arsenal

See also: Arsenal, arsénal, and arsenál

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Italian arsenale, also French arsenal, from Arabic دَار الصِّنَاعَة‎ (dār aṣ-ṣināʿa, “manufacturing shop”); دَار‎ (dār) + صِنَاعَة‎ (ṣināʿa).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑː(ɹ)sənəl/

NounEdit

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 April 20, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time‎^[2]:

     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.

Derived termsEdit

• arsenal of democracy

TranslationsEdit

military establishment

• Czech: zbrojnice f, arzenál m
• Dutch: arsenaal (nl), wapenmagazijn, wapenopslagplaats
• Finnish: arsenaali
• French: arsenal (fr) m
• Galician: arsenal m
• German: Zeughaus (de) n, Waffenkammer (de) f, Arsenal (de) n, Waffenlager (de), Waffenvorrat
• Hungarian: fegyvergyár (hu), fegyverraktár (hu), arzenál (hu)
• Japanese: 兵器廠 (へいきしょう, heikishō)
• Latin: armamentarium n

• Norman: arsénal f
• Persian: زرادخانه‎‎ (fa) (zarādxāne)
• Polish: zbrojownia f, arsenał (pl) m
• Portuguese: arsenal (pt) m
• Russian: арсена́л (ru) m (arsenál)
• Scottish Gaelic: taigh-airm m
• Slovak: arzenál m, zbrojnica (sk) f
• Spanish: arsenal (es) m

stock of weapons

• Catalan: arsenal m
• Danish: våbenlager n, våbenarsenal n
• Finnish: arsenaali
• Hungarian: arzenál (hu)

• Latin: armamentarium n
• Polish: zbrojownia f, arsenał (pl) m
• Portuguese: arsenal (pt) m
• Spanish: arsenal m

store or supply of anything

• Catalan: arsenal
• Finnish: arsenaali
• Hungarian: arzenál (hu)

• Portuguese: arsenal (pt) m
• Spanish: arsenal (es) m

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CatalanEdit

PronunciationEdit

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /əɾ.səˈnal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ər.səˈnal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /aɾ.seˈnal/

NounEdit

arsenal m (plural arsenals)

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

Further readingEdit

• “arsenal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.sə.nal/

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NounEdit

arsenal m (plural arsenaux)

1. (military, nautical) arsenal

Further readingEdit

• “arsenal” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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PortugueseEdit

NounEdit

arsenal m (plural arsenais)

1. arsenal (military establishment)

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Serbo-CroatianEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

arsènāl m (Cyrillic spelling арсѐна̄л)

1. arsenal

DeclensionEdit

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

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SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /arseˈnal/

NounEdit

arsenal m (plural arsenales)

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

Further readingEdit

• “arsenal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.