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English

Alternative forms

• yard-arm
• yard arm

Etymology

yard +? arm

Noun

yardarm (plural yardarms)

1. (nautical) The outer end of a yard, often equipped with blocks for reeving signal halyards.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• yard

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.'