armed

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Adjective[edit]

armed (comparative more armed, superlative most armed)

(sometimes in combination) Equipped, especially with a weapon.
nuclear-armed
(of a weapon) Prepared for use; loaded.
(obsolete) Furnished with whatever 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.
(botany) Having prickles or thorns.

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

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: please add this translation if you can
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: 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)
Maori: maupū (with fireams), maurākau (with weapons)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bevæpnet, bevæpna
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

Roman: òružān (sh), nȁoružān (sh)
Slovak: ozbrojený (sk)
Slovene: oborožen
Spanish: armado (es)
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[edit]

armed

simple past tense and past participle of arm

Etymology 2[edit]

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

Adjective[edit]

armed (not comparable)

(chiefly in combination) Having an arm or arms, often of a specified number or type.
(of a creature) Possessing arms of a specified number or type.
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.
(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[edit]

Translations[edit]

having arms

German: armig
Swedish: armad

Anagrams[edit]

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

Ladin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin armātus.

Adjective[edit]

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

armed

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