unarmed

English

Etymology

un- +‎ armed

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌʌnˈɑɹmd/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)md

Adjective

unarmed (not comparable)

1. Defenceless and lacking weapons.
   1. Lacking both weapons and protective armour.
2. (biology) Not having thorns, claws, or other dangerous appendages.

   An unarmed jellyfish would never capture prey.

3. (obsolete) Unaided, as of the vision without a glass.
   • 1759, William Porterfield, A treatise on the eye, the manner and phaenomena of vision:

     […] in order to see such Objects as are very remote, purblind Persons must make Use of concave Glasses, whose Radii are equal to the Distances at which they see distinctly with their unarmed Eyes.

Translations

lacking weapons

• Arabic: أَعْزَل m (ʔaʕzal)
• Azerbaijani: əliyalın
• Belarusian: няўзбро́ены (njaŭzbrójeny), бяззбро́йны (bjazzbrójny)
• Bulgarian: невъоръже́н (nevǎorǎžén)
• Catalan: desarmat
• Czech: neozbrojený
• Danish: ubevæpnet
• Dutch: ongewapend (nl)
• Finnish: aseeton (fi), aseistamaton
• French: sans armes (fr), non armé (fr)
• German: unbewaffnet (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἄοπλος (áoplos)

• Hungarian: fegyvertelen (hu)
• Italian: indifeso (it), inerme (it)
• Latin: inermis
• Lithuanian: beginklis
• Macedonian: невооружен (nevooružen), ненаоружан (nenaoružan)
• Manx: gyn arm, neuarmit, neueillit
• Maori: ringakore
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ubevæpnet, ubevæpna

• Old English: unġewǣpnod, wǣpnlēas
• Polish: nieuzbrojony (pl), bezorężny (dated)
• Portuguese: desarmado (pt)
• Russian: невооружённый (ru) (nevooružónnyj), безору́жный (ru) (bezorúžnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: не̏наоружа̄н

  Roman: nȅnaoružān (sh)

• Slovak: neozbrojený
• Slovene: neoborožen
• Swedish: obeväpnad (sv)
• Ukrainian: неозбро́єний (neozbrójenyj), беззбро́йний (uk) (bezzbrójnyj)

not carrying arms

• Azerbaijani: silahsız
• Belarusian: бяззбро́йны (bjazzbrójny), няўзбро́ены (njaŭzbrójeny)
• Catalan: desarmat
• Czech: neozbrojený
• Dutch: vapenlös
• Finnish: aseeton (fi), aseistamaton
• German: unbewaffnet (de), waffenlos (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἄοπλος (áoplos)

• Hungarian: fegyvertelen (hu)
• Italian: disarmato (it)
• Maori: ringakore
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ubevæpnet, ubevæpna

• Old English: unġewǣpnod
• Polish: nieuzbrojony (pl)
• Portuguese: desarmado (pt)
• Russian: безору́жный (ru) (bezorúžnyj), невооружённый (ru) (nevooružónnyj)
• Ukrainian: беззбро́йний (uk) (bezzbrójnyj), неозбро́єний (neozbrójenyj)

not having thorns or claws

• Finnish: aseeton (fi)
• Hungarian: agyartalan, tövistelen, tüskétlen (hu)

Anagrams

• Mundare, duramen, manured, maunder, undream