arsenal
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English
Etymology
From Italian arsenale, also French arsenal, from Arabic دَار الصِّنَاعَة (dār aṣ-ṣināʕa, “manufacturing shop”); دَار (dār) + صِنَاعَة (ṣināʕa).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɑːsənəl/, /ˈɑːsnəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈɑɹsənəl/, /ˈɑɹsnəl/
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈɐːsənəl/, /ˈɐːsnəl/, /ˈaːsənəl/, /ˈaːsnəl/
Noun
arsenal (plural arsenals)
- A military establishment for the storing, development, manufacturing, testing, or repairing of arms, ammunition, and other war materiel; an armoury.
- A stock of weapons, especially all the weapons that a nation possesses.
- 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):
- 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.
- 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, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time:
- 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
Derived terms
Translations
military establishment
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stock of weapons
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Catalan
Pronunciation
Noun
arsenal m (plural arsenals)
Further reading
- “arsenal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Pronunciation
Noun
arsenal m (plural arsenaux)
Descendants
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
Noun
arsênal (uncountable)
Further reading
- “arsenal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ar‧se‧nal
Noun
arsenal m (plural arsenais)
- arsenal (military establishment)
Romanian
Etymology
Noun
arsenal n (plural arsenale)
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
Noun
arsènāl m (Cyrillic spelling арсѐна̄л)
Declension
Declension of arsenal
Spanish
Etymology
From Arabic دَار الصِّنَاعَة (dār aṣ-ṣināʕa, “industry house”). Compare dársena and atarazana.
Pronunciation
Noun
arsenal m (plural arsenales)
Further reading
- “arsenal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
Swedish
Etymology
Noun
arsenal c
Declension
nominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | arsenal | arsenals |
definite | arsenalen | arsenalens | |
plural | indefinite | arsenaler | arsenalers |
definite | arsenalerna | arsenalernas |
Derived terms
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