miserably.FromMiddle English armen ( “ to arm ” ) , fromOld French armer ( “ to arm ” ) , fromLatin armō ( “ to arm ” ) . More atarm .
arm (third-person singular simple present arms ,present participle armin ,simple past and past participle armt )
toarm ,outfit with weapons orarmour FromOld Norse armr ( “ wing of a body ” ) .
arm (plural arms )
( Shetland ) thetail end of something, especially of fishing lineFromOld Irish arm n ( “ armour, battle-equipment, panoply; weapon; army ” ) , fromLatin arma .
arm m (genitive singular airm ,plural airm )
army Synonym: armailt arm ,weapon Arm is usually used to refer to the entire fighting force of a nation etc, whilearmailt usually refers to the an "army" involved in a particular battle etc:Arm Bhreatainn anns a' Chogadh Mhòr ―British Army in the First World War( the armed forces as a whole ) armailt Bhreatannach ann an Afraga ―British Army in Africa Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Edward Dwelly (1911 ), “arm ”, inFaclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary ], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited,→ISBN Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019 ), “arm ”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language arm Click on labels in the image
FromOld Norse armr ( “ arm ” ) , fromProto-Germanic *armaz , fromProto-Indo-European *h₂ermos ,*h₂ŕ̥mos .
arm c
( anatomy ) arm ; thebody part arm ; somethingextending from abody FromOld Norse armr ( “ poor ” ) , fromProto-Germanic *armaz , fromProto-Indo-European *h₁ormos .
arm (comparative armare ,superlative armast )
( dated ) poor ; to bepitied Synonym: stackars ( dated ) poor ; with nopossessions ormoney Synonym: fattig 1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.2 Dated or archaic.3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
arm
water The Papuan Languages of New Guinea (1986,→ISBN ) (asarɨm )William A. Foley,The Yimas Language of New Guinea (1991,→ISBN ), page 296:arm tark kantk-rm ima-na-tɨ-n water coldness with-water water S-DEF-becomes-PRES 'The water is getting cold.'