arm – English noun declension

English noun forms of arm

Noun: arm
Singulararm
Pluralarms

Sample Sentences

  • She stood with her right arm extended and her palm forward to indicate “Stop!”
  • When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him. [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
  • And you stare at me
  • In your Jesus Christ pose
  • Arms held out
  • Like you've been carrying a load [1991, “Jesus Christ Pose”, in Chris Cornell (lyrics), Soundgarden (music), Badmotorfinger, performed by Soundgarden, Track 4:]
  • The arm and forearm are parts of the upper limb in the human body.
  • the arms of an octopus
  • […] one arm of this jacket streamed behind him like the broidered arm of a huzzar’s surcoat. [1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “'”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 485:]
  • […] he noticed that a dark stain had appeared under the arm of her grey silk dress. [1970, J. G. Farrell, Troubles, New York: Knopf, published 1971, page 340:]
  • Samad made a grab for the boy and caught him by the arm of his shirt. [2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 82:]
  • The robot arm reached out and placed the part on the assembly line.
  • I accidentally sat on my glasses and bent one of the arms.
  • Shelburne Bay is an arm of Lake Champlain.
  • the cavalry arm of the military service
  • Congress has asked the Government Accountability Office, its investigative arm, to review the workplace complaints raised by air marshals, said Charles Young, a spokesman for the office. [2018 April 25, Ron Nixon, “Scandals and Investigations, but Few Arrests, for Air Marshals Program”, in The New York Times:]
  • the arm of the law
  • the secular arm
  • To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 52:1:]
  • The team needs to sign another arm in the offseason.
  • They scored an arm of dagga and some speed and then raced away. [2014, Malcolm Kohll, Good Hope, page 43:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₂érmos
4. Proto-Germanic *armaz
5. Proto-West Germanic *arm
6. Old English earm
7. Middle English arm
8. English arm
9. From Middle English arm, from Old English earm (Anglian arm), from Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz (“arm”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“a fitting, joint; arm, forequarter”), a suffixed form of *h₂er- (“to join, fit together”).
10. Cognates
11. Akin to Dutch arm, German Arm, Yiddish אָרעם (orem), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish arm. Indo-European cognates include Latin armus (“the uppermost part of the arm, shoulder”), Bulgarian рамо (ramo), Polish ramię, Serbo-Croatian rȁme, Armenian արմունկ (armunk, “elbow”), Ancient Greek ἁρμός (harmós, “joint, shoulder”) and ἅρμα (hárma, “wagon, chariot”), Avestan 𐬀𐬭𐬨𐬀 (arma), Old Persian [script needed] (arma). See: Middle English Nouns 'arm', Old English Nouns 'earm', Dutch Nouns 'arm', German Nouns 'Arm', Latin Nouns 'armus', Bulgarian Nouns 'рамо', Polish Nouns 'ramię', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ἁρμός'.

Verbs referencing "arm"

Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns arm, German Nouns Arm, Latin Nouns armus, Ancient Greek Nouns ἁρμός.