martial art

English

Etymology

Calque of Japanese 武術 (bujutsu), which is itself borrowed from Chinese 武術 / 武术 (wǔshù). However, the term had been already mentioned in Pope's Iliad (1715, 4.360), and in Sotheby's Iliad (1831, book 6).

Pronunciation

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Noun

A dan graduation combat in judo.

martial art (plural martial arts)

1. Any of several fighting styles which contain systematized methods of training for combat, both armed and unarmed; often practiced as a sport, e.g. boxing, karate, judo, silat, wrestling, or Muay Thai.
2. Military skills, proficiency in military strategy, prowess in warfare.
   • 1832, Richard Chenevix, An Essay Upon National Character: 4. On patriotism, p. 481:

     […] of all the modes by which the advantage of his country may be secured, the martial arts and valour are those by which a Swiss the most hopes to promote it.

Synonyms

• combat sport

Hypernyms

• art

Hyponyms

• mixed martial arts

Derived terms

• martial artist

Translations

fighting style

• Albanian: arti luftarak
• Arabic: فَنٌّ قِتَالِيّ m (fannun qitāliyy), الفُنُون القِتَالِيَّة m pl (al-funūn al-qitāliyya)
• Armenian: մարտարվեստ (hy) (martarvest)
• Asturian: arte marcial
• Azerbaijani: döyüş sənəti
• Belarusian: баяво́е маста́цтва n (bajavóje mastáctva)
• Bulgarian: бо́йно изку́ство n (bójno izkústvo)
• Catalan: art marcial
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 武術 / 武术 (mou⁵ seot⁶)

  Mandarin: 武術 / 武术 (zh) (wǔshù), 武藝 / 武艺 (zh) (wǔyì)

• Czech: bojové umění n
• Danish: kampsport
• Dutch: vechtsport (nl) f, vechtkunst (nl) f, gevechtssport f, gevechtskunst f, krijgskunst (nl) f
• Esperanto: luktarto, luktosporto
• Estonian: võitluskunst
• Finnish: kamppailulaji (fi)
• French: art martial (fr) m
• Galician: arte marcial (gl)
• Georgian: საბრძოლო ხელოვნება (sabrʒolo xelovneba)
• German: Kampfkunst (de) f, Kampfsport (de) m
• Greek: πολεμικές τέχνες (el) f pl (polemikés téchnes)
• Hebrew: אמנות לחימה (he)
• Hindi: युद्ध कलाएँ f pl (yuddh kalāẽ)
• Hungarian: harcművészet (hu)
• Icelandic: bardagaíþrótt (is)
• Indonesian: seni bela diri
• Irish: ealaín oscartha
• Italian: arti marziali
• Japanese: 武術 (ja) (ぶじゅつ, bujutsu), 武道 (ja) (ぶどう, budō), 武芸 (ja) (ぶげい, bugei)
• Khmer: គុន (km) (kun), គុនក្បាច់ (kun kbac)
• Korean: 무예(武藝) (ko) (muye), 무술(武術) (ko) (musul)
• Latvian: cīņas māksla f
• Lithuanian: kovos menas m
• Macedonian: боречка вештина f (borečka veština)
• Malay: seni mempertahankan diri
• Malayalam: ആയോധനകല (āyōdhanakala)
• Maltese: arti marzjali
• Norwegian: kampsport, kampaktivitet, kampkunst
• Persian: هنر رزمی (honar-e razmi)
• Polish: sztuka walki (pl) f
• Portuguese: arte marcial (pt) f
• Romanian: artă marțială f
• Russian: боево́е иску́сство (ru) n (bojevóje iskússtvo), единобо́рства (ru) n pl (jedinobórstva)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: борилачка вештина f, борилачка вјештина f

  Latin: borilačka veština f, borilačka vještina f

• Slovak: bojové umenie n
• Slovene: borilna veščina f, umetnost bojevanja f
• Spanish: arte marcial (es)
• Swedish: kampsport (sv)
• Thai: ศิลปะการต่อสู้ (sĭnlábpà gaan dtòr sôo)
• Turkish: dövüş sanatı
• Ukrainian: бойове́ мисте́цтво n (bojové mystéctvo)
• Uyghur: چامباشچىلىق (chambashchiliq)
• Vietnamese: môn võ, môn võ thuật, võ thuật (vi) (武術), vũ thuật (vi)

military prowess

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 兵法 (zh) (bīngfǎ)

• Finnish: sotataito (fi)
• German: Kriegskunst (de) f
• Polish: sztuka wojenna f
• Russian: вое́нное иску́сство (ru) n (vojénnoje iskússtvo)
• Swedish: stridskonst (sv) c
• Turkish: harp (tr), savaş (tr)
• Vietnamese: tài năng chiến đấu

References

• martial art on Wikipedia.Wikipedia