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arnis.

Traditional Philippine stickfighting, a martial art.

5 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. Traditional Philippine stickfighting, a martial art.

    uncountable
  2. A stick made of rattan, bahi, yantok, yakal or kamagong, used in Philippine stickfighting.

    countable
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).

noun
  1. plural of arni

    form-of · plural
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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.