Arm in Different Languages
Discover 'Arm' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Arm
Afrikaans arm | ||
Albanian krah | ||
Amharic ክንድ | ||
Arabic ذراع | ||
Armenian թև | ||
Assamese বাহু | ||
Aymara ampara | ||
Azerbaijani qol | ||
Bambara tɛgɛkala | ||
Basque besoa | ||
Belarusian рука | ||
Bengali বাহু | ||
Bhojpuri बांहि | ||
Bosnian ruka | ||
Bulgarian ръка | ||
Catalan braç | ||
Cebuano bukton | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 臂 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 臂 | ||
Corsican bracciu | ||
Croatian ruka | ||
Czech paže | ||
Danish arm | ||
Dhivehi އަތް | ||
Dogri बांह् | ||
Dutch arm | ||
English arm | ||
Esperanto brako | ||
Estonian arm | ||
Ewe abɔ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) braso | ||
Finnish käsivarsi | ||
French bras | ||
Frisian earm | ||
Galician brazo | ||
Georgian მკლავი | ||
German arm | ||
Greek μπράτσο | ||
Guarani jyva | ||
Gujarati હાથ | ||
Haitian Creole bra | ||
Hausa hannu | ||
Hawaiian lima | ||
Hebrew זְרוֹעַ | ||
Hindi हाथ | ||
Hmong npab | ||
Hungarian kar | ||
Icelandic armur | ||
Igbo ogwe aka | ||
Ilocano takiag | ||
Indonesian lengan | ||
Irish lámh | ||
Italian braccio | ||
Japanese 腕 | ||
Javanese lengen | ||
Kannada ತೋಳು | ||
Kazakh қол | ||
Khmer ដៃ | ||
Kinyarwanda ukuboko | ||
Konkani हात | ||
Korean 팔 | ||
Krio an | ||
Kurdish pîl | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) قۆڵ | ||
Kyrgyz кол | ||
Lao ແຂນ | ||
Latin armamini: | ||
Latvian rokas | ||
Lingala loboko | ||
Lithuanian ranka | ||
Luganda omukono | ||
Luxembourgish aarm | ||
Macedonian рака | ||
Maithili बाहु | ||
Malagasy hiomana | ||
Malay lengan | ||
Malayalam കൈക്ക് | ||
Maltese driegħ | ||
Maori ringa | ||
Marathi हात | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯈꯨꯗꯥꯡ | ||
Mizo ban | ||
Mongolian гар | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) လက် | ||
Nepali पाखुरा | ||
Norwegian væpne | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) mkono | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବାହୁ | ||
Oromo irree | ||
Pashto مټ | ||
Persian بازو | ||
Polish ramię | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) braço | ||
Punjabi ਬਾਂਹ | ||
Quechua rikra | ||
Romanian braţ | ||
Russian рука | ||
Samoan lima | ||
Sanskrit बाहु | ||
Scots Gaelic gàirdean | ||
Sepedi letsogo | ||
Serbian рука | ||
Sesotho letsoho | ||
Shona ruoko | ||
Sindhi بازو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) අත | ||
Slovak rameno | ||
Slovenian roka | ||
Somali gacanta | ||
Spanish brazo | ||
Sundanese panangan | ||
Swahili mkono | ||
Swedish ärm | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) braso | ||
Tajik даст | ||
Tamil கை | ||
Tatar кул | ||
Telugu చేయి | ||
Thai แขน | ||
Tigrinya ኢድ | ||
Tsonga voko | ||
Turkish kol | ||
Turkmen gol | ||
Twi (Akan) abasa | ||
Ukrainian рука | ||
Urdu بازو | ||
Uyghur arm | ||
Uzbek qo'l | ||
Vietnamese cánh tay | ||
Welsh braich | ||
Xhosa ingalo | ||
Yiddish אָרעם | ||
Yoruba apa | ||
Zulu ingalo |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "arm" in Afrikaans has Germanic roots and also means "poor" or "miserable." |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "krah" also means "branch" or "limb". |
| Amharic | "ክንድ" (arm) also means "force" or "power" and is used in phrases like "ክንድ አለው" (he/she is strong). |
| Arabic | The word "ذراع" (arm) in Arabic also means "measure of length," which is a unit of measurement in medieval Islamic culture that is roughly 48 to 57 cm. |
| Armenian | The word թև also means "wing" and is cognate with the English word "feather" (PIE: *pter-) |
| Azerbaijani | Qol (qol) comes from the Proto-Turkic word *qol 'forearm, wrist, arm' |
| Basque | "Besoa" comes from the Basque word "beso" meaning "five" and denotes the upper extremity of the body because it is made up of five fingers. |
| Belarusian | The Belarusian word "рука" (arm) is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "rǫka", which also means "hand". This is reflected in the fact that the word "рука" can be used to refer to both the arm and the hand in Belarusian. |
| Bengali | The word "বাহু" also means "force" and is used as a prefix for words describing various kinds of forces. |
| Bosnian | "Ruka" is a Slavic word present in most Slavic languages but with many different meanings |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "ръка" (arm) also has the alternate meaning of "hand". |
| Catalan | "Braç" can also mean "fathom" (a nautical unit of measurement equal to 6 feet). |
| Cebuano | Although bukton translates to "arm", it can also mean "wing" in reference to a bird's wing. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The character "臂" also means "to help" or "to support". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The character '臂' also refers to the branch of a tree or the side of a mountain, and is sometimes used as a metaphor for strength or support. |
| Corsican | Corsican "bracciu" is cognate with Italian "braccio", Spanish "brazo", and French "bras", all deriving from Latin "brachium". |
| Croatian | The Croatian word "ruka" originated from the Proto-Slavic "*rǫka" signifying "a hand" but acquired the meaning of "an arm". |
| Czech | "Paže" derives from Proto-Slavic "pęda" meaning "arm, fist". The same word can now mean "forefoot of an animal" in Czech. |
| Danish | The Danish word 'arm' can also mean 'poor' or 'miserable'. |
| Dutch | In Dutch, "arm" has the additional meanings "poor" or "miserable". |
| Esperanto | The word "brako" in Esperanto may also refer to a "sleeve" or the "act of embracing". |
| Estonian | In Estonian, "arm" (arm) also means "love" or "grace". |
| Finnish | "Käsivarsi" also refers to a Finnish region, roughly equivalent to what in Swedish is known as Lappland. |
| French | In French, the word "bras" can also refer to the side of a chair or sofa, or a small stream or river branch. |
| Frisian | In West Frisian, "earm" can also refer to a sleeve (of a clothing item). |
| Galician | In Galician, "brazo" also refers to the "sleeve" of a garment or the "leg" of a pair of pants. |
| German | The German word "Arm" can also refer to "poor" or "miserable" and originates from the Latin "armis" (weapon), meaning that someone who is poor is "unarmed". |
| Greek | In Byzantine Greek, "μπράτσο" could also refer to the "forearm" or the "lower part of the arm". |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word 'હાથ' (arm) is thought to be derived from the Sanskrit word 'हस्त' (hand), which in turn comes from the Proto-Indo-European root '*ǵʰés-to' meaning 'to grasp'. |
| Haitian Creole | The word 'bra' in Haitian Creole can also refer to a type of wooden or metal container used for washing clothes. |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "hannu" comes from the Proto-Chadic form *ɗaŋg, meaning "hand". Similarly, the cognate word in Proto-Afro-Asiatic was likely *dng, also meaning "hand". |
| Hawaiian | Lima in Hawaiian also refers to the five fingers or toes. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "זְרוֹעַ" can also mean "help" or "power", and it is related to the verb "עזר" (to help). |
| Hindi | The Hindi word "हाथ" also means "trunk" of an elephant. |
| Hmong | In Hmong, the word "npab" has an alternate meaning of "strength" or "power." |
| Hungarian | In addition to 'arm', 'kar' can mean 'choir', which may be related to its use in conducting. |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word "armur" is derived from the Old Norse word "armr," meaning "forearm." |
| Igbo | In Igbo, 'ogwe aka' can also refer to the branch of a tree. |
| Indonesian | The word 'lengan' comes from Proto-Austronesian *qalengan, meaning 'branch of a tree'. |
| Irish | The Irish word "lámh" can also refer to a hand, limb, branch, or support. |
| Italian | The word "braccio" in Italian can also refer to a unit of length equivalent to about 58 centimeters, and is the origin of the English word "brace". |
| Japanese | The original meaning of "腕" was "the inside of the bent arm," but by the Muromachi period it had come to mean "the entirety of the arm from the shoulder to the fingertips." |
| Javanese | The word "lengen" also means "wings" in Javanese, referring to the wings of a bird or a plane. |
| Kannada | Originally, the Kannada word "ತೋಳು" denoted a forearm, and this meaning is still current in compound words such as "ಬಲತೋಳು" (right forearm). |
| Kazakh | "Қол" (arm) also means "power, authority, means" in Kazakh, sharing its root with "қолдау" (assistance). |
| Khmer | In some cases, ដៃ can also refer to power or influence, as in the phrase "ដៃដែក" (influence). |
| Korean | The South Korean currency, the won (圜), was originally written as a combination of the Chinese characters for "source" (源) and "eight" (八), and the Korean word "pal" (팔), meaning "eight", is thought to be derived from the same character. |
| Kurdish | The word "pîl" (arm) in Kurdish derives from the Indo-European word "*pele" meaning "to protect" or "to cover". |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "кол" (arm) is likely derived from the Turkic word "коол" (arm, wing), which in turn may be related to the Sanskrit word "कुल" (family). |
| Lao | The word "ແຂນ" in Lao not only refers to the physiological arm but also metaphorically represents a person's ability, strength, or resources. |
| Latin | The Latin word 'armamini' is cognate with the German 'Arm' (poor) and English 'arm' (impoverish). |
| Latvian | “Rokas” in Latvian originated in the 1300s from the Slavic word *rǫka* meaning “hand,” as it now does in Polish, but developed a specific meaning in Latvian for “arm.” |
| Lithuanian | "Ranka" is a Lithuanian word that also means "sleeve" or "cuff", and is cognate with the Sanskrit word "aranka", meaning "rein". |
| Luxembourgish | Aarm is also a Luxembourgish word for the top part of a tree (in Standard German this is 'Wipfel'), and the 'Aarm' or 'Aarme' is the plural version referring to the tree tops. |
| Macedonian | The word "рака" in Macedonian can also mean Cancer (zodiac sign) or a sarcophagus. |
| Malagasy | The word 'hiomana' may come from an Indonesian word 'romana', meaning something held in one's hand. |
| Malay | In Javanese, the word "lengan" is used not only for "arm" but also for "sleeve" and "handle". |
| Malayalam | In addition to "arm," "കൈക്ക്" also translates to "hand" in Malayalam. |
| Maltese | The word "driegħ" originally meant "branch" or "limb". |
| Maori | The word 'ringa' also signifies a 'group' or 'circle', hence the term 'whare ringa' (meeting house) where people gather in a circle. |
| Marathi | The word "हात" in Marathi also means "strength" or "power". |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "гар" also means "branch" or "side" in some contexts. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The Burmese word for "arm" can also refer to the handle of a tool, weapon, or musical instrument. |
| Nepali | The word "पाखुरा" can also mean "wing" or "support". |
| Norwegian | In Old Norse, the word "væpne" also referred to the weapon a person carried in their hand. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | Nyanja derives the word "mkono" from the Proto-Bantu word "*kono" meaning "branch" or "limb". |
| Pashto | In Pashto, the word "مټ" can also refer to a measure of length equal to the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. |
| Persian | The word "بازو" can also mean "strength" or "power" in Persian. |
| Polish | In Kashubian language, "ramię" also means "shoulder". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The term braço can refer to the human arm, as well as to a river's branch, a tree limb, or a tool's handle in Portuguese. |
| Punjabi | ਬਾਂਹ also refers to a type of tree, and an alternate spelling for the first person singular possessive pronoun "my". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "braţ" (arm) also refers to the branch of a plant (from the Slavic "bratъ") |
| Russian | The word "рука" in Russian can also refer to a person's hand, a sleeve, or a branch of a tree. |
| Samoan | Samoan "lima" comes from the Proto-Polynesian word "lima", which also means "five" in many Polynesian languages. |
| Scots Gaelic | In Scots Gaelic, "gàirdean" refers to a person's hand or the foreleg of a quadruped besides its primary meaning of "arm." |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "рука" (ruka) for "arm" derives from the Proto-Slavic "*roka" and is cognate with the Sanskrit "aruṇa" meaning "red-coloured" and the German "Arm" meaning "forearm". |
| Sesotho | The word "letsoho" can also refer to a "hand" or a "forearm". |
| Shona | The Shona word "ruoko" comes from the verb "kuwoka", meaning "to stretch" or "to extend". |
| Sindhi | The word "بازو" also refers to a type of falcon used for hunting in Sindhi. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "අත" also has meanings like "hand", "ability", "power", and "assistance" in Sinhala. |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "rameno" derives from an obsolete term "ramo", itself originating from the Proto-Slavic word *rāme, meaning "shoulder". |
| Slovenian | The word "roka" also means "handle" or "grip" in Slovenian. |
| Somali | The Somali word "gacanta" can also mean "hand" or "authority". |
| Spanish | "Brazo" is also used colloquially to refer to a branch of a tree or a river or a part of a machine. |
| Sundanese | "Panangan" also means a riverbank (bank of a river), which is not used frequently. |
| Swahili | In some dialects, "mkono" also means "leg". |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "ärm" (arm) is derived from the Proto-Germanic word "*armaz," meaning "shoulder." |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Braso" in Tagalog (Filipino) is derived from the Spanish word "brazo" which also means "arm". Additionally, in informal Tagalog, "braso" can colloquially mean "boyfriend" or "girlfriend" (a usage also borrowed from its Spanish cognate). |
| Tajik | The word "даст" in Tajik also means "branch" or "handle". |
| Tamil | The Tamil word “கை” originates from the Proto-Dravidian “*kay”, meaning to grasp and hold. |
| Telugu | The Telugu word "చేయి" can also refer to a branch of a tree in certain contexts. |
| Thai | The word arm may also refer to a weapon or to a branch of a tree or the sea. |
| Turkish | "Kol" shares the same Proto-Indo-European root with Latin "ulna" (meaning "elbow") and Greek "ōlenē" (meaning "elbow"), both ultimately stemming from the reconstructed PIE root *h₂ely-, meaning "elbow". |
| Ukrainian | The word "рука" can also mean "hand" or "wrist". |
| Urdu | The word "بازو" (pronounced as 'bazu') comes from the Sanskrit word "bāhu," which also means "arm." |
| Uzbek | In Uzbek, "qo'l" can also refer to the leg or a measure of length (about 16 km). |
| Vietnamese | "Cánh tay" can also mean a river branch, sleeve or shoulder blade. |
| Welsh | The word "braich" in Welsh can also refer to a branch or a bough. |
| Xhosa | "Ingalo" also refers to the foreleg of a quadrupedal animal, like a cow or horse. |
| Yiddish | The word "אָרעם" is the Yiddish word for "arm" but can also refer to an axel in wagon building, or a type of Jewish prayer shawl. |
| Yoruba | In its alternate form, 'apa' may refer to the 'foreleg' or the 'strength' of a person or thing. |
| Zulu | "Ingalo" can also mean "power" or "strength" in Zulu. |
| English | The Old English word “arm” meant a forearm, upper arm, shoulder, or the entire upper limb. |