different between stick vs arm

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: st?k, IPA^(key): /st?k/
• Homophone: stich
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English stikke (“stick, rod, twig”), from Old English sticca (“rod, twig”), from Proto-Germanic *stikkô, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Stikke (“stick”), West Flemish stik (“stick”).

Noun

stick (countable and uncountable, plural sticks)

1. An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
   1. A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.

      Synonyms: branch, twig, (dialectal) rice, kindling, (uncountable) brush
   2. A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
   3. (US) A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).

      Synonym: two by four

   4. A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.

      Synonyms: cane, walking stick
   5. A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.

   6. (carpentry) The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
   8. (nautical) A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
   9. (figuratively) A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).

      Synonyms: piece, item
2. Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
   1. (chiefly Canada, US) A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).

   2. A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.

   3. (slang) A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).

      Synonyms: joint, reefer

3. Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
   1. A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.

   2. (archaic) A scroll that is rolled around (mounted on, attached to) a stick.
   3. (military) The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.

      Synonym: train
4. A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
   1. (US, colloquial) A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.

      Synonyms: stickshift, gearstick

      1. (US, colloquial, uncountable) Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.

   2. (aviation) The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
   3. (aviation, uncountable) Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
   4. (computing) A memory stick.
   5. (slang) A handgun.
      • Dropkick Murphys, Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya (song)

        A stick in the hand, a drop in the eye

   6. (dated, letterpress typography) A composing stick, the tool used by compositors to assemble lines of type.
   7. (jazz, slang) The clarinet.

      Synonyms: licorice stick, liquorice stick
5. (sports) A stick-like item:
   1. (sports, generically) A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.

   2. (horse racing) The short whip carried by a jockey.
   3. (boardsports) A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
   4. (golf) The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.

      Synonyms: pin, flagstick

   5. (US, slang, uncountable) The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
      1. The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
6. (sports, uncountable) Ability; specifically:
   1. (golf) The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
   2. (baseball) The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
   3. (baseball) General hitting ability.
   4. (field hockey or ice hockey) The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
7. (slang, dated) A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
   1. A thin or wiry person; particularly a flat-chested woman.
   2. (magic) An assistant planted in the audience.

      Synonyms: plant, shill
   3. A stiff, stupidly obstinate person.
   4. (military aviation, from joystick) A fighter pilot.
   5. (military, South Africa) A small group of (infantry) soldiers.
8. Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
   1. A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward. Compare carrot.)
   2. (slang, uncountable) Corporal punishment; beatings.
   3. (slang) Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.

      = he threw himself into the task of digging

      = she berated him (this sense melts into the previous sense, "punishment")
   4. (slang) Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
9. A measure.
   1. (obsolete) An English Imperial unit of length equal to 2 inches.
   2. (archaic, rare) A quantity of eels, usually 25.

      Synonyms: stich, broach

Usage notes

• (furniture): Generally used in the negative, or in contexts expressive of poverty or lack.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:stick

Derived terms

Note: Terms derived from the verb are found further below.

Translations

Verb

stick (third-person singular simple present sticks, present participle sticking, simple past and past participle sticked)

1. (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
2. (transitive, printing, slang, dated) To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.

   to stick type

3. (transitive) To furnish or set with sticks.

Etymology 2

From Middle English stiken (“to stick, pierce, stab, remain embedded, be fastened”), from Old English stician (“to pierce, stab, remain embedded, be fastened”), from Proto-Germanic *stik?n? (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”) (compare also the related Proto-Germanic *stikan?, whence West Frisian stekke, Low German steken, Dutch steken, German stechen; compare also Danish stikke, Swedish sticka), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tig-, *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”).

Cognate with the first etymology (same PIE root, different paths through Germanic and Old English), to stitch, and to etiquette, via French étiquette – see there for further discussion.

Noun

stick (uncountable)

1. (motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.
2. (fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
3. A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.

Verb

stick (third-person singular simple present sticks, present participle sticking, simple past and past participle stuck or (archaic) sticked)

1. (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.

2. (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.

3. (transitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
4. (intransitive) To persist.
5. (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
6. (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.

7. (dated, intransitive) To hesitate, to be reluctant; to refuse (in negative phrases).
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 10,^[2]

     For thou art so possess’d with murderous hate

     That ’gainst thyself thou stick’st not to conspire.

   • 1712, John Arbuthnot, Law is a Bottomless Pit, London: John Morphew, Chapter 1,^[3]

     Some stick not to say, that the Parson and Attorney forg’d a Will, for which they were well Paid […]

   • 1716, Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition edited by Samuel Johnson, London: J. Payne, 1756, Part I, p. 12,^[4]

     Though a cup of cold water from some hand may not be without its reward, yet stick not thou for wine and oil for the wounds of the distressed […]

   • 1740, James Blair, Our Saviour's divine sermon on the mount [...] explained, volume 3, page 26:

     And so careful were they to put off the Honour of great Actions from themselves, and to centre it upon God, that they stuck not sometimes to depreciate themselves that they might more effectually honour him.

   • 1742, Samuel Richardson, Pamela, Volume 3, Letter 37, p. 375,^[5]

     For he that sticks not at one bad Action, will not scruple another to vindicate himself: And so, Devil-like, become the Tempter, and the Accuser too!

   • 1743, Thomas Stackhouse, A Compleat Body of Speculative and Practical Divinity, edition 3 (London), page 524:

     The First-fruits were a common Oblation to their Deities; but the chief Part of their Worship consisted in sacrificiing Animals : And this they did out of a real Persuasion, that their Gods were pleased with their Blood, and were nourished with the Smoke, and Nidor of them; and therefore the more costly, they thought them the more acceptable, for which Reason, they stuck not sometimes to regale them with human Sacrifices.

8. (dated, intransitive) To be puzzled (at something), have difficulty understanding.
   • 1706, John Locke, Of the Conduct of the Understanding, Cambridge: J. Nicholson, 1781, pp. 48-49,^[6]

     He that has to do with young scholars, especially in mathematics, may perceive how their minds open by degrees, and how it is exercise alone that opens them. Sometimes they will stick a long time at a part of a demonstration, not for want of perceiving the connection of two ideas; that, to one whose understanding is more exercised, is as visible as any thing can be.

9. (dated, intransitive) To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.
   • 1708, Jonathan Swift, The Sentiments of a Church-of-England-Man, with respect to Religion and Government, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, 7th edition, Edinburgh: G. Hamilton et al., 1752, Volume I, Miscellanies in Prose, p. 73,^[7]

     […] this is the Difficulty that seemeth chiefly to stick with the most reasonable of those, who, from a mere Scruple of Conscience, refuse to join with us upon the Revolution Principle […] .

10. (transitive) To attach with glue or as if by gluing.

11. (transitive) To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
12. (transitive) To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.

    to stick a needle into one's finger

    • The points of spears are stuck within the shield.

    1. (transitive, now only in dialects) To stab.
       • circa 1583, John Jewel, in a sermon republished in 1847 in The Works of John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury, portion 2, page 969:

         In certain of their sacrifices they had a lamb, they sticked him, they killed him, and made sacrifice of him: this lamb was Christ the Son of God, he was killed, sticked, and made a sweet-smelling sacrifice for our sins.

       • 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III Scene 1

         Thou stickest a dagger in me: I shall never see my gold again: fourscore ducats at a sitting! fourscore ducats!

       • 1809, Grafton's chronicle, or history of England, volume 2, page 135:

         […] would haue [=have] sticked him with a dagger […]

       • 1908, The Northeastern Reporter, volume 85, page 693:

         The defendant said he didn't shoot; "he sticked him with a knife."

13. (transitive) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.

    to stick an apple on a fork

14. (transitive, archaic) To adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing.
15. (transitive, gymnastics) To perform (a landing) perfectly.

16. (botany, transitive) To propagate plants by cuttings.

17. (transitive, joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
18. (dated, transitive) To bring to a halt; to stymie; to puzzle.

    to stick somebody with a hard problem

19. (transitive, slang, dated) To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.
20. (intransitive, US, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
21. (intransitive, blackjack, chiefly Britain) To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.

Usage notes

In Early Modern English, the past participles stucken and sticken are occasionally found; they are not known in the modern language, even as archaisms.

Synonyms

• (to adhere): cleave, cling; see also Thesaurus:adhere
• (to stop moving): jam, stall; see also Thesaurus:stop
• (to tolerate): live with, put up with; See also Thesaurus:tolerate
• (persist): abide, carry on; see also Thesaurus:persevere
• (to remain loyal): stand by, stick by
• (to hesitate): falter, waver; see also Thesaurus:hesitate
• (to be puzzled at): puzzle
• (to attach with glue): agglutinate, conglutinate, glue, gum, paste
• (to place): pop, set down
• (to press into with a sharp point): pierce, prick, puncture
• (to fix on a pointed instrument): fix, impale, stake, run through, transfix
• (to bring to a halt): stump, thwart
• (to have sexual intercourse): have sex; see also Thesaurus:copulate

Derived terms

Note: Terms derived from the noun are found above.

Translations

See also

Adjective

stick (comparative sticker, superlative stickest)

1. (informal) Likely to stick; sticking, sticky.

   A non-stick pan. A stick plaster.

   A sticker type of glue. The stickest kind of gum.

Usage notes

• The adjective is more informal than nonstandard due to the prevalence of examples such as "non-stick pan" or "stick plaster".
• The comparative and superlative remain nonstandard (vs. stickier and stickiest) and are sometimes seen inbetween quotation marks to reflect it.

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Possibly a metaphorical use of the first etymology ("twig, branch"), possibly derived from the Yiddish schtick.

Noun

stick (plural sticks)

1. (Britain, uncountable) Criticism or ridicule.

Anagrams

• ticks

Chinook Jargon

Etymology

Borrowed from English stick.

Noun

stick

1. stick
2. wood, firewood
3. tree, forest

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed shortenings from several English compounds, in all cases equivalent to a borrowing from English stick.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?k/
• Hyphenation: stick
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

stick m (plural sticks, diminutive stickje n)

1. A hockey stick.
2. A joystick, stick-shaped control device.
3. A memory stick to store IT data.

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Verb

stick

1. singular imperative of sticken
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of sticken

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

stick n

1. a sting; a bite from an insect
2. (card games) a trick

Declension

Descendants

• ? Finnish: tikki

Verb

stick

1. imperative of sticka.

Anagrams

• ticks

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: äm, IPA^(key): /??m/
• (US) enPR: ärm, IPA^(key): /??m/
• Rhymes: -??(r)m

Etymology 1

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

Noun

arm (plural arms)

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

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

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

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

   Synonym: sleeve

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, New York: Harper, Chapter 100, p. 485,^[2]

     […] 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, 1971, p. 340,^[3]

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

   • 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, New York: Vintage, Chapter 5, p. 94,^[4]

     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.

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

7. A branch of an organization.

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

   • To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?

9. (baseball, slang) A pitcher

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

Derived terms

Translations

See arm/translations § Noun.

Verb

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.
   • 1634, attributed to John Fletcher and William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen

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

Etymology 2

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 *h?erm- (“poor, ill”).

Adjective

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

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

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Derived terms

• armth

Etymology 3

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

Noun

arm (plural arms)

1. (usually used in the plural) A weapon.
   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     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.

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

Usage notes

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

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:weapon

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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.

2. (transitive) To prepare a tool or a weapon for action; to activate.

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

4. (transitive, figuratively) To furnish with means of defence; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense.

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

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

Synonyms

• (furnish with weapons): beweapon

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

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

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch arm.

Noun

arm (plural arms)

1. arm

Cimbrian

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

arm m (plural èrme)

1. (Sette Comuni) arm

Related terms

• èrmel

Etymology 2

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.

Adjective

arm (comparative èrmor, superlative dar èrmorste)

1. (Sette Comuni, Luserna) poor

Declension

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

Derived terms

• armakhot, èrmakhot
• èrmar stòkh

References

• “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
• “arm” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /arm/, [???m]

Etymology 1

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

Noun

arm c (singular definite armen, plural indefinite arme)

1. (anatomy) arm

Inflection

Etymology 2

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

Adjective

arm

1. (dated) poor, not rich

   Synonym: fattig

2. unfortunate, poor

   Synonym: stakkels

Inflection

Further reading

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

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rm/
• Hyphenation: arm
• Rhymes: -?rm

Etymology 1

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

Noun

arm m (plural armen, diminutive armpje n)

1. arm

2. branch (especially of streams and organisations)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: arm

Etymology 2

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

Adjective

arm (comparative armer, superlative armst)

1. poor (not rich)

2. poor (unfortunate)

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: arm

Anagrams

• ram

Estonian

Etymology 1

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

Noun

arm (genitive armi, partitive armi)

1. scar

Declension

Etymology 2

Most likely derived from armas. Cognate to Votic armo (“grace, mercy”).

Noun

arm (genitive armu, partitive armu)

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

Declension

German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?a?m]

Adjective

arm (comparative ärmer, superlative am ärmsten)

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

3. low (having a small amount)

Declension

Antonyms

• reich

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “arm” in Duden online

Icelandic

Noun

arm

1. indefinite accusative singular of armur

Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /?????m?/
• (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /?a???m?/

Noun

arm m (genitive singular airm, nominative plural airm)

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

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "arm" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “arm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “arm” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 40.
• Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 10.
• 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.

Jersey Dutch

Etymology

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

Adjective

arm

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

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

Livonian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish armas.

Noun

arm

1. peace
2. love

Manx

Etymology

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

Noun

arm m (genitive singular arm, plural armyn)

1. arm, weapon, armament

Verb

arm (verbal noun armal, past participle garmal)

1. arm

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “arm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Middle Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /arm/

Etymology 1

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

Noun

arm m

1. arm

Alternative forms

• ?rem
• ?erm

Inflection

Descendants

• Dutch: arm
  • Afrikaans: arm
• Limburgish: erm

Further reading

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

Etymology 2

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

Adjective

arm

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

Inflection

Alternative forms

• ?rem

Descendants

• Dutch: arm
• Limburgish: erm

Further reading

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

Middle English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• arum, harm, erm, herm

Noun

arm (plural arms)

1. arm

Descendants

• English: arm
• Scots: arm, airm, arme, harme, areme, airme

References

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

Etymology 2

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

Adjective

arm

1. poor
2. miserable, wretched

Descendants

• Scots: arm

References

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse armr.

Adjective

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

1. poor

Noun

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

1. (anatomy) an arm

Derived terms

References

• “arm” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??rm/

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

1. (anatomy) an arm

Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Adjective

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

1. poor, pitiful (to be pitied)

Derived terms

• arming

References

• “arm” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• mar, ram

Old Dutch

Etymology 1

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

Noun

arm m

1. arm

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: arm
  • Dutch: arm

Further reading

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

Etymology 2

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

Adjective

arm

1. poor

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• armo

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: arm
  • Dutch: arm

Further reading

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

Old English

Alternative forms

• earm

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rm/, [?r?m]

Noun

arm m

1. arm

Declension

Old High German

Alternative forms

• aram

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /arm/

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ermos, *h???mos, whence also Old English arm, Old Norse armr.

Noun

arm m

1. (anatomy) arm

Declension

Descendants

• Middle High German: arm, arn
  • Alemannic German: Aare, Arm, Are, Arme
  • Bavarian: Oarm

    Cimbrian: arm

  • Central Franconian: Ärm, Arm, Orm

    Hunsrik: Aarem

  • German: Arm
  • Luxembourgish: Aarm
  • Rhine Franconian:
    • Pennsylvania German: Aarm
  • Yiddish: ?????? (orem)

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz, whence also Old English earm, Old Norse armr.

Adjective

arm

1. poor, miserable

Descendants

• German: arm

References

• Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

Old Saxon

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz, whence also Old English earm, Old Norse armr.

Noun

arm m

1. arm

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: arm
  • Low German:
    • German Low German:

      Hamburgisch: Arm

    • Westphalian:

      Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: ?rm

      Sauerländisch: ?rm, ?rem, Oarm

      Westmünsterländisch: Arm

  • Plautdietsch: Oam, Oarm

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz, whence also Old English earm, Old Norse armr.

Adjective

arm (comparative armoro, superlative armost)

1. miserable, poor

Declension

Descendants

• Low German: arm

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin armus, from Proto-Indo-European *h?er- (“to join”).

Noun

arm n (plural armuri)

1. (chiefly Oltenia) an animal's haunch, or a thigh on a person

   Synonyms: coaps?, ?old

Related terms

• întrema

See also

• arm?
• spat?

Scots

Etymology 1

From Middle English arm, from Old English earm (“arm”), from Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz (“arm”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?er-mo- (“arm”).

Alternative forms

• airm, arme, harme, areme, airme

Noun

arm (plural arms)

1. arm
2. arm of the sea
3. bar, beam

Etymology 2

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

Adjective

arm (comparative mair arm, superlative maist arm)

1. poor; wretched
2. weak; thin; sickly

Verb

arm (third-person singular present arms, present participle armin, past armt, past participle armt)

1. (intransitive) to crawl about miserably.

Etymology 3

From Middle English armen (“to arm”), from Old French armer (“to arm”), from Latin arm? (“to arm”). More at arm.

Verb

arm (third-person singular present arms, present participle armin, past armt, past participle armt)

1. to arm, outfit with weapons or armour

Etymology 4

From Old Norse armr (“wing of a body”).

Noun

arm (plural arms)

1. the tail end of something, especially of fishing line

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?am/

Noun

arm m (genitive singular airm, plural airm)

1. army

   Synonym: armailt

2. arm, weapon

Usage notes

• Arm is usually used to refer to the entire fighting force of a nation etc, while armailt usually refers to the an "army" involved in a particular battle etc:

Derived terms

• taigh-airm

Related terms

Mutation

Further reading

• “arm” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “arm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Norse armr (“arm”), from Proto-Germanic *armaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ermos, *h???mos.

Noun

arm c

1. (anatomy) arm; the body part
2. arm; something extending from a body

Declension

Derived terms

See also

Etymology 2

From Old Norse armr (“poor”), from Proto-Germanic *armaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ormos.

Adjective

arm (comparative armare, superlative armast)

1. (dated) poor; to be pitied

   Synonym: stackars

2. (dated) poor; with no possessions or money

   Synonym: fattig

Declension

Derived terms

• utarma

Anagrams

• mar, ram

Yimas

Noun

arm

1. water

References

• The Papuan Languages of New Guinea (1986, ?ISBN) (as ar?m)
• William A. Foley, The Yimas Language of New Guinea (1991, ?ISBN), page 296:

  arm tark kantk-rm ima-na-t?-n

  water coldness with-water water S-DEF-becomes-PRES

  'The water is getting cold.'