# arma
## Albanian
### Noun

arma
* definite nominative singular of armë

## Aragonese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaɾma/
* Rhymes: -aɾma
* Syllabification: ar‧ma

### Noun

arma f (plural armas)
* weapon

### References

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

## Asturian
### Etymology

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

### Noun

arma f (plural armes)
* weapon

#### Derived terms

* arma blanca
* arma de fueu

#### Related terms

* armar

## Basque
### Etymology

Compare Spanish arma.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

arma inan
* weapon

#### Declension
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈar.mə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈaɾ.ma]
* Audio (Catalonia):(file)

### Etymology 1

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”).

#### Noun

arma f (plural armes)
* weapon

##### Derived terms

* arma blanca
* arma de foc
* cota d'armes

##### Related terms

* armada
* armadura
* armar
* armer

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

arma
* inflection of armar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “arma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “arma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “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.

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aʁ.ma/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

arma
* third-person singular past historic of armer

### Anagrams

* rama

## Fula
### Particle

arma
* (Literary) forms the future tense

### References

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

## Galician
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈaɾmɐ]

### Noun

arma f (plural armas)
* weapon, arm

#### Derived terms

* arma branca
* arma de fogo

#### Related terms

* armada
* armadura
* armar

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “arma”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “arma”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (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

## Gallurese
### Pronunciation

* (La Maddalena) IPA: /ˈarma/

### Noun

arma f (plural armi)
* (dialectal) Alternative form of alma (“weapon”)

### References

* ↑ Mauro Maxia (2012) Fonetica storica del gallurese e delle altre varietà sardocorse (in Sassarese), Editrice Taphros, →ISBN, page 73

## Gothic
### Romanization

arma
* Romanization of 𐌰𐍂𐌼𐌰

## Icelandic
### Noun

arma
* indefinite accusative plural of armur
* indefinite genitive plural of armur

## Interlingua
### Noun

arma (plural armas)
* weapon, arm

#### Related terms

* armea

## Irish
### Noun

arma
* inflection of arm:
** vocative plural
** (archaic) nominative plural

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈar.ma/
* Rhymes: -arma
* Hyphenation: àr‧ma

### Etymology 1

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”).

#### Noun

arma f (plural armi or (archaic or poetic) arme)
* weapon, arms
* (military) arm, force

##### Derived terms

* arma bianca
* arma da fuoco
* armaiolo
* armeggiare
* armeria
* armiere
* porto d'armi

##### Related terms

* armacollo
* armadio
* armamentario
* armamento
* armare
* armata
* armatore
* armatura
* armigero
* armistizio

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

arma
* inflection of armare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* amar, marà, rama

## Latin
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

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

#### Noun

arma n pl (genitive armōrum); second declension
(plural only)
* arms, weapons of war, weaponry, instruments (implements of warfare)
    Hypernym: tēla (“offensive weapons”)
** 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 29.4.2.3:mūnīre urbem, frūmentum convehere, tēla arma parāreto 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.
** defensive arms: armour, shields (etc.)
** close-quarter weapons (offensive or defensive)
    Antonym: tēla (“missiles”)
** (poetic) missile weapons
    Synonym: tēla
* (metonymically) military action, war (arms as instruments of policy)
* (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.)
* (metonymically) troops, military forces, the army
* weapons as means of defence
* (by extension) tools, equipment
    Synonym: armāmenta

##### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

##### Derived terms

* armāmenta
* armārium
* armiductor
* armifer
* armiger
* armilausa
* armipotēns
* armisonus
* armō
* coarmiō
* inermis

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

arma f (genitive armae); first declension
* (Late Latin) a piece of weaponry

##### Declension

First-declension noun.

##### Descendants

* Dalmatian: jarma
* Eastern Romance:
** Aromanian: armã
** Istro-Romanian: årmĕ
** Romanian: armă
* Extremaduran: arma
* Italian: arma
* Navarro-Aragonese:
** Aragonese: arma
* Old French: arme
** Middle French: arme
*** French: arme
** Norman: arme
** → Breton: arm
** → Middle English: armes (via the plural)
*** English: arms
**** ⇒ English: arm (back-formation)
*** → Middle Irish: armas
**** Irish: armas
* Old Leonese:
** Asturian: arma
** Mirandese: arma
* Old Occitan: arma
** Catalan: arma
** Occitan: arma
* Old Galician-Portuguese: arma
** Fala: arma
** Galician: arma
** Portuguese: arma
* Old Spanish:
** Spanish: arma
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: arme
** Ladin: erma
** Romansch: arma
* Sardinian: àrma
* Sicilian: arma
** → Maltese: arma
* Venetan: arma
* → Albanian: armë
* → Proto-Brythonic: *arβ̃
** Middle Cornish: arvov pl
** Middle Welsh: arf, aryf
*** Welsh: arf
* → Old Irish: arm
** Irish: arm
** Scottish Gaelic: arm

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “arma, -ōrum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 54

### Further reading

* "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)

## Maltese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈar.ma/

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian arma.

#### Noun

arma f (plural armi)
* weapon (instrument of attack or defense in combat)
* weapon (means of harming or exerting control)
* (heraldry) coat of arms

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

arma (imperfect jarma, past participle armat, verbal noun armar)
* Alternative form of rama

##### Conjugation
#### Interjection

arma
* A command to speed up

### Related terms

* armament
* armar
* armata
* armatur
* armatura
* armerija
* armier
* rama

## Occitan
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

arma f (plural armas)
* weapon

#### Related terms

* armada
* armadura
* armar

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaɾ.ma/

### Noun

arma f (plural armas)
* weapon; arm

#### Related terms

* armado
* armadura
* armar

#### Descendants

* Fala: arma
* Galician: arma
* Portuguese: arma

### Further reading

* Universo Cantigas - "arma"

## Old Norse
### Etymology

From armr.

### Noun

arma f (genitive ǫrmu, plural ǫrmur)
* pity

#### Declension
### Further reading

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

## Old Occitan
### Etymology

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

### Noun

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

#### Related terms

* armar
* armat

#### Descendants

* Occitan: arma

### References

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

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈaʁ.mɐ/ [ˈaɦ.mɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈaʁ.mɐ/ [ˈaɦ.mɐ]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˈaɾ.mɐ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈaʁ.mɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈaɻ.ma/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈaɾ.mɐ/
* (Northeast Brazil) IPA: /ah.mɐ/, /ah.ma/
* Audio (São Paulo):(file)
* Rhymes: (Brazil) -aʁmɐ, (Portugal) -aɾmɐ
* Hyphenation: ar‧ma

### Etymology 1

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.

#### Noun

arma f (plural armas)
* weapon
    Synonym: armamento

##### Derived terms

* arma automática
* arma biológica
* arma branca
* arma de fogo
* arma nuclear
* arma química
* arma semiautomática
* mostrar as armas

##### Related terms

* armação
* armada
* armadilha
* armado
* armador
* armamentário
* armamentismo
* armamentista
* armamento
* armar
* armaria
* armeiro

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

arma
* inflection of armar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

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

## Quechua
### Noun

arma
* basin, sink, bathtub
* the Big Dipper

#### See also

* armay

## Romanian
### Etymology 1

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

#### Verb

a arma (third-person singular present armează, past participle armat) 1st conjugation
* to prepare a weapon for firing
* to arm, equip
    Synonyms: înarma, întrarma
* (figuratively) to strengthen by adding reinforcement (e.g. armor, a mineshaft, etc.)

##### Related terms

* armadă
* armare
* armată
* armă
* armătură

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from French armer.

#### Verb

a arma (third-person singular present armează, past participle armat) 1st conjugation
* to launch a ship in service with all necessary equipment

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

arma
* definite nominative/accusative singular of armă

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaɾma/ [ˈaɾ.ma]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɾma
* Syllabification: ar‧ma

### Etymology 1

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”).

#### Noun

arma f (plural armas)
* weapon, arm
    El arma secreta ― the secret weapon
    Las armas secretas ― the secret weapons

##### Usage notes

* Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like arma take the singular definite article 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.
    These nouns also usually take the indefinite article un that is otherwise used with masculine nouns (although the standard feminine form una is also permitted): 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.) 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.

##### Derived terms

* a las armas
* al arma
* antiarma
* arma biológica
* arma blanca
* arma de asedio
* arma de destrucción masiva
* arma de doble filo
* arma de dos filos
* arma de fogueo
* arma de fuego
* arma de percusión
* arma homicida
* arma nuclear
* arma química
* armería
* armero
* con las armas en la mano
* de armas tomar
* dejar las armas
* descansar armas
* descansar las armas
* descansar sobre las armas
* en armas
* entregar las armas
* escudo de armas
* fiesta de armas
* hacha de armas
* hecho de armas
* hombre de armas
* maestro de armas
* medir las armas
* paje de armas
* plaza de armas
* ponerse en arma
* probar las armas
* rendir las armas
* rey de armas
* sobre las armas
* suspensión de armas
* tomar armas
* tomar las armas
* trance de armas
* ujier de armas
* velar las armas

##### Related terms

* alarma
* armada
* armadura
* armar
* armario
* armiguero

##### Descendants

* → Basque: arma

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

arma
* inflection of armar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “arma”, in Diccionario 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

### Anagrams

* amar, rama

## Swedish
### Adjective

arma
* inflection of arm:
** definite singular
** plural

### Anagrams

* aram., mara, rama

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish آرما, آرمه (arma), from Italian arma.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aɾˈma/
* Rhymes: -a
* Hyphenation: ar‧ma
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

arma (definite accusative armayı, plural armalar)
* coat of arms

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
arma
armalar
definite accusative
armayı
armaları
dative
armaya
armalara
locative
armada
armalarda
ablative
armadan
armalardan
genitive
armanın
armaların
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
armam
armalarım
2nd singular
arman
armaların
3rd singular
arması
armaları
1st plural
armamız
armalarımız
2nd plural
armanız
armalarınız
3rd plural
armaları
armaları
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
armamı
armalarımı
2nd singular
armanı
armalarını
3rd singular
armasını
armalarını
1st plural
armamızı
armalarımızı
2nd plural
armanızı
armalarınızı
3rd plural
armalarını
armalarını
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
armama
armalarıma
2nd singular
armana
armalarına
3rd singular
armasına
armalarına
1st plural
armamıza
armalarımıza
2nd plural
armanıza
armalarınıza
3rd plural
armalarına
armalarına
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
armamda
armalarımda
2nd singular
armanda
armalarında
3rd singular
armasında
armalarında
1st plural
armamızda
armalarımızda
2nd plural
armanızda
armalarınızda
3rd plural
armalarında
armalarında
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
armamdan
armalarımdan
2nd singular
armandan
armalarından
3rd singular
armasından
armalarından
1st plural
armamızdan
armalarımızdan
2nd plural
armanızdan
armalarınızdan
3rd plural
armalarından
armalarından
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
armamın
armalarımın
2nd singular
armanın
armalarının
3rd singular
armasının
armalarının
1st plural
armamızın
armalarımızın
2nd plural
armanızın
armalarınızın
3rd plural
armalarının
armalarının :