martial art

English

Etymology

Calque of Japanese 武術 (bujutsu).However this term has been already mentioned in Pope's Iliad (1715, 4.360), and in Sotheby's Iliad (1831, book 6).

Noun

A dan graduation combat in judo.

martial art (plural martial arts)

Any of several fighting styles which contain systematized methods of training for combat, both armed and unarmed; often practiced as a sport, e.g. boxing, karate, judo, silat, wrestling, or Muay Thai.
Military skills, proficiency in military strategy, prowess in warfare.
- 1832, Richard Chenevix, An Essay Upon National Character: 4. On patriotism, p. 481:
  […] of all the modes by which the advantage of his country may be secured, the martial arts and valour are those by which a Swiss the most hopes to promote it.

Synonyms

combat sport

Hypernyms

art

Hyponyms

mixed martial arts

Derived terms

martial artist

Translations

fighting style

Albanian: arti luftarak
Arabic: الفُنُون القِتَالِيَّة‎ (al-funūn al-qitāliyya)
Armenian: մարտարվեստ (hy) (martarvest)
Asturian: arte marcial
Azerbaijani: döyüş sənəti
Belarusian: баяво́е маста́цтва n (bajavóje mastáctva)
Bulgarian: бо́йно изку́ство n (bójno izkústvo)
Catalan: art marcial
Chinese:
Cantonese: 武術 (mou⁵ seot⁶)
Mandarin: 武術／武术 (zh) (wǔshù), 武藝／武艺 (zh) (wǔyì)
Czech: bojové umění n
Danish: kampsport
Dutch: gevechtskunst f, gevechtssport f, krijgskunst (nl) f
Estonian: võitluskunst
Finnish: kamppailulaji (fi)
French: art martial (fr) m
Galician: arte marcial (gl)
Georgian: საბრძოლო ხელოვნების (sabrʒolo xelovnebis)
German: Kampfkunst (de) f, Kampfsport (de) m
Greek: πολεμικές τέχνες f pl (polemikés téchnes)
Hebrew: אמנות לחימה‎ (he)
Hindi: युद्ध कलाएँ f pl (yuddh kalāẽ)
Hungarian: harcművészet (hu)
Icelandic: bardagaíþrótt
Indonesian: seni bela diri
Irish: ealaín oscartha
Italian: arti marziali
Japanese: 武術 (ja) (ぶじゅつ, bujutsu), 武道 (ja) (ぶどう, budō), 武芸 (ja) (ぶげい, bugei)
Khmer: គុន (km) (kun), គុនក្បាច់ (kun kbac)
Korean: 무예(武藝) (ko) (muye), 무술(武術) (ko) (musul)
Latvian: cīņas māksla f
Lithuanian: kovos menas m
Macedonian: боречка вештина f (borečka veština)
Malay: seni mempertahankan diri
Malayalam: ആയോധനകല (āyōdhanakala)
Maltese: arti marzjali
Norwegian: kampsport, kampaktivitet, kampkunst
Persian: هنر رزمی‎ (honar-e razmi)
Polish: sztuka walki (pl) f
Portuguese: arte marcial (pt) f
Romanian: artă marțială f
Russian: боево́е иску́сство (ru) n (bojevóje iskússtvo), единобо́рства (ru) n pl (jedinobórstva)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: борилачка вештина f, борилачка вјештина f
Roman: borilačka veština f, borilačka vještina f
Slovak: bojové umenie n
Slovene: borilna veščina f, umetnost bojevanja f
Spanish: arte marcial (es)
Swedish: kampsport (sv)
Thai: ศิลปะการต่อสู้ (sĭnlábpà gaan dtòr sôo)
Turkish: dövüş sanatı
Ukrainian: бойове́ мисте́цтво n (bojové mystéctvo)
Uyghur: چامباشچىلىق‎ (chambashchiliq)
Vietnamese: môn võ, môn võ thuật, võ thuật (vi) (武術), vũ thuật (vi)

military prowess

Chinese:
Mandarin: 兵法 (zh) (bīngfǎ)
Finnish: sotataito (fi)
German: Kriegskunst (de) f
Russian: вое́нное иску́сство (ru) n (vojénnoje iskússtvo)
Turkish: harp (tr), savaş (tr)
Vietnamese: tài năng chiến đấu

References

martial art on Wikipedia.Wikipedia