arma

arma

1. definite nominative singular of armë

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

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

arma f (plural armas)

1. weapon

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

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

arma f (plural armes)

1. weapon

• arma blanca
• arma de fueu

• armar

Compare Spanish arma.

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arma inan

1. weapon

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

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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”).

arma f (plural armes)

1. weapon

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

arma

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

• “arma”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “arma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “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.

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ma/

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arma

1. third-person singular past historic of armer

• rama

arma

1. (Literary) forms the future tense

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾma/ [ˈaɾ.mɐ]
• Rhymes: -aɾma
• Hyphenation: ar‧ma

arma f (plural armas)

1. weapon, arm

• arma branca
• arma de fogo

• “arma”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “arma”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “arma”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “arma”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “arma”, in Dicionario 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”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “arma”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• (La Maddalena) IPA^(key): /ˈarma/^[1]

arma f (plural armi)

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

arma

1. romanization of 𐌰𐍂𐌼𐌰

arma

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

arma (plural armas)

1. weapon, arm

• armea

arma

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

Inherited from Late Latin arma (“weapon”), from Latin arma (“defensive arms, weapons of war, war, defense, tools”).

arma f

1. weapon

• Sandro Cergna (2015), Vocabolario del dialetto di Valle d'Istria, →ISBN, page 28

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

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”).

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

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

arma

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

• amar, marà, rama

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”).^[1]

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

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

arma n pl (genitive armōrum); second declension (plural only)

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

   Hypernym: tēla (“offensive weapons”)

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 7.14:

     […] : mulis strata detrahi iubet binisque tantum centunculis relictis agasones partim captivis, partim aegrorum armis ornatos imponit.

     […] : he orders the mules to be stripped off their saddles and, leaving them only some two small pieces of patchwork to be sat on, be mounted with their muleteers carrying weapons taken from either the prisoners or the sick.

   • 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, [Chiron] looks at the club and the spoils of the lion, and says, “Man [worthy] 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 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) military action, war (arms as instruments of policy)
3. (abstract or concrete) warfare, battle (military exploits)
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.86-87:

     [...] nōn arma iuventūs / exercet, [...].

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

4. (metonymic) troops, military forces, the army
5. weapons as means of defence
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 (genitive armae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) a piece of weaponry

First-declension noun.

• “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.
• “arma” on page 187 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

• IPA^(key): /ˈar.ma/
• Rhymes: -arma

Borrowed from Italian arma.

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

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

1. alternative form of rama

arma

1. A command to speed up

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

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arma f (plural armas)

1. weapon

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾ.ma/

arma f (plural armas)

1. weapon; arm

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

• Universo Cantigas - "arma"

From armr.

arma f (genitive ǫrmu, plural ǫrmur)

1. pity

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

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

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

1. weapon

• armar
• armat

• Occitan: arma

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

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

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

Inherited 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”). Compare Galician arma.

arma f (plural armas)

1. weapon

   Synonym: armamento

• → Konkani: आर्म (ārma), आर्मा (ārmā)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

arma

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

• “arma”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “arma”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “arma”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “arma”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

arma

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

• armay

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

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

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.)

Borrowed from French armer.

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

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

arma

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of armă

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾ.ma/, [ˈaɾ.ma]
• Rhymes: -aɾma
• Hyphenation: àr‧ma

From Vulgar Latin *alima, dissimilation of Latin anima. Compare Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese alma. Doublet of ànima, borrowed from the same source.

• ànima

arma f (plural armi)

1. (religion, philosophy, also figurative) soul
2. the innermost part of something:
   1. (botany) synonym of cori (“heartwood”)

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”). Compare Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese arma.

arma f (plural armi)

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• jarma (diphthongized)

arma

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾma/ [ˈaɾ.ma]

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• Rhymes: -aɾma
• Syllabification: ar‧ma

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”).

arma f (plural armas)

1. weapon, arm

   El arma secreta ― the secret weapon

   Las armas secretas ― the secret weapons

   • 2023 July 24, Paul LeBlanc, Annette Choi, “ANÁLISIS | Estados Unidos supera los 400 tiroteos masivos en lo que va de 2023”, in CNN en Español‎^[1]:

     Casi 1 de cada 5 adultos estadounidenses ha tenido un familiar muerto por arma de fuego, incluidos homicidios y suicidios, según una encuesta realizada en 2023 por la KFF (antes conocida como Kaiser Family Foundation). […] “Este es el único país del mundo en el que los hombres que rompen con la realidad exorcizan sus demonios mediante matanzas masivas”, declaró a CNN a principios de este año el senador demócrata Chris Murphy, de Connecticut, que ha hecho de la legislación sobre seguridad de las armas uno de los ejes de su trabajo tras el tiroteo de 2012 en la escuela primaria Sandy Hook.

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• Before feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like arma, the singular definite article takes the form of el (otherwise reserved for masculine nouns) instead of the usual la: el arma. This includes the contracted forms al and del (instead of a la and de la, respectively): al arma, del arma.

This also applies to the indefinite article, which takes the form of un, which is otherwise used with masculine nouns (although the standard feminine form una also occurs): un arma or una arma. The same is true with determiners algún/alguna and ningún/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.) are used: la mejor arma, una buena arma.

• In these cases, el and un are not masculine but feminine, deriving from Latin illa and una, respectively, even though they are identical in form to the corresponding masculine singular articles. Thus, they are allomorphs of the feminine singular articles la and una.
• The use of these allomorphs does not change the gender agreement of the adjectives modifying the feminine noun: el arma única, un(a) arma buena.
• In the plural, the usual feminine plural articles and determiners (las, unas, etc.) are always used.

• → Basque: arma

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

arma

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

• “arma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• amar, rama

arma

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

• aram., mara, rama

From Ottoman Turkish آرما, آرمه (arma), from Italian arma, from Late Latin arma (“weapon”), from Latin arma (“defensive arms, weapons of war, war, defense, tools”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“fitting”). Doublet of alarm.

• IPA^(key): /aɾˈma/

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• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ar‧ma

arma (definite accusative armayı, plural armalar)

1. coat of arms

• “arma”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “arma”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “arma”, in Nişanyan Sözlük