arnis

Meaning

Noun

  • A stick made of rattan, bahi, yantok, yakal or kamagong, used in Philippine stick fighting.
  • Traditional Philippine stick fighting, a martial art.
  • Plural of arni

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Origin

  • From Tagalog arnis, from Spanish arnés in the archaic sense of “a chivalric set of weapons or armor” (compare harness).

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