martial art

English

Etymology

Calque of Japanese 武術 (bujutsu), which is itself borrowed from Chinese 武術 (wǔshù). However this term has been already mentioned in Pope's Iliad (1715, 4.360), and in Sotheby's Iliad (1831, book 6).

Noun

A dan graduation combat in judo.

martial art (plural martial arts)

1. Any of several fighting styles which contain systematized methods of training for combat, both armed and unarmed; often practiced as a sport, e.g. boxing, karate, judo, silat, wrestling, or Muay Thai.
2. Military skills, proficiency in military strategy, prowess in warfare.
   • 1832, Richard Chenevix, An Essay Upon National Character: 4. On patriotism, p. 481:

     […] of all the modes by which the advantage of his country may be secured, the martial arts and valour are those by which a Swiss the most hopes to promote it.

Synonyms

• combat sport

Hypernyms

• art

Hyponyms

• mixed martial arts

Derived terms

• martial artist

Translations

fighting style

• Albanian: arti luftarak
• Arabic: الفُنُون القِتَالِيَّة (al-funūn al-qitāliyya)
• Armenian: մարտարվեստ (hy) (martarvest)
• Asturian: arte marcial
• Azerbaijani: döyüş sənəti
• Belarusian: баяво́е маста́цтва n (bajavóje mastáctva)
• Bulgarian: бо́йно изку́ство n (bójno izkústvo)
• Catalan: art marcial
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 武術／武术 (mou⁵ seot⁶)

  Mandarin: 武術／武术 (zh) (wǔshù), 武藝／武艺 (zh) (wǔyì)

• Czech: bojové umění n
• Danish: kampsport
• Dutch: vechtsport (nl) f, vechtkunst (nl) f, gevechtssport f, gevechtskunst f, krijgskunst (nl) f
• Esperanto: luktarto, luktosporto
• Estonian: võitluskunst
• Finnish: kamppailulaji (fi)
• French: art martial (fr) m
• Galician: arte marcial (gl)
• Georgian: საბრძოლო ხელოვნება (sabrʒolo xelovneba)
• German: Kampfkunst (de) f, Kampfsport (de) m
• Greek: πολεμικές τέχνες f pl (polemikés téchnes)
• Hebrew: אמנות לחימה (he)
• Hindi: युद्ध कलाएँ f pl (yuddh kalāẽ)
• Hungarian: harcművészet (hu)
• Icelandic: bardagaíþrótt
• Indonesian: seni bela diri
• Irish: ealaín oscartha
• Italian: arti marziali
• Japanese: 武術 (ja) (ぶじゅつ, bujutsu), 武道 (ja) (ぶどう, budō), 武芸 (ja) (ぶげい, bugei)
• Khmer: គុន (km) (kun), គុនក្បាច់ (kun kbac)
• Korean: 무예(武藝) (ko) (muye), 무술(武術) (ko) (musul)
• Latvian: cīņas māksla f
• Lithuanian: kovos menas m
• Macedonian: боречка вештина f (borečka veština)
• Malay: seni mempertahankan diri
• Malayalam: ആയോധനകല (āyōdhanakala)
• Maltese: arti marzjali
• Norwegian: kampsport, kampaktivitet, kampkunst
• Persian: هنر رزمی (honar-e razmi)
• Polish: sztuka walki (pl) f
• Portuguese: arte marcial (pt) f
• Romanian: artă marțială f
• Russian: боево́е иску́сство (ru) n (bojevóje iskússtvo), единобо́рства (ru) n pl (jedinobórstva)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: борилачка вештина f, борилачка вјештина f

  Roman: borilačka veština f, borilačka vještina f

• Slovak: bojové umenie n
• Slovene: borilna veščina f, umetnost bojevanja f
• Spanish: arte marcial (es)
• Swedish: kampsport (sv)
• Thai: ศิลปะการต่อสู้ (sĭnlábpà gaan dtòr sôo)
• Turkish: dövüş sanatı
• Ukrainian: бойове́ мисте́цтво n (bojové mystéctvo)
• Uyghur: چامباشچىلىق (chambashchiliq)
• Vietnamese: môn võ, môn võ thuật, võ thuật (vi) (武術), vũ thuật (vi)

military prowess

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 兵法 (zh) (bīngfǎ)

• Finnish: sotataito (fi)
• German: Kriegskunst (de) f
• Russian: вое́нное иску́сство (ru) n (vojénnoje iskússtvo)
• Swedish: stridskonst (sv) c
• Turkish: harp (tr), savaş (tr)
• Vietnamese: tài năng chiến đấu

References

• martial art on Wikipedia.Wikipedia