arsenal

Meaning

Noun

• A military establishment for the storing, development, manufacturing, testing, or repairing of arms, ammunition, and other war materiel; an armoury.
• A stock of weapons, especially all the weapons that a nation possesses.
• A store or supply of anything.
• Any supply of aid collected to prepare a person or army for hardship

Origin

• From Italian arsenale, also French arsenal, from Arabic دَار الصِّنَاعَة ("manufacturing shop"); دَار + صِنَاعَة.