armia

See also: armią

Finnish

Noun

armia

1. partitive singular of armi

Anagrams

• Maria, maari, maria, raami, rimaa

Ingrian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian армия (armija).

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈɑrmiɑ/, [ˈɑrme̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈɑrmiɑ/, [ˈɑrmiɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑrmeː, -ɑrmiɑ
• Hyphenation: ar‧mi‧a

Noun

armia

1. army

Declension

Declension of armia (type 3/kana, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	armia	armiat
genitive	armian	armioin
partitive	armiaa	armioja
illative	armiaa	armioihe
inessive	armiaas	armiois
elative	armiast	armioist
allative	armialle	armioille
adessive	armiaal	armioil
ablative	armialt	armioilt
translative	armiaks	armioiks
essive	armianna, armiaan	armioinna, armioin
exessive1)	armiant	armioint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

Derived terms

• Puna-armia
• Punain armia

 

See also

• voiska (“troops”)

Polish

Alternative forms

• armija (Middle Polish)
• armya (pre-reform orthography (1816))
• armja (pre-reform orthography (1936))

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian а́рмия (ármija). First attested in 1609. Compare Silesian armijŏ and Slovincian armeja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈar.mja/

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• Rhymes: -armja
• Syllabification: ar‧mia

Noun

armia f (related adjective armijny)

1. (military) army (large, highly organised military force concerned mainly with ground operations, or the entire branch thereof)

   Synonyms: oręż, wojsko, wojskowość, żołnierz

2. (military) army (largest operational military unit; number of divisions or corps of a given type of troops under common command)
3. (military) army (part of the armed forces in the area of war)
4. (figuratively) army (large group of people)

   Synonyms: legion, tłum

Declension

Declension of armia

	singular	plural
nominative	armia	armie
genitive	armii	armii/armij (archaic)
dative	armii	armiom
accusative	armię	armie
instrumental	armią	armiami
locative	armii	armiach
vocative	armio	armie

Derived terms

nouns

• Armia Czerwona
• Armia Krajowa
• Armia Ludowa
• Armia Zbawienia
• błękitna armia

 

Descendants

• → Kashubian: armiô

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), armia is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 10 times in scientific texts, 38 times in news, 22 times in essays, 10 times in fiction, and 8 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 88 times, making it the 718th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Further reading

• armia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• armia in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Wiesław Morawski (02.03.2020) “ARMIA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “armja”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “armja”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 59
• armia in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego