Forearm
From fore- + arm. Compare Dutch voorarm (“forearm”), Danish forarm (“forearm”), German Vorderarm (“forearm”).
forearm (plural forearms)
- (anatomy) The part of the arm between the wrist and the elbow.
- (firearms) A section of the weapon between the receiver and the muzzle, used to hold the firearm steady.
part of the arm
- Afrikaans: onderarm (af), voorarm
- Albanian: parakrah (sq) m
- Aleut: tulax̂
- Arabic: سَاعِد (ar) m (sāʕid)
- Egyptian Arabic: ساعد m (saʕed), دراع m (derāʕ), زند m (zend)
- Moroccan Arabic: دراع m (drāʕ)
- Armenian: նախաբազուկ (hy) (naxabazuk)
- Basque: besaurre
- Bikol Central: takyag (bcl)
- Breton: arvrec'h f
- Catalan: avantbraç (ca) m
- Central Sierra Miwok: pá·čany-
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 前臂 (cin4 bei3)
- Mandarin: 前臂 (zh) (qiánbì), 下臂 (zh) (xiàbì)
- Classical Nahuatl: matzotzopaztli
- Coptic: ⲙⲁϩⲓ m (mahi), ϫⲫⲟⲓ m (čphoi), ϭⲛⲁϩ m (cnah), ϭⲛⲁⲩϩ pl (cnauh)
- Czech: předloktí (cs) n
- Danish: underarm (da) c
- Dutch: onderarm (nl)
- Egyptian: (mḥ)
- Faroese: undirarmur
- Finnish: kyynärvarsi (fi)
- French: avant-bras (fr) m
- Georgian: მკლავი (mḳlavi), წინამხარი (c̣inamxari)
- German: Unterarm (de) m, Vorderarm m
- Greek: πήχυς m (píchys)
- Ancient: πῆχυς m (pêkhus)
- Greenlandic: assaat
- Hebrew: אַמָּה (he) f ('amá)
- Hungarian: alkar (hu)
- Icelandic: framhandleggur (is) m
- Irish: rí (ga) f
- Italian: avambraccio (it) m
- Japanese: 前腕 (ja) (まえうで, maeude; ぜんわん, zenwan), 前膊 (ja) (ぜんぱく, zenpaku)
- Kazakh: білек (bılek)
- Korean: 팔뚝 (ko) (palttuk)
- Lao: ແຂນ (lo) (khǣn)
- Latin: antebrachium n
- Latvian: apakšdelms m
- Lithuanian: dilbis
- Malay: lengan bawah, ruas siku
- Maori: kikowhiti, tāhau, tātāhau, tāhau o te ringa
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: кынер (kyńer)
- Western Mari: кӹнер (kÿńer)
- Navajo: agąąlóóʼ
- Nogai: билек (bilek)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: underarm m
- Nynorsk: underarm m
- Ottoman Turkish: بیلك (bilek), ساعد (sâ'yd)
- Persian: ساعد (fa) (sâ'ed), زنگیچه (fa) (zangiče)
- Polish: przedramię (pl) n
- Portuguese: antebraço (pt) m
- Romanian: antebraț (ro)
- Russian: предпле́чье (ru) n (predpléčʹje)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: долактица f, подлактица f
- Roman: dolaktica (sh) f, podlaktica (sh) f
- Slovak: predlaktie
- Southern Altai: кары (karï), билек (bilek)
- Spanish: antebrazo (es) m
- Swedish: underarm (sv) c
- Tagalog: takday
- Tashelhit: ⵉⵖⵉⵍ m (iɣil)
- Telugu: ముంజేయి (te) (muñjēyi)
- Thai: ปลายแขน (bplaai-kɛ̌ɛn)
- Tibetan: ལག་ངར (lag ngar)
- Turkish: önkol (tr)
- Volapük: donabrad
- Walloon: divant-bresse (wa) m, bresse do dzo m
- Welsh: elin (cy) f, rhagfraich f
- West Frisian: ûnderearm
- Zazaki: harıs c
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part of a firearm below and supporting the barrel.
forearm (third-person singular simple present forearms, present participle forearming, simple past and past participle forearmed)
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To arm in preparation.
2013, Peter Marris, Widows and Their Families, page 20:But in so far as they were able to forearm themselves against the anxieties of bereavement, the loss may have been that much easier to face.
