"arsenal" in seven languages
Meaningarsenal
Spanish
arsenal
/aɾseˈnal/
masc.borrowed · Italian arsenale
Spanish also took the Arabic word directly as atarazana 'dockyard'.
French
arsenal
/aʁsənal/
masc.borrowed · Italian arsenale
Italian
arsenale
/arseˈnale/
masc.borrowed · Venetian arzanà, from Arabic
Portuguese
arsenal
/ahseˈnaw/
masc.borrowed · Italian arsenale
Romanian
arsenal
/arseˈnal/
neut.borrowed · French arsenal
Catalan
arsenal
/əɾsəˈnal/
masc.borrowed · Italian arsenale
English
arsenal
/ˈɑɹsənəl/
from Latin/French · Italian arsenale, partly via French
English → ItalianarsenalarsenaleCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The ancestor
Arabic dār aṣ-ṣināʿa‘house of manufacture (a shipyard)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Venice's Arsenale was a vast state shipyard, and its Arabic name spread from there. Spanish got the same word twice: arsenal via Italy, atarazana straight from Arabic.
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In a sentence
- esEl ejército tiene un enorme arsenal.
- frL'armée dispose d'un énorme arsenal.
- itL'esercito ha un enorme arsenale.
- ptO exército tem um enorme arsenal.
- roArmata are un arsenal uriaș.
- caL'exèrcit té un arsenal enorme.
- enThe army has a huge arsenal.