forearm

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Forearm

Etymology

From fore- +‎ arm. Compare Dutch voorarm (“forearm”), Danish forarm (“forearm”), Swedish förarm (“forearm”), German Vorderarm (“forearm”).

Noun

forearm (plural forearms)

1. The part of the arm between the wrist and the elbow.

Synonyms

• antebrachium

Translations

part of the arm

• Arabic: ساعد m (sāʕid)

  Egyptian Arabic: (official) ساعد m (saʕed), ( always) دراع m (deraaʕ), زند m (zend)

• Armenian: նախաբազուկ (naxabazuk)
• Catalan: avantbraç m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 前臂 (zh) (qiánbì), 下臂 (zh) (xiàbì)

• Coptic: ⲙⲁϩⲓ m (mahi), ϫⲫⲟⲓ m (ʔd͡ʒoi), ϭⲛⲁϩ m (šnah, chnah), ϭⲛⲁⲩϩ pl (šnawh, chnafh)
• Czech: předloktí n
• Dutch: onderarm (nl)
• Finnish: kyynärvarsi (fi)
• French: avant-bras (fr) m
• German: Unterarm (de) m
• Hungarian: alkar (hu)
• Irish: rí (ga) f
• Italian: avambraccio (it) m

• Japanese: 前腕 (まえうで, maeude; ぜんわん, zenwan), 前膊 (ぜんぱく, zenpaku)
• Korean: 팔뚝 (ko) (palttuk)
• Latvian: apakšdelms m
• Malay: lengan bawah, ruas siku
• Maori: kikowhiti, tāhau, tātāhau, tāhau o te ringa
• Ottoman Turkish: ساعد (sâ'yd), سواعد pl (sewâyd)
• Polish: przedramię (pl) n
• Portuguese: antebraço (pt) m
• Romanian: antebraț (ro)
• Russian: предплечье (ru) n (predpléč’je)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: долактица f, подлактица f

  Roman: dolaktica f, podlaktica f

• Spanish: antebrazo m
• Swedish: underarm (sv) c
• Telugu: ముంజేయి (te) (munjEyi)
• Turkish: önkol (tr)

Verb

forearm (third-person singular simple present forearms, present participle forearming, simple past and past participle forearmed)

1. To arm in preparation.

Usage notes

• This verb is quite rare, except in the participial adjective forearmed, found in the common adage forewarned is forearmed.