armed

English

Pronunciation

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɑɹmd/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɑːmd/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːɹmɪd/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)md, -ɑːɹmɪd

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂érmos

Proto-Germanic *armaz

Proto-West Germanic *arm

Old English earm

Middle English arm

English arm

English -ed

English armed

From arm (“to equip with a weapon”) + -ed.

Adjective

armed (comparative more armed, superlative most armed)

1. (sometimes in combination) Equipped, especially with a weapon.

   nuclear-armed

   1. (of a person, specifically) Equipped with a gun.
      • 2015 February 3, Greg Botelho, “U.N. court: Serbs’ actions in Croatia not considered genocide”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 March 2021:

        The violence began when Serbian troops went into Croatia ostensibly to aid armed ethnic Serbians trying to create their own autonomous states there.

2. (of a weapon) Prepared for use; loaded.
3. (obsolete) Furnished with something that serves to add strength, force, or efficiency.
   • 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year:

     a distemper eminently armed from heaven

   • 1821, Sir William Herschel, Catalogue of Double Stars:

     The naked eye then will immediately direct us, by means of the two stars just mentioned, towards the place where, in the finder, the armed eye will perceive the double star in question about ¾ degree from the 44th Lyncis.

4. (botany) Having prickles or thorns.

Derived terms

• armed and dangerous
• armed bullhead
• armed conflict
• armed forces
• armed merchantman
• armedness
• armed neutrality
• armed police
• armed probe
• armed rebellion
• armed response
• armed revolt
• armed robbery
• armed secession
• armed struggle
• armed to the teeth
• biarmed
• busy as a one-armed paperhanger
• multiarmed
• nonarmed
• nuclear-armed
• triarmed
• unarmed

Translations

equipped, especially with a weapon

• Albanian: armatosur (sq)
• Arabic: مُسَلَّح (musallaḥ)
• Armenian: զինված (hy) (zinvac)
• Belarusian: узбро́ены (uzbrójeny)
• Bulgarian: въоръже́н (bg) (vǎorǎžén)
• Catalan: armat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 武裝的 / 武装的

• Czech: ozbrojený (cs)
• Danish: bevæpnet
• Dutch: gewapend (nl)
• Esperanto: armita
• Finnish: varustettu (fi) (equipped); aseistautunut (fi), aseistettu (fi) (equipped with arms)
• French: armé (fr)
• German: bewaffnet (de)
• Greek: ένοπλος (el) (énoplos)

  Ancient Greek: ἔνοπλος (énoplos)

• Hindi: मुसल्लह (hi) (musallah), हथियारबंद (hi) (hathiyārband), सशस्त्र (hi) (saśastra)
• Icelandic: vopnaður
• Italian: armato (it)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: çekdar (ku)

• Latin: armātus, armiger
• Luxembourgish: bewaffent, arméiert
• Macedonian: вооружен (vooružen)
• Māori: maupū (with fireams), maurākau (with weapons)
• Marathi: सशस्त्र (saśastra), शस्त्रसज्ज (śastrasajja), शस्त्रधारी (śastradhārī), हत्यारबंद (hatyārbanda)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bevæpnet, bevæpna

• Old Church Slavonic: орѫжьнъ (orǫžĭnŭ)
• Old English: ġewǣpnod
• Persian: مسلح (fa) (mosallah), زیناوند (zinâvand), افزارمند (fa) (afzârmand)
• Plautdietsch: bewaufnet
• Polish: uzbrojony (pl), zbrojny (pl)
• Portuguese: armado (pt)
• Romanian: armat (ro), înarmat (ro)
• Russian: вооружённый (ru) (vooružónnyj), вооружи́вшийся (ru) (vooružívšijsja)
• Sardinian: armàdu
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̀ружа̄н (sh), на̏оружа̄н

  Latin: òružān (sh), nȁoružān (sh)

• Slovak: ozbrojený (sk)
• Slovene: oborožen
• Spanish: armado [con], armífero (es), provisto [de]
• Swedish: beväpnad (sv) (with weapons)
• Tajik: мусаллаҳ (musallah)
• Ukrainian: озбро́єний (ozbrójenyj), збро́йний (uk) (zbrójnyj)

prepared for use

• Catalan: armat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: ladattu (fi)
• Greek: οπλισμένος (el) (oplisménos)
• Portuguese: armado (pt)
• Russian: снаряжённый (ru) (snarjažónnyj), (figuratively) вооружённый (ru) (vooružónnyj)

Verb

armed

1. simple past and past participle of arm

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂érmos

Proto-Germanic *armaz

Proto-West Germanic *arm

Old English earm

Middle English arm

English arm

English -ed

English armed

From arm (“the upper limb of the body”) + -ed.

Adjective

armed (not comparable)

1. (chiefly in combination) Having an arm or arms, often of a specified number or type.

   Antonym: armless

   Coordinate term: legged

2. (of a creature) Possessing arms of a specified number or type.

   Antonym: armless

   the four-armed creature

   the strong-armed man

   • 1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson;  […], published 1634, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     His shoulders broad and strong, / Armed long and round.

3. (heraldry, of animals) Having horns, claws, teeth, a beak, etc. in a particular tincture, as contrasted with that of the animal as a whole.

Derived terms

• cross-armed
• long-armed squid
• multi-armed
• multi-armed bandit
• one-armed
• one-armed bandit
• open-armed
• tri-armed
• two-armed

Translations

having arms

• Finnish: kädellinen (fi)
• German: armig
• Spanish: con brazo, con brazos
• Swedish: armad

Anagrams

• Emard, derma-, m'dear, dearm, ad rem, dream, medar, derma, redam, Mader, ramed, -derma

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈarmɛd/ [ˈar.mɛt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -armɛd
• Syllabification: ar‧med

Noun

armed (uncountable)

1. (military) syllabic abbreviation of artileri medan

Further reading

• “armed”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin armātus.

Adjective

armed m (feminine singular armeda, masculine plural armeds, feminine plural armedes)

1. armed