martial art

Etymology
, which is itself borrowed from Chinese 武術 (wǔshù). However this term has been already mentioned in Pope's Iliad (1715, 4.360), and in Sotheby's Iliad (1831, book 6).

Noun



 * 1) 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.
 * 2) Military skills,  in military,  in.
 * 3) * 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.

Translations

 * Albanian: arti luftarak
 * Arabic: فَنٌّ قِتَالِيّ, الفُنُون القِتَالِيَّة
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: arte marcial
 * Azerbaijani: döyüş sənəti
 * Belarusian: баяво́е маста́цтва
 * Bulgarian: бо́йно изку́ство
 * Catalan: art marcial
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 武術
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: bojové umění
 * Danish: kampsport
 * Dutch:, , gevechtssport, gevechtskunst,
 * Esperanto: luktarto, luktosporto
 * Estonian: võitluskunst
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: საბრძოლო ხელოვნება
 * German: ,
 * Greek: πολεμικές τέχνες
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: युद्ध कलाएँ
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: bardagaíþrótt
 * Indonesian: seni bela diri
 * Irish: ealaín oscartha
 * Italian: arti marziali
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Khmer:, គុនក្បាច់
 * Korean: ,
 * Latvian: cīņas māksla
 * Lithuanian: kovos menas
 * Macedonian: боречка вештина
 * Malay: seni mempertahankan diri
 * Malayalam: ആയോധനകല
 * Maltese: arti marzjali
 * Norwegian: kampsport, kampaktivitet, kampkunst
 * Persian: هنر رزمی
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: artă marțială
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: борилачка вештина, борилачка вјештина
 * Roman: borilačka veština, borilačka vještina
 * Slovak: bojové umenie
 * Slovene: borilna veščina, umetnost bojevanja
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: ศิลปะการต่อสู้
 * Turkish: dövüş sanatı
 * Ukrainian: бойове́ мисте́цтво
 * Uyghur: چامباشچىلىق
 * Vietnamese: môn võ, môn võ thuật, (武術),


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Vietnamese: tài năng chiến đấu