armrest

English

Etymology

From arm +‎ rest.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹmˌɹɛst/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

armrest (plural armrests)

1. Part of the seat of a chair that is designed to support the arm.
   • 2007 June 14, David Pogue, “Headphones to Shut Out the World”, in New York Times‎:

     Each comes in a carrying case that keeps the devices together with their accessories: the miniplug cable for your music or DVD player, for example, and the adapters for quarter-inch phono jacks and dual-pronged airplane armrest jacks.

Alternative forms

• arm rest

Related terms

• backrest
• bookrest
• footrest
• handrest
• headrest
• palmrest

Translations

part of a seat

Arabic: مِرْفَق (ar) m (mirfaq) Armenian: արմնկակալ (armnkakal) Belarusian: падлако́тнік m (padlakótnik) Catalan: reposabraços m Chinese: Mandarin: 椅子上的扶手 (yǐzi shàng de fúshǒu), 肘靠 (zhǒukào) Danish: armlæn (da) n Dutch: armleuning (nl) Esperanto: brakapogilo Finnish: käsinoja (fi) French: accoudoir (fr) m, accotoir (fr) m Galician: repousabrazos m German: Armlehne (de) f Greek: αποκούμπι (el) n (apokoúmpi) Hungarian: karfa (hu) Icelandic: stólarmur m Irish: taca uillinne m Italian: bracciolo (it) Japanese: 肘掛け (ja) (ひじかけ, hijikake) Korean: 팔걸이 (palgeori) Norwegian: Bokmål: armlene n Nynorsk: armlene n Polish: podłokietnik (pl) m Portuguese: braço (pt) m Russian: подлоко́тник (ru) m (podlokótnik) Spanish: reposabrazos (es) m, apoyabrazos (es) m Swedish: armstöd (sv) n Thai: เท้าแขน (th) (táao-kɛ̌ɛn) Ukrainian: підлокі́тник m (pidlokítnyk) Volapük: bradastutöm

See also

• armchair
• footstool

Further reading

• armrest on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Marters, smarter, SMARTER, marster, Starmer, marrest