armer
French, verb/aʁ.me/
armer is a French verb meaning “to arm (equip with weapons)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pourvoir d’armes ; équiper”.
What does armer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to arm (equip with weapons)
- 2
to dub (a knight)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Pourvoir d’armes ; équiper. 2. Lever des soldats, lever des troupes. 3. Équiper un bâtiment, le pourvoir de tous les objets nécessaires pour le mettre en état de prendre la mer, qu’il s’agisse d’un bâtiment de guerre, de commerce ou de loisir. 4. Enrôler un marin sur un navire.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of armer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- armant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- armé participle past
- arme first-person indicative present
- armes indicative present second-person
- armons first-person indicative plural
- armez indicative plural present
- arment indicative plural present
- armais first-person imperfect indicative
- armait imperfect indicative singular
- armions first-person imperfect indicative
- armiez imperfect indicative plural
- armaient imperfect indicative plural
- armai first-person historic indicative
- armas historic indicative past
- arma historic indicative past
- armâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce armer?
- /aʁ.me/
- \aʁ.me\
- [aʁ.me]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to armer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is armer in French?
armer appears 3.2 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).