different between disarm vs gisarm

English

Etymology

From Middle English desarmen (“to divest of arms”), from Anglo-Norman desarmer.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s???(?)m/
• Rhymes: -??(r)m

Verb

disarm (third-person singular simple present disarms, present participle disarming, simple past and past participle disarmed)

1. (transitive) To deprive of weapons; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless.
2. (transitive) To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous

3. (intransitive) To lay down arms; to stand down.
4. (intransitive) To reduce one's own military forces.
5. (transitive) To disable the security systems on.

Translations

Noun

disarm (plural disarms)

1. The act of depriving a person of a weapon they carry.
   • 2010, Steven Kaplan, Taiho-Jutsu: The Art of Arrests (page 194)

     As a brief background, the gun disarms originally taught to S.A.C. Airmen as part of the Combative Measures program were taken from Kodokan Goshin-Jutsu.

References

• disarm in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• dirams

English

Noun

gisarm (plural gisarms)

1. Archaic form of gisarme.

Anagrams

• Girmas, Magris