# garment
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English garment, garement, garnement, from Old French garnement, guarnement, from Old French garnir, guarnir (“to protect, fortify, clothe, garnish, adorn”), from Frankish *warnijan (“to ward off, refuse, deny”). More at English garnish.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈɡɑɹ.mənt/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɡɑː.mənt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: gar‧ment

### Noun

garment (plural garments)
* A single item of clothing.
** 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
* (figurative) The visible exterior in which a thing is invested or embodied.
** 2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 241:The highest state in which the soul completely casts away its garment of flesh and becomes a disembodied spirit.
* (Mormonism) Short for temple garment.

#### Hyponyms

* See also Thesaurus:clothing

#### Derived terms

* constant-wear garment
* foundation garment
* garment bag
* garmentless
* garmentmaker
* garmentmaking
* garmento
* garmenture
* garmentworker
* kiss the hem of someone's garment
* lower garment
* nethergarment
* outer garment
* outgarment
* overgarment
* rend one's garments
* touch the hem of someone's garment
* undergarment
* ungarment
* upper garment

#### Related terms

* garnish
* garrison

#### Translations

Albanian: petk (sq)
Arabic: لِبَاس (ar) m (libās), مَلَابِس m pl (malābis), ثَوْب (ṯawb)
Egyptian Arabic: هدمة f (hedma), هدوم f pl (hedūm)
Armenian: շոր (hy) (šor)
Aromanian: vishtimintu n, nviscãmindu n, stranj n, stranjiu n, alãxãmintu n, stoli, custumi
Asturian: prenda f
Azerbaijani: paltar (az), geyim (az)
Bulgarian: дре́ха (bg) f (dréha), оде́жда (bg) f (odéžda) (clothing, clothes)
Catalan: peça (ca) f
Central Sierra Miwok: ˀyká·py-
Chinese:
Mandarin: 衣服 (zh), 服装 (zh) (fúzhuāng)
Czech: oděv (cs) m
Dalmatian: vestemiant
Dutch: kledingstuk (nl) n
Egyptian: (mnḫt), (ḥbs m)
Esperanto: vesto (eo), vestaĵo (eo)
Estonian: riie, rõivas
Finnish: vaate (fi), vaatekappale (fi)
French: vêtement (fr) m
Galician: vestido m, peza (gl) f, roupa (gl) f, fatelo m
Georgian: ტანსაცმელი (ṭansacmeli), ტანისამოსი (ṭanisamosi), სამოსი (ka) (samosi), სამოსელი (ka) (samoseli)
German: Kleidungsstück (de) n
Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌹 f (wasti)
Greek: ρούχο (el) n (roúcho)
Ancient: ἱμάτιον n (himátion)
Hebrew: מד (he) (mád), בֶּגֶד (he) (béged)
Hungarian: ruha (hu), öltözet (hu)
Icelandic: flík (is) f, spjör f
Ido: vesto (io)
Italian: vestito (it) m, indumento (it) m, capo (it) m, abito (it) m
Latin: vestīmentum n, indūmentum n
Macedonian: а́лиште n (álište)
Maori: weru, pakikau, kākahu, kowheka, kōwhekawheka, whekawheka, mai, ko(w)heka
Maranao: ba'ag, salombagay
Middle English: garnement
Navajo: ééʼ
Ngazidja Comorian: nguo class 9/10
Norwegian: plagg (no) n, klesplagg (no) n
Old English: hræġl n, wǣd f
Persian: جامه (fa) (jâme)
Plautdietsch: Kjleet n
Polish: ubranie (pl) n
Portuguese: peça de roupa f, roupa (pt) f, veste (pt) f, indumento (pt) m
Punjabi: ਜਾਮਾ m (jāmā)
Romani: gad m
Romanian: rufe (ro) f pl, haină (ro), veșmânt (ro), articol de îmbrăcăminte n
Russian: предме́т одежды m (predmét odeždy), оде́жда (ru) f (odéžda) (clothing, clothes)
Sanskrit: वस्मन् (sa) n (vasman), वस्त्र (sa) m (vastra)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ру̏хо n
Roman: rȕho (sh) n
Spanish: prenda (es) f, prenda de vestir f, pilcha (es) f (South America)
Swahili: nguo (sw) class 9/10, vazi (sw)
Swedish: klädesplagg (sv) n, plagg (sv) n, persedel (sv) c
Telugu: వస్త్రము (te) (vastramu), బట్ట (te) (baṭṭa)
Tocharian B: wastsi
Ugaritic: 𐎍𐎁𐎌 (lbš)
Welsh: dilledyn (cy) m :

### Verb

garment (third-person singular simple present garments, present participle garmenting, simple past and past participle garmented)
* (transitive) To clothe in a garment.

#### Translations
### Further reading

* “garment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “garment”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “garment”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* margent

## Middle English
### Noun

garment
* Alternative form of garnement