arm

Meanings

Noun

• The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.
• The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow.
• A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
• The part of a piece of clothing that covers the arm.
• 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.
• A bay or inlet off a main body of water.
• A branch of an organization.
• Power; might; strength; support.
• A pitcher
• One of the two parts of a chromosome.
• A group of patients in a medical trial.
• A weapon.
• Heraldic bearings or insignia.
• War; hostilities; deeds or exploits of war.
• A mollusc limb.

Verb

• To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms.
• To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.
• To prepare a tool or a weapon for action; to activate.
• To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency.
• To furnish with means of defence; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense.
• To take up weapons; to arm oneself.
• To fit (a magnet) with an armature.

Adjective

• Poor; lacking in riches or wealth.
• To be pitied; pitiful; wretched.

Related

Similar words

• beweapon

Origin

• From Middle English arm, from Old English earm Old English arm, from Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥mós, a suffixed form of *h₂er-.
• Akin to Dutch arm, German Arm, Yiddish אָרעם, Norwegian and Swedish arm. Indo-European cognates include Latin armus, Armenian արմունկ, Ancient Greek ἁρμός and ἅρμα, Avestan 𐬀𐬭𐬨𐬀, Old Persian.
• From Middle English arm, from Old English earm, from Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁erm-.
• Akin to Dutch arm, German arm, Yiddish אָרעם, Swedish arm, Serbo-Croatian rame.
• , from Middle English armes, from Old French armes, from Latin arma, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-mo-, a suffixed form of *h₂er-, hence ultimately cognate with etymology 1.