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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈæɹəʊ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [ˈæɹəʊ̯]
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ˈaɹəw/
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• British, Southern, Standard: [ˈaɹəʊ̯]
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• /ˈæɹoʊ/ without the Mary–marry–merry merger
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• [ˈæɹoʊ̯] without the Mary–marry–merry merger
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• /ˈɛɹoʊ̯/ Mary–marry–merry merger
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• [ˈɛɹoʊ̯] Mary–marry–merry merger
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• US: Mmmm Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• Australian: /ˈæɹəʉ/
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• Australian: [ˈæɹəʉ̯]
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• New-Zealand: /ˈɛɹɐʉ/
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• New-Zealand: [ˈɛɹɐʉ̯]
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• Scotland: /ˈaɾo/
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• Scotland: [ˈaɾo]
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• Wales: /ˈaɾou/ without the toe–tow merger
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• Wales: [ˈaɾɔu̯] ~ [ˈaɾou̯] without the toe–tow merger
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• Estuary-English, Mid-Atlantic, Southern-US, US: /ˈæɹə/
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• Estuary-English, Mid-Atlantic, Southern-US, US: [ˈæɹə]
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• rhymes with -æɹəʊ
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• CMU ARPABET: AE1 R OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: EH1 R OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Representing pronunciation.

From Middle English arwe, from Old English earh (“arrow”) (oblique form ēarw-), from Proto-West Germanic *arhu (“arrow”), from Proto-Germanic *arhwō (“arrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h2érkwo- (“bow, arrow”). Cognate with Faroese ørv, ørvur (“arrow”), Icelandic ör (“arrow”), örvar (“arrows”), Gothic 𐌰𐍂𐍈𐌰𐌶𐌽𐌰 (arƕazna, “dart”), Asturian and Leonese arcu (“arrow”), Aragonese, Galician, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish arco (“arrow”), Catalan, French, and Romanian arc (“arrow”), Latin arcus (“bow”). Doublet of arch, arc, arco, and arcus.

397 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abaza: сагӏындакъ (saʻəndaqʼ) — projectile
• Abkhaz: ахәымпал (axwəmpʼal) — projectile
• Acehnese: aneuk panah — projectile
• Afrikaans: pyl — projectile
• Afrikaans: skig — projectile
• Akan: agyan — projectile
• Albanian: shigjetë — projectile
• Albanian: ber — projectile
• Albanian: shtizë — projectile
• Southern Altai: јебе (ǰebe) — projectile
• Southern Altai: ок (ok) — projectile
• Amanab: fak — projectile
• Amharic: ፍላጣ (fəlaṭa) — projectile
• Amharic: ቀስት (ḳäst) — projectile
• Amharic: ፍላጻ (fəlaṣa) — projectile
• Western Apache: k’aa’ist'aaní — projectile
• Arabic: سَهْم (sahm) — projectile
• Arabic: سهم (sahm) — projectile
• Arabic: سَهَم (saham) — projectile
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܓܹܐܪܵܐ (gērā) — projectile
• Aramaic: ܓܐܪܐ (giʾrā) — projectile
• Armenian: նետ (net) — projectile
• Aromanian: sãdzeatã — projectile
• Assamese: কাঁড় (kãr) — projectile
• Asturian: flecha — projectile
• Avar: йойохул гӏучӏ (jojoxul ʻučʼ) — projectile
• Avar: чӏор (čʼor) — projectile
• Avestan: 𐬙𐬌𐬔𐬭𐬌 (tigri) — projectile
• Aymara: mich'i — projectile
• Azerbaijani: ox — projectile
• Azerbaijani: اوخ (ox) — projectile
• Azerbaijani: ох — projectile
• Bashkir: уҡ (uq) — projectile
• Basque: gezi — projectile
• Basque: azkon — projectile
• Belarusian: страла́ (stralá) — projectile
• Bengali: তীর (tir) — projectile
• Bislama: ara — projectile
• Borôro: tugo — projectile
• Bulgarian: стрела́ (strelá) — projectile
• Burmese: မြား (mra:) — projectile
• Catalan: fletxa — projectile
• Catalan: sageta — projectile
• Chamicuro: ashkololi — projectile
• Chechen: пха (pxa) — projectile
• Cherokee: ᎫᏂ (guni) — projectile
• Cheyenne: maahe — projectile
• Chinese Cantonese: 箭 (zin3) — projectile
• Chinese Cantonese: 矢 (ci2) — projectile
• Chinese: җян (jian) — projectile
• Chinese: 箭 (chìn) — projectile
• Chinese: 矢 (sí) — projectile
• Chinese Mandarin: 箭 (jiàn) — projectile
• Chinese Mandarin: 矢 (shǐ) — projectile
• Chinese Mandarin: 箭頭 /箭头 (jiàntóu) — projectile
• Wu Chinese: 箭 — projectile
• Wu Chinese: 矢 — projectile
• Chipewyan: k’á — projectile
• Choctaw: oo-ske-noc-kay — projectile
• Chuvash: ҫӗмрен (śĕmren) — projectile
• East Circassian: шабзэ (šabzɛ) — projectile
• West Circassian: щэбзащ (śɛbzaś) — projectile
• Cornish: seth — projectile
• Crimean Tatar: oq — projectile
• Czech: šíp — projectile
• Danish: pil — projectile
• Dargwa: урги (urgi) — projectile
• Dhivehi: ތީރު (tīru) — projectile
• Dongxiang: sumu — projectile
• Dutch: pijl — projectile
• Egyptian: V6-s-r:T11 (šsr) — projectile
• Egyptian: z-wn:n-T11 (zwn) — projectile
• Elfdalian: kuov — projectile
• Erzya: нал (nal) — projectile
• Esperanto: sago — projectile
• Estonian: nool — projectile
• Evenki: нюр (ņur) — projectile
• Ewe: aŋutrɔ — projectile
• Farefare: pɛɛfɔ — projectile
• Faroese: ørvur — projectile
• Faroese: pílur — projectile
• Faroese: ørv — projectile
• Finnish: nuoli — projectile
• French: flèche — projectile
• Saterland Frisian: Stroal — projectile
• West-Frisian: pylk — projectile
• Friulian: frece — projectile
• Galician: frecha — projectile
• Galician: frisga — projectile
• Galician: seta — projectile
• Georgian: ისარი (isari) — projectile
• German: Pfeil — projectile
• Gothic: 𐌰𐍂𐍈𐌰𐌶𐌽𐌰 (arƕazna) — projectile
• Greek: βέλος (vélos) — projectile
• Greek: σαΐτα (saḯta) — projectile
• Ancient Greek: ἰός (iós) — projectile
• Ancient Greek: τόξευμα (tóxeuma) — projectile
• Ancient Greek: ὀϊστός (oïstós) — projectile
• Greenlandic: qarsoq — projectile
• Paraguayan Guarani: hu'y — projectile
• Gujarati: બાણ (bāṇ) — projectile
• Hausa: kibiya — projectile
• Hawaiian: pua — projectile
• Hawaiian: pua pana — projectile
• Hebrew: חֵץ (khets) — projectile
• Hindi: तीर (tīr) — projectile
• Hindi: बाण (bāṇ) — projectile
• Hungarian: nyíl — projectile
• Hunsrik: Peil — projectile
• Icelandic: ör — projectile
• Ido: flecho — projectile
• Igbo: arọ — projectile
• Indonesian: panah — projectile
• Indonesian: anak panah — projectile
• Ingrian: strela — projectile
• Ingrian: nooli — projectile
• Ingush: тӏаьск (tʼäsk) — projectile
• Interlingua: flecha — projectile
• Interlingua: sagitta — projectile
• Irish: saighead — projectile
• Italian: freccia — projectile
• Japanese: 矢 (ya) — projectile
• Jarai: ƀrom — projectile
• Javanese: ꦥꦤꦃ (panah) — projectile
• Old Javanese: panah — projectile
• Jeju: 화살 (hwasal) — projectile
• Kaitag: и́рже (írže) — projectile
• Kannada: ಅಂಬು (ambu) — projectile
• Kannada: ಬಾಣ (bāṇa) — projectile
• Karachay-Balkar: окъ (oq) — projectile
• Karelian: piili — projectile
• Kazakh: жебе (jebe) — projectile
• Kazakh: оқ (oq) — projectile
• Ket: ӄам — projectile
• Khmer: ព្រួញ (pruəñ) — projectile
• Khmer: សរ (sɑɑ) — projectile
• Kikuyu: mũguĩ — projectile
• Komi-Permyak: ньӧв (ńöv) — projectile
• Korean: 화살 (hwasal) — projectile
• Kumyk: окъ (oq) — projectile
• Central Kurdish: تیر (tîr) — projectile
• Northern Kurdish: tîr — projectile
• Kyrgyz: жебе (jebe) — projectile
• Lak: чӏатӏаракӏ (čʼatʼarakʼ) — projectile
• Lakota: waŋhíŋkpe — projectile
• Lao: ລູກສອນ (lūk sǭn) — projectile
• Lao: ສອນ (sǭn) — projectile
• Latgalian: šautra — projectile
• Latin: sagitta — projectile
• Latvian: bulta — projectile
• Latvian: šautra — projectile
• Latvian: strēle — projectile
• Lingala: likula — projectile
• Lithuanian: strėlė — projectile
• Lokono: simala — projectile
• Low German: Piel — projectile
• Low German: Piil — projectile
• Lü: ᦔᦹᧃ (ṗuen) — projectile
• Lü: ᦐᦱᧉᦺᦙᧉ (ṅaa2may2) — projectile
• Luxembourgish: Fäil — projectile
• Macedonian: стрела (strela) — projectile
• Malay: panah — projectile
• Malay: ڤانه — projectile
• Malayalam: അമ്പ് (ampŭ) — projectile
• Maltese: vleġġa — projectile
• Manchu: ᠰᡳᡵᡩᠠᠨ (sirdan) — projectile
• Manchu: ᠨᡳᡵᡠ (niru) — projectile
• Northern Mansi: ня̄л (nâ̄l) — projectile
• Māori: kōpere — projectile
• Māori: pere — projectile
• Marathi: बाण (bāṇ) — projectile
• Eastern Mari: пикш (pikš) — projectile
• Eastern Mari: нӧлӧ (nölö) — projectile
• Marwari: तीर (tīr) — projectile
• Maybrat: karef — projectile
• Mohawk: kayonkwere — projectile
• Moksha: нал (nal) — projectile
• Mon: လဴ — projectile
• Mongolian: сум (sum) — projectile
• Mongolian: ᠰᠤᠮᠤ (sumu) — projectile
• Muong: lãl — projectile
• Nahuatl: mitl — projectile
• Classical Nahuatl: mitl — projectile
• Nanticoke: allontz — projectile
• Navajo: kʼaaʼ — projectile
• Norwegian: pil — projectile
• Norwegian Bokmål: pil — projectile
• Norwegian Nynorsk: pil — projectile
• Nottoway-Meherrin: aruntquaserank — projectile
• Occitan: flècha — projectile
• Occitan: sageta — projectile
• Odia: ବାଣ (bāṇa) — projectile
• Odia: ତୀର (tira) — projectile
• Ojibwe: mitigwanwi — projectile
• Ojibwe: bikwak — projectile
• Ojibwe: ginwaakwanwi — projectile
• Ojibwe: gii'anwaakonwi — projectile
• Ojibwe: asawaan — projectile
• Church Slavic: стрѣла (strěla) — projectile
• Church Slavic: ⱄⱅⱃⱑⰾⰰ (strěla) — projectile
• Old East Slavic: стрѣла (strěla) — projectile
• Old English: flān — projectile
• Old Galician-Portuguese: saeta — projectile
• Old Norse: ǫr — projectile
• Old Tupi: u'uba — projectile
• Oneida: kayu꞉kwíleʼ — projectile
• Ossetian: фат (fat) — projectile
• Pacoh: taráh — projectile
• Pali: usu — projectile
• Pali: sara — projectile
• Pali: bāṇa — projectile
• Pashto: غشۍ (ǧašëy) — projectile
• Pawnee: riiksuʼ — projectile
• Pawnee: riksuʼ — projectile
• Persian: تیر (tir) — projectile
• Middle Persian: 𐭲𐭢𐭫 — projectile
• Pirahã: kahaí — projectile
• Plautdietsch: Feil — projectile
• Polish: strzała — projectile
• Polish: szyp — projectile
• Portuguese: flecha — projectile
• Portuguese: seta — projectile
• Punjabi: ਤੀਰ (tīr) — projectile
• Quapaw: mą — projectile
• Quechua: wach'i — projectile
• Rapa Nui: te'a — projectile
• Rohingya: tir — projectile
• Romanian: săgeată — projectile
• Romanian: сэӂатэ (săgeată) — projectile
• Romansh: frizza — projectile
• Russian: стрела́ (strelá) — projectile
• Kildin-Sami: ню̄лл (njūll) — projectile
• Northern Sami: njuolla — projectile
• Samoan: ū — projectile
• Samoan: 'auū — projectile
• Sanskrit: इषु (iṣu) — projectile
• Sanskrit: बाण (bāṇa) — projectile
• Sanskrit: शर (śara) — projectile
• Scottish Gaelic: saighead — projectile
• Scottish Gaelic: gath — projectile
• Serbo-Croatian: стрела — projectile
• Serbo-Croatian: стријела — projectile
• Serbo-Croatian: стрелица — projectile
• Serbo-Croatian: стрјелица — projectile
• Serbo-Croatian: стрила — projectile
• Serbo-Croatian: strela — projectile
• Serbo-Croatian: strijela — projectile
• Serbo-Croatian: strelica — projectile
• Serbo-Croatian: strjelica — projectile
• Serbo-Croatian: strila — projectile
• Shawnee: la nàhl we — projectile
• Sherpa: མདའ (mda') — projectile
• Sicilian: freccia — projectile
• Sindhi: پيِلو (pīlō) — projectile
• Sinhalese: ඊය (īya) — projectile
• Slovak: šíp — projectile
• Slovene: puščica — projectile
• Lower Sorbian: klek — projectile
• Lower Sorbian: šypa — projectile
• Upper Sorbian: kłok — projectile
• Upper Sorbian: šip — projectile
• Sotho: motsu — projectile
• Spanish: flecha — projectile
• Spanish: saeta — projectile
• Sudovian: strēla — projectile
• Sumerian: 𒋾 (TI) — projectile
• Sundanese: jamparing — projectile
• Svan: ცხვი (cxvi) — projectile
• Swahili: mshale — projectile
• Swedish: pil — projectile
• Tabasaran: чӏимир (č̣imir) — projectile
• Tagalog: tunod — projectile
• Tagalog: palaso — projectile
• Tagalog: pletsa — projectile
• Tahitian: te'a — projectile
• Tajik: тир (tir) — projectile
• Tamil: அம்பு (ampu) — projectile
• Taos: łúonemą — projectile
• Tat: ух — projectile
• Tatar: ук (uq) — projectile
• Telugu: బాణము (bāṇamu) — projectile
• Telugu: అమ్ము (ammu) — projectile
• Tetum: hana — projectile
• Tewa: sú — projectile
• Thai: ลูกศร (lûuk-sɔ̌ɔn) — projectile
• Thai: ศร (sɔ̌ɔn) — projectile
• Tibetan: མདའ (mda') — projectile
• Tigrinya: መንትግ (mäntəg) — projectile
• Tigrinya: ኵናት (kwənat) — projectile
• Tigrinya: ፍላጻ (fəlaṣa) — projectile
• Tlingit: chooneit — projectile
• Tocharian B: prere — projectile
• Tocharian B: tsain — projectile
• Tongan: ngahau — projectile
• Turkish: ok — projectile
• Ottoman Turkish: اوق (ok) — projectile
• Ottoman Turkish: تیر (tir) — projectile
• Ottoman Turkish: سهم (sehm) — projectile
• Turkmen: ok — projectile
• Turkmen: peýkam — projectile
• Tutelo: mañkoi — projectile
• Tutelo: mañksii — projectile
• Tuvan: согун (sogun) — projectile
• Udmurt: ньӧл (ńöl) — projectile
• Ugaritic: 𐎈𐎑 (ḥẓ) — projectile
• Ukrainian: стріла́ (strilá) — projectile
• Urdu: تیر (tīr) — projectile
• Uyghur: ئوق (oq) — projectile
• Uzbek: oʻq — projectile
• Uzbek: tir — projectile
• Vietnamese: mũi tên — projectile
• Vietnamese: tên — projectile
• Volapük: sagit — projectile
• Walloon: fritche — projectile
• Walloon: fletche — projectile
• Welsh: saeth — projectile
• Wolof: fitt — projectile
• Wolof: fett — projectile
• Xhosa: utolo — projectile
• Yakut: ох (oq) — projectile
• Yakut: оноҕос (onoğos) — projectile
• Yiddish: פֿײַל (fayl) — projectile
• Yoruba: ọfà — projectile
• Yup'ik: qeruq — projectile
• Isthmus Zapotec: baxa — projectile
• Isthmus Zapotec: baza — projectile
• Zhuang: naq — projectile
• Zhuang: cienq — projectile
• Zhuang: bwn — projectile
• Zulu: umcibisholo — projectile
• ǃXóõ: gǁqhàã (bone-tipped) — projectile
• Afrikaans: pyltjie — symbol
• Arabic: سَهْم (sahm) — symbol
• Arabic: سَهَم (saham) — symbol
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܓܹܐܪܵܐ (gērā) — symbol
• Armenian: սլաք (slakʻ) — symbol
• Asturian: flecha — symbol
• Belarusian: стрэ́лка (strélka) — symbol
• Bulgarian: стрелка́ (strelká) — symbol
• Catalan: fletxa — symbol
• Chechen: цамза (camza) — symbol
• Chinese Cantonese: 箭嘴 (zin3 zeoi2) — symbol
• Chinese Mandarin: 箭號 /箭号 (jiànhào) — symbol
• Chinese Mandarin: 箭頭 /箭头 (jiàntóu) — symbol
• Czech: šipka — symbol
• Danish: pil — symbol
• Dutch: pijl — symbol
• Estonian: nool — symbol
• Fijian: gasau — symbol
• Finnish: nuoli — symbol
• French: flèche — symbol
• West-Frisian: pylk — symbol
• Galician: frecha — symbol
• Georgian: ისარი (isari) — symbol
• German: Pfeil — symbol
• Greek: βέλος (vélos) — symbol
• Greek: βελάκι (veláki) — symbol
• Greek: δείκτης (deíktis) — symbol
• Hawaiian: nahau — symbol
• Hebrew: חץ (khetz) — symbol
• Hungarian: nyíl — symbol
• Ido: flecho — symbol
• Indonesian: panah — symbol
• Ingush: гӏоаролг (ğoarolg) — symbol
• Italian: freccia — symbol
• Japanese: 矢印 (yajirushi) — symbol
• Kimaragang: ramok do panah — symbol
• Korean: 화살표 (hwasalpyo) — symbol
• Northern Kurdish: tîr — symbol
• Lao: ລູກສອນ (lūk sǭn) — symbol
• Latvian: bulta — symbol
• Lithuanian: rodyklė — symbol
• Luxembourgish: Fäil — symbol
• Macedonian: стре́лка (strélka) — symbol
• Malay: انق ڤانه — symbol
• Malay: anak panah — symbol
• Malayalam: ചിഹ്നം (cihnaṁ) — symbol
• Norman: flièche — symbol
• Persian: فلش (fleš) — symbol
• Persian: پیکانه (peykâne) — symbol
• Polish: strzałka — symbol
• Portuguese: seta — symbol
• Romanian: săgeată — symbol
• Russian: стре́лка (strélka) — symbol
• Serbo-Croatian: strelica — symbol
• Serbo-Croatian: стрелица — symbol
• Slovak: šípka — symbol
• Slovene: puščica — symbol
• Spanish: flecha — symbol
• Swedish: pil — symbol
• Telugu: బాణం గుర్తు (bāṇaṁ gurtu) — symbol
• Thai: ลูกศร (lûuk-sɔ̌ɔn) — symbol
• Turkish: ok — symbol
• Ukrainian: стрі́лка (strílka) — symbol
• Vietnamese: mũi tên — symbol
• Walloon: fritche — symbol
• Walloon: fletche — symbol