weapon

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords.
2. An instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another.
3. (humorous, informal) A tool of any kind.
4. (Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang) An idiot, an oaf, a fool, a tool; a contemptible or incompetent person.
5. (Australia, slang) A very skilled, competent, or capable person or thing worthy of awe.
6. (rare, slang) The human genitals.

Verb

To equip with a weapon; to arm.

Concepts

arme

armes

armement

lance

missile

projectile

système d’armes

munition

matériel militaire

Arme

artillerie

épieu

Synonymes

arms

arm

gun

🔫

spear

armament

missile

rifle

weaponry

artillery

weapons

instrument

weapon system

ordnance

firearms

piece

tool

automatic rifle

bow

🙇

missiles

munition

opposition

ordinance

pistol

saber

shield

🛡️

shot gun

sword

utensil

lethal weapon

lethal tools

redshirt

army

arrow

cannon

contradiction

dagger

🗡️

deterrent

engine

equipment

gunnery

guns

hunting

incompatibility

iron

lance

life preserver

means

military equipment

Traductions

Waffe

arma

arma

wapen

arma

όπλο

arma

سلاح

arma

çek

👗

sîleh

silah

armas

telum

🎯

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈwɛp.ən/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: wepen

Hérité de ancien anglais: wǣpn

Appartenant à écossais: wapyn

Appartenant à frison occidental: wapen

Appartenant à néerlandais: wapen

Appartenant à bas-allemand: wapen

Appartenant à allemand: Waffe

Appartenant à danois: våben

Appartenant à suédois: vapen

Appartenant à norvégien bokmål: våpen

Appartenant à islandais: vopn

In summary

From Middle English wepen, from Old English wǣpn, from Proto-West Germanic *wāpn, from Proto-Germanic *wēpną (“weapon”), of unknown origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wēbnom. Cognate with Scots wapyn, wappen (“weapon”), Saterland Frisian Woapen (“weapon”), West Frisian and Dutch wapen (“weapon; coat of arms”), German Waffe (“weapon”) and Wappen (“coat of arms”), Low German wapen (“weapon”), Luxembourgish Waff (“weapon”), Danish våben (“weapon; coat of arms”), Faroese vápn, vákn (“weapon; whaling lance”), Icelandic vopn (“weapon”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk våpen (“weapon”), Swedish vapen (“weapon; coat of arms”), Yiddish וואָפֿן (vofn, “weapon”).