arm

arm

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2/B language code for Armenian.

• (UK) enPR: äm, IPA^(key): /ɑːm/
• (US) enPR: ärm, IPA^(key): /ɑɹm/
• (General Australian) enPR: äm, IPA^(key): /ɐːm/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)m

From Middle English arm, from Old English earm, from Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz (“arm”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“a fitting, joint; arm, forequarter”), a suffixed form of *h₂er- (“to join, fit together”).

arm (plural arms)

1. The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.

   She stood with her right arm extended and her palm forward to indicate “Stop!”

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The 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 the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.

2. (anatomy) The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow.

   The arm and forearm are parts of the upper limb in the human body.

3. A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.

   the arms of an octopus

4. The part of a piece of clothing that covers the arm.

   Synonym: sleeve

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 100”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 485:

     […] one arm of this jacket streamed behind him like the broidered arm of a huzzar’s surcoat.

   • 1970, J. G. Farrell, Troubles‎, New York: Knopf, published 1971, page 340:

     […] he noticed that a dark stain had appeared under the arm of her grey silk dress.

   • 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 82:

     Samad made a grab for the boy and caught him by the arm of his shirt.

5. 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.

   The robot arm reached out and placed the part on the assembly line.

6. (geography) A bay or inlet off a main body of water.

   Shelburne Bay is an arm of Lake Champlain.

7. A branch of an organization.

   the cavalry arm of the military service

   • 2018 April 25, Ron Nixon, “Scandals and Investigations, but Few Arrests, for Air Marshals Program”, in The New York Times‎:

     Congress has asked the Government Accountability Office, its investigative arm, to review the workplace complaints raised by air marshals, said Charles Young, a spokesman for the office.

8. (figurative) Power; might; strength; support.

   the arm of the law

   the secular arm

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 52:1:

     To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?

9. (baseball, slang) A pitcher

   The team needs to sign another arm in the offseason.

10. (genetics) One of the two parts of a chromosome.
11. A group of patients in a medical trial.

arm (third-person singular simple present arms, present participle arming, simple past and past participle armed)

1. (obsolete) To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms.
   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

     And make him with our pikes and partisans / A grave: come, arm him.

   • 1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson;  […], published 1634, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Arm your prize; / I know you will not lose him.

From Middle English arm (“poor, wretched”), from Old English earm (“poor, miserable, pitiful, wretched”), from Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz (“poor”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁erm- (“poor, ill”).

arm (comparative armer or more arm, superlative armest or most arm)

1. (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Poor; lacking in riches or wealth.
2. (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To be pitied; pitiful; wretched.

• armth

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Back-formation from arms (plural), from Middle English armes, from Old French armes, from Latin arma (“weapons”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-mo-, a suffixed form of *h₂er- (“to fit together”), hence ultimately cognate with etymology 1.

arm (plural arms)

1. (usually used in the plural) A weapon.
   • 1789, Second Amendment to the United States Constitution:

     A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

     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.

2. (in the plural) Heraldic bearings or insignia.

   The Duke's arms were a sable gryphon rampant on an argent field.

3. (in the plural, obsolete) War; hostilities; deeds or exploits of war.

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

• See also Thesaurus:weapon

arm (third-person singular simple present arms, present participle arming, simple past and past participle armed)

1. (transitive) To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.

   The king armed his knights with swords and shields.

   • 2015, George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons, Bantam, →ISBN, page 593:

     They were arming 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].

2. (transitive, figurative) To supply with the equipment, knowledge, authority, or other tools needed for a particular task; to furnish with capability; to equip.
   • 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:

     thou getteſt no more of me.
     For I am ſure thy Office doth not arme thee with ſuch authoritie.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Peter 4:1:

     arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

   • 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, page 43:

     [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, page 119:

     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, page 215:

     Picture taking soothed support troops' anxieties twice over, empowering them as they navigated a strange environment, and arming them with proof that they really had served in a war.

   • 2014, Susan Fawcett, Grassroots with Readings: The Writer's Workbook, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 466:

     […] and arming them with skills, work habits, and inner confidence that no one can ever take away.

3. (transitive) To prepare (a tool, weapon, or system) for action; to activate.

   Remember to arm the alarm system before leaving for work.

4. (intransitive, of a tool, weapon, or system) To become prepared for action; to activate.
   • 2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 14:43 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN)‎, archived from the original on 17 October 2022:

     Torpedoes were loosed, but the range was too short for them to actually arm, and they bounced harmlessly off the ship as it cut loose with its secondary and antiaircraft guns, smashing anything that it could see.

5. (transitive) To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency.

   to arm the hit of a sword; to arm a hook in angling

6. (intransitive) To take up weapons; to arm oneself.
7. (transitive) To fit (a magnet) with an armature.

• (furnish with weapons): beweapon

• -mar-, AMR, MAR, MRA, Mar, Mar., RAM, RMA, Ram, mar, mar-, ram

From Dutch arm.

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arm (plural arms)

1. arm

From Middle High German arm, from Old High German arm, from Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz (“arm”). Cognate with German Arm, English arm.

arm m (plural èrme)

1. (Sette Comuni) arm

   An langar arm rékhet béetor. ― A long arm can reach further.

• èrmel

From Middle High German arm, from Old High German arm, from Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz (“poor, pitiful”). Cognate with German arm, English arm.

arm (comparative èrmor, superlative dar èrmorste)

1. (Sette Comuni, Luserna) poor

   Bèar is arm hat nicht so borliran. ― He who is poor has nothing to lose.

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

• armakhot, èrmakhot
• èrmar stòkh

• “arm” in Martalar, 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

• IPA^(key): /arm/, [ɑːˀm]

From Old Norse armr (“arm”), from Proto-Germanic *armaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-mo- (“arm”).

arm c (singular definite armen, plural indefinite arme)

1. (anatomy) arm

From Old Norse armr (“arm, poor”), from Proto-Germanic *armaz (“poor”).

arm

1. (dated) poor, not rich

   Synonym: fattig

2. unfortunate, poor

   Synonym: stakkels

• arm on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• Arm (flertydig) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

• IPA^(key): /ɑrm/

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• Hyphenation: arm
• Rhymes: -ɑrm

From Middle Dutch arm, from Old Dutch arm, from Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz (“arm”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“a fitting, joint”), a suffixed form of *h₂er- (“to join, fit together”). Cognate to Avestan 𐬀𐬭𐬨𐬀 (arma) and Old Persian [script needed] (arma).

arm m (plural armen, diminutive armpje n)

1. arm

   Iemand kneep in mijn arm.

   Someone pinched my arm.

2. branch (especially of streams and organisations)

• Afrikaans: arm
• Javindo: arrem
• Negerhollands: arm, erm

From Middle Dutch arm, from Old Dutch arm, from Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erH- (“to be sparse”).

arm (comparative armer, superlative armst)

1. poor (not rich)

   arme landen ― poor countries

2. poor (unfortunate)

   arme stakker… ― poor soul…

• Afrikaans: arm
• Berbice Creole Dutch: arum
• Jersey Dutch: arm
• Negerhollands: aerm
• Petjo: arm

• ram

arm

1. (Erzgebirgisch, intransitive) to work

   Synonym: arbittn

• 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, 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, 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 17:

From Proto-Finnic *arpi; arm is an irregular variant of the root; the expected arb can be seen in dialects.

arm (genitive armi, partitive armi)

1. scar

From Proto-Finnic *armo. Most likely derived from armas. Cognate to Votic armo (“grace, mercy”).

arm (genitive armu, partitive armu)

1. mercy
2. pardon
3. (poetic) love, affection

arm

1. indefinite accusative singular of armur

From Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erH- (“to be sparse”) or alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰ-, whence English orphan.

• IPA^(key): [aʁm]

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arm (strong nominative masculine singular armer, comparative ärmer, superlative am ärmsten)

1. poor (having little money)
2. poor (to be pitied)

   arm dran sein ― to have bad luck

   lieber arm dran als Arm ab ― better to have bad luck than to lose an arm [the play on words is lost in translation]

3. low (having a small amount)

• reich

• Armenkasse
• Armenkrankenhaus
• Arme Ritter
• armes Würstchen

• “arm” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “arm” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “arm” in Duden online

arm

1. indefinite accusative singular of armur

From Old Irish arm n (“armour, battle-equipment, panoply; weapon; army”), from Latin arma.[1]

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɾˠəmˠ/[2][3]
• (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈaɾˠəmˠ/[4]

arm m (genitive singular airm, nominative plural airm)

1. weapon; implement, tool
2. (collective) arms
3. army

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “arm”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “arm”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 40
• Entries containing “arm” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “arm” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

• ārm

From Dutch arm. Cognates include Afrikaans arm.

• IPA^(key): /ɑrm/

arm

1. poor
   • 1912, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche taal— en letterkunde, volumes 31-32, page 309:

     Hāi waz nît tevrêde täus en dârkîs tû râkni arm. […] |He was not content at home and therefore he became poor.

From Proto-Finnic *armo. Akin to Finnish armo.

arm

1. peace
2. love

From Old Irish arm n (“armour, battle-equipment, panoply; weapon; army”), from Latin arma.

arm m (genitive singular arm, plural armyn)

1. arm, weapon, armament

arm (verbal noun armal, past participle garmal)

1. arm

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “arm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /arm/

From Old Dutch arm, from Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz.

arm m

1. arm

• ārem
• āerm

• Dutch: arm
  • Afrikaans: arm
  • Javindo: arrem
  • Negerhollands: arm, erm
• Limburgish: erm

• “arm (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “arm (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

From Old Dutch arm, from Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz.

arm

1. poor, having few possessions
2. unfortunate, pitiable

• ārem

• Dutch: arm
  • Afrikaans: arm
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: arum
  • Jersey Dutch: arm
  • Negerhollands: aerm
  • Petjo: arm
• Limburgish: erm

• “arm (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “arm (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

From Old English earm (“arm”), from Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz (“arm”), from Proto-Indo-European *arəm- (“arm”).

• arum, harm, erm, herm

arm (plural arms)

1. arm

• English: arm
• Scots: airm
• Yola: arrm

• “arm, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old English earm (“poor, wretched”), from Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz (“poor”), from Proto-Indo-European *erm- (“poor, ill”).

arm

1. poor
2. miserable, wretched

• English: arm
• Scots: arm

• “arm, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old Norse armr.

arm (neuter singular armt, definite singular and plural arme)

1. poor

arm m (definite singular armen, indefinite plural armer, definite plural armene)

1. (anatomy) an arm

• “arm” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑrm/

From Old Norse armr m, from Proto-Germanic *armaz m. Akin to English arm.

arm m (definite singular armen, indefinite plural armar, definite plural armane)

1. (anatomy) an arm

From Old Norse armr, from Proto-Germanic *armaz.

arm (neuter armt, definite singular and plural arme, comparative armare, indefinite superlative armast, definite superlative armaste)

1. poor, pitiful (to be pitied)

• arming

• “arm” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• mar, ram

From Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz.

arm m

1. arm

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Middle Dutch: arm
  • Dutch: arm
    • Afrikaans: arm
    • Javindo: arrem
    • Negerhollands: arm, erm
  • Limburgish: erm

• “arm (I)”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz.

arm

1. poor

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

• armo

• Middle Dutch: arm
  • Dutch: arm
    • Afrikaans: arm
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: arum
    • Jersey Dutch: arm
    • Negerhollands: aerm
    • Petjo: arm
  • Limburgish: erm

• “arm (II)”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

• earm

From Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz (“arm”), whence also Old High German arm, Old Norse armr.

• IPA^(key): /ɑrm/, [ɑrˠm]

arm m

1. Alternative form of earm

• aram, arma

• IPA^(key): /arm/

From Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ermos, *h₂ŕ̥mos, whence also Old English arm, Old Norse armr.

arm m

1. (anatomy) arm