Arm

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , from , a suffixed form of.

Akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. Indo-European cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.
 * 2)  The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow.
 * 3) A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
 * 4) A long, narrow, more or less rigid part of an object extending from the main part or centre of the object, such as the arm of an armchair, a crane, a pair of spectacles or a pair of compasses.
 * 5)  A bay or inlet off a main body of water.
 * 6) A branch of an organization.
 * 7)  Power; might; strength; support.
 * To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
 * 1)  A pitcher
 * 2)  One of the two parts of a chromosome.
 * 3) A group of patients in a medical trial.
 * 1) A branch of an organization.
 * 2)  Power; might; strength; support.
 * To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
 * 1)  A pitcher
 * 2)  One of the two parts of a chromosome.
 * 3) A group of patients in a medical trial.
 * To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
 * 1)  A pitcher
 * 2)  One of the two parts of a chromosome.
 * 3) A group of patients in a medical trial.
 * 1) A group of patients in a medical trial.

Verb

 * 1)  To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms.
 * 2) * 1634, attributed to and, 
 * Arm your prize; / I know you will not lose him.
 * Arm your prize; / I know you will not lose him.

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from , from.

Akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1)  Poor; lacking in riches or wealth.
 * 2)  To be pitied; pitiful; wretched.

Etymology 3
, from, from , from 🇨🇬, from , a suffixed form of , hence ultimately cognate with etymology 1.

Noun

 * 1)  A weapon.
 * 2) * 1883,, 
 * The next thing I laid hold of was a brace of pistols, and as I already had a powder horn and bullets, I felt myself well supplied with arms.
 * 1)  Heraldic bearings or insignia.
 * 2)  War; hostilities; deeds or exploits of war.
 * 1)  War; hostilities; deeds or exploits of war.

Usage notes

 * Pubs and taverns often use this word in their names, as a reference to heraldic bearings, e.g. The Queen's Arms.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:weapon

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: سِلَاح
 * Armenian: ,
 * Breton:, armoù
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: armilo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: ὅπλον
 * Guaraní: mboka
 * Hebrew:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: arma
 * Interlingue: arme
 * Irish: arm
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:


 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Latin:, telum
 * Low German: Wapen
 * Macedonian: оружје
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: оружје
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ఆయుఇధం
 * Thai:
 * Tupinambá: popesûara
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: (武器)
 * Volapük: ,


 * Danish:, våbenmærke, våbenskjold
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Irish: armas
 * Italian:


 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Slovak:
 * Swahili:

Verb

 * 1)  To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.
 * The king armed his knights with swords and shields.
 * 1)  To prepare a tool or a weapon for action; to activate.
 * 2)  To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency.
 * 3)  To furnish with means of defence; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense.
 * arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
 * 1)  To take up weapons; to arm oneself.
 * 2)  To fit (a magnet) with an armature.
 * arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
 * 1)  To take up weapons; to arm oneself.
 * 2)  To fit (a magnet) with an armature.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: armãtusescu
 * Bulgarian: въоръжавам
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, udruste
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: haarniskoida ; ;
 * French:
 * Friulian: armâ
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: ὁπλίζω
 * Gullah: aa’m
 * Ido:
 * Interlingue: armar
 * Irish: armáil
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Latin: armo
 * Maori: whakamaurākau
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: væpne
 * Nynorsk: væpna, væpne
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: ġewǣpnian
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,  ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: armaich
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:, , ,
 * Slovak: vyzbrojiť, ozbrojiť
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai: ติดอาวุธ


 * Albanian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Italian:


 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic: armaich
 * Slovak: zapnúť, aktivovať
 * Swahili:


 * Finnish: ,


 * Finnish:


 * Slovak: vyzbrojiť


 * Finnish: varustaa ankkurilla

Etymology
From.

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  arm

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1)  poor

Declension
This adjective has irregular declension; positive inflected forms also have umlaut.

Etymology 1
From, from , from.

Etymology 2
From, from.

Adjective

 * 1)  poor, not rich
 * 2) unfortunate, poor
 * 1) unfortunate, poor

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , from , a suffixed form of. Cognate to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from , perhaps from.

Adjective

 * 1) poor (not rich)
 * 2) poor (unfortunate)
 * 1) poor (unfortunate)

Etymology 1
From ; arm is an irregular variant of the root; the expected arb can be seen in dialects.

Noun

 * 1) scar

Etymology 2
Most likely derived from. Cognate to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) mercy

Etymology
From, from , perhaps from or alternatively from Proto-Indo-European , whence English.

Adjective

 * 1) poor having little money
 * 2) poor to be pitied
 * 3) low having a small amount
 * 1) low having a small amount
 * 1) low having a small amount

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) weapon; implement, tool
 * 2)  arms
 * 3) army

Etymology
From, from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) poor
 * 2) * 1912, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche taal— en letterkunde, volumes 31-32, page 309:
 * Hai waz nît tevrêde täus en dârkîs tû râkni arm. |He was not content at home and therefore he became poor.

Etymology
Akin to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) peace
 * 2) love

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * , weapon, armament

Etymology 1
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  arm

Etymology 2
From, from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) poor, having few possessions
 * 2) unfortunate, pitiable

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from.

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) poor
 * 2) miserable, wretched

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) poor

Noun

 * 1)  an

Etymology 1
From.

Adjective

 * 1) poor,  to be pitied

Etymology 2
From. Akin to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  an

Etymology 1
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  arm

Etymology 2
From, from.

Adjective

 * 1) poor

Etymology
From, from , whence also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Etymology 1
From, from , from , , whence also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  arm

Etymology 2
From, from , whence also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Etymology 1
From, from , whence also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) arm

Descendants

 * Hamburgisch:
 * Westphalian:
 * Ravensbergisch-Lippisch:
 * Sauerländisch:, ,
 * Westmünsterländisch:
 * Ravensbergisch-Lippisch:
 * Sauerländisch:, ,
 * Westmünsterländisch:

Etymology 2
From, from , whence also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  an animal's haunch, or a thigh on a person

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) arm of the sea
 * 2) bar, beam
 * 1) bar, beam

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) poor; wretched
 * 2) weak; thin; sickly

Verb

 * 1)  to crawl about miserably.

Etymology 3
From, from , from. More at arm.

Verb

 * 1) to, outfit with weapons or armour

Etymology 4
From.

Noun

 * 1) the tail end of something, especially of fishing line

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) army
 * , weapon
 * , weapon

Usage notes

 * Arm is usually used to refer to the entire fighting force of a nation etc, while armailt usually refers to the an "army" involved in a particular battle etc:

Etymology 1
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  ; the body part
 * 2) ; something extending from a body

Etymology 2
From, from , from.

Adjective

 * 1)  poor; to be pitied
 * 2)  poor; with no possessions or money

Noun

 * 1) water