arsenal

From Italian arsenale, also French arsenal, from Arabic دَار الصِّنَاعَة‎ (dār aṣ-ṣināʕa, “manufacturing shop”); دَار‎ (dār) + صِنَاعَة‎ (ṣināʕa).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑː(ɹ)sənəl/, /ˈɑː(ɹ)snəl/

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arsenal (plural arsenals)

1. A military establishment for the storing, development, manufacturing, testing, or repairing of arms, ammunition, and other war materiel; an armoury.
2. A stock of weapons, especially all the weapons that a nation possesses.
3. A store or supply of anything.
   • 2014 January 21, Hermione Hoby, “Julia Roberts interview for August: Osage County – 'I might actually go to hell for this ...': Julia Roberts reveals why her violent, Oscar-nominated performance in August: Osage County made her feel 'like a terrible person' [print version: 'I might actually go to hell for this ...' (18 January 2014, p. R4)]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)‎:

     Foremost in her arsenal is that smile – so enormous and so absurdly disarming that someone should have worked out a way to harness its power into international conflict resolution.

4. Any supply of aid collected to prepare a person or army for hardship

   He arrived with a large arsenal of cleansers and tools, and got right to work.

   • 2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time‎:

     Elyse Saugstad, a professional skier, wore a backpack equipped with an air bag, a relatively new and expensive part of the arsenal that backcountry users increasingly carry to ease their minds and increase survival odds in case of an avalanche.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ər.səˈnal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [aɾ.seˈnal]

arsenal m (plural arsenals)

1. arsenal (stock of weapons)
2. arsenal (store or supply of anything)

• “arsenal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.sə.nal/

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arsenal m (plural arsenaux)

1. (military, nautical) arsenal

• → Russian: арсенал (arsenal)
  • → Georgian: არსენალი (arsenali)

• “arsenal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Dutch arsenaal, from French arsenal, from Arabic دَار الصِّنَاعَة‎ (dār aṣ-ṣināʕa, “manufacturing shop”); دَار‎ (dār) + صِنَاعَة‎ (ṣināʕa).

• IPA^(key): [arsəˈnal]
• Hyphenation: ar‧sê‧nal

arsênal (first-person possessive arsenalku, second-person possessive arsenalmu, third-person possessive arsenalnya)

1. arsenal, armoury: a military establishment for the storing, development, manufacturing, testing, or repairing of arms, ammunition, and other war materiel.

• “arsenal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

• Hyphenation: ar‧se‧nal

arsenal m (plural arsenais)

1. arsenal (military establishment)

Borrowed from French arsenal.

arsenal n (plural arsenale)

1. arsenal, armoury

• IPA^(key): /arsěnaːl/
• Hyphenation: ar‧se‧nal

arsènāl m (Cyrillic spelling арсѐна̄л)

1. arsenal

From Arabic دَار الصِّنَاعَة‎ (dār aṣ-ṣināʕa, “industry house”). Compare dársena.

• IPA^(key): /aɾseˈnal/ [aɾ.seˈnal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: ar‧se‧nal

arsenal m (plural arsenales)

1. arsenal (stock of weapons)
2. arsenal (store or supply of anything)
3. dockyard

• “arsenal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014