English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] weapon -ry
weaponry (usually uncountable , plural weaponries
Weapons , collectively
The army has a wide array of weaponry . 2013 June 7, Gary Younge , “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution ”, in The Guardian Weekly 188 , number 26 , page 18 :The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
2014 July 27, Tim Carvell, Josh Gondelman, Dan Gurewitch , Jeff Maurer, Ben Silva, Will Tracy, Jill Twiss, Seena Vali, Julie Weiner, “Nuclear Weapons”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 12 , John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television , via HBO:Holy shit! Those things barely look powerful enough to run Oregon Trail , much less Earth-ending weaponry . People who work there must watch WarGames and go “One day, one day, we’ll get to play with that stuff.”
Related terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ] weapons collectively
Arabic: سِلَاح m ( silāḥ )
Belarusian: узбрае́нне n ( uzbrajénnje ) , збро́я f ( zbrója )
Bulgarian: въоръже́ние (bg) n ( vǎorǎžénie ) , оръ́жие (bg) n ( orǎ́žie )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 兵器 (zh) ( bīngqì ) , 武器 (zh) ( wǔqì )
Czech: zbraň (cs) f výzbroj (cs) f
Egyptian: (ḫꜥw
Esperanto: armilaro
Finnish: aseistus (fi)
French: armement (fr) m arsenal (fr) m
German: Waffen (de) f pl Bewaffnung (de) f
Greek: οπλισμός (el) m ( oplismós )
Hebrew: נֶשֶׁק (he) m ( nésheq ) , כְּלֵי נֶשֶׁק (he) m pl ( kli nésheq )
Hungarian: fegyverzet (hu)
Irish: airm m pl
Italian: armi (it) f pl
Japanese: 武器 (ja) ( ぶき, buki ) , 兵器 (ja) ( へいき, heiki )
Khmer: សព្វាវុធ ( sɑppiəvut ) , អាវុធ ( ʼaavut )
Korean: 무기(武器) (ko) ( mugi ) , 병기(兵器) (ko) ( byeonggi )
Lao: ອາວຸດ (lo) ( ʼā wut )
Latin: arma (la) n pl
Macedonian: о́ружје n ( óružje ) , вооружу́вање n ( vooružúvanje )
Navajo: tʼáadoo leʼé bee anadahatʼíinii
Persian: سلاح (fa) ( selâh )
Polish: uzbrojenie (pl) n broń (pl) f
Portuguese: armas (pt) pl armamento (pt)
Russian: вооруже́ние (ru) n ( vooružénije ) , ору́жие (ru) n ( orúžije )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: о̀рӯжје n
Roman: òrūžje (sh) n
Slovak: zbraň (sk) f výzbroj f zbrane pl
Slovene: orožje n
Spanish: armas (es) f pl
Tajik: силоҳ (tg) ( siloh )
Thai: อาวุธ (th) ( aa-wút )
Ukrainian: озбро́єння (uk) n ( ozbrójennja ) , збро́я (uk) f ( zbrója )
Vietnamese: vũ khí (vi) (武器 binh khí (vi) (兵器
Yiddish: געווער n ( gever )
