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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English alarme, alarom, borrowed from Middle French alarme, itself from Old Italian all'arme! (“to arms!, to the weapons!”), ultimately from Latin arma (“arms, weapons”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈlɑːm/
- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈlɑɹm/
- Hyphenation: alarm
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)m
Noun[edit]
alarm (countable and uncountable, plural alarms)
- A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii]:
- Arming to answer in a night alarm.
- Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.
- (Can we date this quote by Joel and provide title, author's full name, and other details?) ii. 1.
- Sound an alarm in my holy mountain.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:
- She went about the house in a state of real terror, and yet lied monstrously and wilfully, and invented many of the alarms she spread, and made many of the sounds we heard.
- (Can we date this quote by Joel and provide title, author's full name, and other details?) ii. 1.
- A sudden attack; disturbance.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:
- these home alarms
- 1725, Homer; [Elijah Fenton], transl., “Book I”, in The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, OCLC 8736646, page III:
- thy palace fill with insults and alarms
- Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.
- 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 1, in The History of England from the Accession of James II:
- Alarm and resentment spread through the camp.
- A mechanical device for awaking people, or rousing their attention.
- The clock radio is a friendlier version of the cold alarm by the bedside.
- An instance of an alarm ringing, beeping or clanging, to give a noise signal at a certain time.
- You should set the alarm on your watch to go off at seven o'clock.
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Translations[edit]
summons to arms
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notice of approaching danger
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sudden surprise with fear or terror
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mechanical contrivance for awaking
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instance of an alarm ringing or clanging
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Verb[edit]
alarm (third-person singular simple present alarms, present participle alarming, simple past and past participle alarmed)
- (transitive) To call to arms for defense
- (transitive) To give (someone) notice of approaching danger
- (transitive) To rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.
- (transitive) To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.
- (transitive) To keep in excitement; to disturb.
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Translations[edit]
to call to arms
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to give notice (by sound or otherwise) of approaching danger
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to surprise with apprehension of danger
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to keep in excitement; to disturb
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References[edit]
- alarm in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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Czech[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
alarm m
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Further reading[edit]
- alarm in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- alarm in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- alarm in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ultimately from Italian all' arme (“to arms”), allarme; cf. also French alarme. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
alarm n (plural alarmen, diminutive alarmpje n)
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Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Italian all' arme (“to arms”) and allarme, via French alarme
Noun[edit]
alarm m (definite singular alarmen, indefinite plural alarmer, definite plural alarmene)
- an alarm
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “alarm” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Italian all' arme (“to arms”) and allarme, via French alarme
Noun[edit]
alarm m (definite singular alarmen, indefinite plural alarmar, definite plural alarmane)
- an alarm
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “alarm” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Italian all' arme!.[1] Cf. French alarme.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
alarm m inan
- alarm
- The state of being alerted
Declension[edit]
declension of alarm
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Brückner, Aleksander (1927), “alarm”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish): “z włosk. all’ arme! ‘do broni’”
Further reading[edit]
- alarm in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
àlarm m (Cyrillic spelling а̀ларм)
Declension[edit]
Declension of alarm
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “alarm” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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