armed

English

Pronunciation

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɑɹmd/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɑːmd/

Etymology 1

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

2. (of a weapon) Prepared for use; loaded.
3. (obsolete) Furnished with whatever serves to add strength, force, or efficiency.
   • De Foe

     a distemper eminently armed from heaven

Derived terms

• armed forces
• armed response
• armed robber
• armed robbery
• armed to the teeth
• unarmed

Translations

equipped, especially with a weapon

• Albanian: armatosur (sq)
• Armenian: զինված (hy) (zinvac)
• Bulgarian: въоръжен (bg) (vǎorǎžen)
• Catalan: armat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

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

• Italian: armato (it)
• Latin: armātus m, armiger (la)
• Luxembourgish: bewaffent, arméiert
• Maori: maupū (with fireams), maurākau (with weapons)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bevæpnet, bevæpna

• Old English: ġewǣpnod
• Polish: uzbrojony (pl) m
• Portuguese: armado (pt)
• Romanian: armat (ro), înarmat (ro)
• Russian: вооружённый (ru) (vooružónnyj), вооружи́вшийся (ru) (vooružívšijsja)
• Spanish: armado (es)

prepared for use

• Catalan: armat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: ladattu (fi)

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

Verb

armed

1. simple past tense and past participle of arm

Etymology 2

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

   the four-armed creature.

   the strong-armed man.

3. (heraldry, of horns, teeth, beaks, etc.) Coloured in a different tincture from the beast or bird itself.

Derived terms

• one-armed
• two-armed

Anagrams

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

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Etymology

From Latin armātus.

Adjective

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

1. armed