arsenal
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Italian arsenale, also French arsenal, from Arabic دَار الصِّنَاعَة (dār aṣ-ṣināʿa, “manufacturing shop”); دَار (dār) + صِنَاعَة (ṣināʿa).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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.
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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.
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- 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.
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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
TranslationsEdit
military establishment
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stock of weapons
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store or supply of anything
CatalanEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
arsenal m (plural arsenals)
Further readingEdit
- “arsenal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
arsenal m (plural arsenaux)
Further readingEdit
- “arsenal” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
PortugueseEdit
Serbo-CroatianEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
arsènāl m (Cyrillic spelling арсѐна̄л)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of arsenal
singular | plural | |
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nominative | arsènāl | arsenali |
genitive | arsenála | arsenala |
dative | arsenalu | arsenalima |
accusative | arsenal | arsenale |
vocative | arsenale | arsenali |
locative | arsenalu | arsenalima |
instrumental | arsenalom | arsenalima |
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Arabic دَار الصِّنَاعَة (dār aṣ-ṣināʿa, “industry house”). Compare dársena.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
arsenal m (plural arsenales)
Further readingEdit
- “arsenal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.