arnis.
Traditional Philippine stickfighting, a martial art.
Meaning & usage
Traditional Philippine stickfighting, a martial art.
A stick made of rattan, bahi, yantok, yakal or kamagong, used in Philippine stickfighting.
Where this word comes from
From Tagalog arnis, from Spanish arnés in the archaic sense of “a chivalric set of weapons or armor” (compare English harness).
plural of arni
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.