arsenal

See also: Arsenal, arsénal, arsenál, and arsenał

English

Etymology

From Italian arsenale, from Arabic دَار الصِّنَاعَة (dār aṣ-ṣināʕa, “manufacturing shop”), from دَار (dār) + صِنَاعَة (ṣināʕa).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːsənəl/, /ˈɑːsnəl/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹsənəl/, /ˈɑɹsnəl/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈɐːsənəl/, /ˈɐːsnəl/

Noun

arsenal (plural arsenals)

1. A military establishment for the storing, development, manufacturing, testing, or repairing of arms, ammunition, and other war materiel; an armoury.
2. A stock of weapons, especially all the weapons that a nation possesses.
3. A store or supply of anything.
   • 2014 January 21, Hermione Hoby, “Julia Roberts interview for August: Osage County – 'I might actually go to hell for this ...': Julia Roberts reveals why her violent, Oscar-nominated performance in August: Osage County made her feel 'like a terrible person' [print version: 'I might actually go to hell for this ...' (18 January 2014, p. R4)]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)‎^[1]:

     Foremost in her arsenal is that smile – so enormous and so absurdly disarming that someone should have worked out a way to harness its power into international conflict resolution.

4. Any supply of aid collected to prepare a person or army for hardship

   He arrived with a large arsenal of cleansers and tools, and got right to work.

   • 2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 November 2013:

     Elyse Saugstad, a professional skier, wore a backpack equipped with an air bag, a relatively new and expensive part of the arsenal that backcountry users increasingly carry to ease their minds and increase survival odds in case of an avalanche.

Coordinate terms

• armory
• armoury

Derived terms

• arsenal of democracy
• arsenal plane
• arsenal ship
• cyberarsenal
• Redstone Arsenal

Translations

military establishment

• Arabic: تِرْسَانَة f (tirsāna)
• Armenian: զինանոց (hy) (zinanocʻ)
• Belarusian: арсена́л m (arsjenál)
• Bulgarian: арсена́л (bg) m (arsenál)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 兵工廠 / 兵工厂 (zh) (bīnggōngchǎng)

• Czech: zbrojnice f, arzenál m
• Dutch: arsenaal (nl), wapenmagazijn (nl), wapenopslagplaats (nl)
• Finnish: arsenaali (fi)
• French: arsenal (fr) m
• Galician: arsenal m
• Georgian: არსენალი (arsenali)
• German: Zeughaus (de) n, Waffenkammer (de) f, Arsenal (de) n, Waffenlager (de), Waffenvorrat
• Hungarian: fegyvergyár (hu), fegyverraktár (hu), arzenál (hu)
• Indonesian: arsenal (id)
• Italian: arsenale (it) m, deposito armi m
• Japanese: 兵器廠 (へいきしょう, heikishō)
• Korean: 병기고 (ko) (byeonggigo), 무기고 (ko) (mugigo), 병기창 (ko) (byeonggichang)
• Latin: armāmentārium n
• Lithuanian: arsenalas m
• Macedonian: арсенал m (arsenal)
• Marathi: शिलेखाना m (śilekhānā), युद्धसाहित्यगृह n (yuddhasāhityagŕh)
• Norman: arsénal f
• Norwegian: arsenal n, rustkammer n
• Persian: زرادخانه (fa) (zarâdxâne)
• Polish: arsenał (pl) m, zbrojownia (pl) f, cekhauz (pl) m
• Portuguese: arsenal (pt) m
• Russian: арсена́л (ru) m (arsenál)
• Scottish Gaelic: taigh-airm m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: арсенал m

  Latin: arsenal (sh) m

• Slovak: arzenál m, zbrojnica (sk) f
• Slovene: arzenal m
• Spanish: arsenal (es) m
• Swedish: arsenal (sv) c
• Thai: คลังแสง (th), คลังสรรพาวุธ, โรงแสง, โรงงานสรรพาวุธ, โรงแสงสรรพาวุธ
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: سلاحخانه (silâhhâne)

• Ukrainian: арсена́л (uk) m (arsenál)
• Vietnamese: kho vũ khí, kho đạn dược

stock of weapons

• Armenian: զինանոց (hy) (zinanocʻ)
• Catalan: arsenal m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 軍火庫 / 军火库 (zh), 武庫 / 武库 (zh) (literary)

• Danish: våbenlager n, våbenarsenal n
• Finnish: arsenaali (fi)
• Hungarian: arzenál (hu)
• Italian: arsenale (it) m
• Latin: armāmentārium n
• Marathi: शस्त्रसामग्री f (śastrasāmagrī)
• Polish: arsenał (pl) m
• Portuguese: arsenal (pt) m
• Russian: арсена́л (ru) m (arsenál)
• Spanish: arsenal (es) m
• Thai: คลังแสง (th), คลังอาวุธ, คลังสรรพาวุธ

store or supply of anything

• Armenian: զինանոց (hy) (zinanocʻ)
• Catalan: arsenal
• Finnish: arsenaali (fi)
• Hungarian: arzenál (hu)
• Italian: arsenale (it) m, magazzino (it) m, deposito (it) m
• Polish: arsenał (pl) m
• Portuguese: arsenal (pt) m
• Russian: арсена́л (ru) m (arsenál)
• Spanish: arsenal (es) m

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ər.səˈnal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aɾ.seˈnal]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

arsenal m (plural arsenals)

1. arsenal (stock of weapons)
2. arsenal (store or supply of anything)

Further reading

• “arsenal”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.sə.nal/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

arsenal m (plural arsenaux)

1. (military, nautical) arsenal

Descendants

• → Russian: арсенал (arsenal)
  • → Georgian: არსენალი (arsenali)

Further reading

• “arsenal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch arsenaal, from French arsenal, from Arabic دَار الصِّنَاعَة (dār aṣ-ṣināʕa, “manufacturing shop”); دَار (dār) + صِنَاعَة (ṣināʕa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [arsəˈnal]
• Hyphenation: ar‧sê‧nal

Noun

arsênal (plural arsenal-arsenal)

1. arsenal, armoury

Further reading

• “arsenal”, 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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aʁ.seˈnaw/ [ah.seˈnaʊ̯]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aʁ.seˈnaw/ [ah.seˈnaʊ̯]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /aɾ.seˈnaw/ [aɾ.seˈnaʊ̯]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /aʁ.seˈnaw/ [aχ.seˈnaʊ̯]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /aɻ.seˈnaw/ [aɻ.seˈnaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐɾ.sɨˈnal/ [ɐɾ.sɨˈnaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐɾ.sɨˈnal/ [ɐɾ.sɨˈnaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐɾ.sɨˈna.li/

• Hyphenation: ar‧se‧nal

Noun

arsenal m (plural arsenais)

1. arsenal (military establishment)

Further reading

• “arsenal”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “arsenal”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French arsenal.

Noun

arsenal n (plural arsenale)

1. arsenal, armoury

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	arsenal	arsenalul		arsenale	arsenalele
genitive-dative	arsenal	arsenalului		arsenale	arsenalelor
vocative	arsenalule			arsenalelor

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /arsěnaːl/
• Hyphenation: ar‧se‧nal

Noun

arsènāl m inan (Cyrillic spelling арсѐна̄л)

1. arsenal

Declension

Declension of arsenal

	singular	plural
nominative	arsènāl	arsenali
genitive	arsenála	arsenala
dative	arsenalu	arsenalima
accusative	arsenal	arsenale
vocative	arsenale	arsenali
locative	arsenalu	arsenalima
instrumental	arsenalom	arsenalima

Spanish

Etymology

From Arabic دَار الصِّنَاعَة (dār aṣ-ṣināʕa, “industry house”). Compare dársena and atarazana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɾseˈnal/ [aɾ.seˈnal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: ar‧se‧nal

Noun

arsenal m (plural arsenales)

1. arsenal (stock of weapons)
2. arsenal (store or supply of anything)
3. dockyard

Further reading

• “arsenal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French arsenal, from Italian arsenale.

Noun

arsenal c

1. arsenal

Declension

Declension of arsenal

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	arsenal	arsenals
	definite	arsenalen	arsenalens
plural	indefinite	arsenaler	arsenalers
	definite	arsenalerna	arsenalernas

Derived terms

• kärnvapenarsenal
• vapenarsenal

Further reading

• arsenal in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker

Anagrams

• lansera