arma

See also: armá, armà, armâ, armã, and armă

Albanian

Noun

arma

1. definite nominative singular of armë

Aragonese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

arma f (plural armas)

1. 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)

1. weapon

Derived terms

• arma blanca
• arma de fueu

Related terms

• armar

Basque

Etymology

Compare Spanish arma.

Pronunciation

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Noun

arma inan

1. weapon

Declension

Declension of arma (inanimate, ending in -a)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	arma	arma	armak
ergative	armak	armak	armek
dative	armari	armari	armei
genitive	armaren	armaren	armen
comitative	armarekin	armarekin	armekin
causative	armarengatik	armarengatik	armengatik
benefactive	armarentzat	armarentzat	armentzat
instrumental	armaz	armaz	armez
inessive	armatan	arman	armetan
locative	armatako	armako	armetako
allative	armatara	armara	armetara
terminative	armataraino	armaraino	armetaraino
directive	armatarantz	armarantz	armetarantz
destinative	armatarako	armarako	armetarako
ablative	armatatik	armatik	armetatik
partitive	armarik	—	—
prolative	armatzat	—	—

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Catalonia):

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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)

1. 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

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

Further reading

• “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, 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^(key): /aʁ.ma/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Verb

arma

1. third-person singular past historic of armer

Anagrams

• rama

Fula

Particle

arma

1. (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^(key): [ˈaɾmɐ]

Noun

arma f (plural armas)

1. 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