армия

See also: армія and армија

Bulgarian

а́рмия • (ármija) f (relational adjective арме́йски)

army (large, highly organised military force concerned mainly with ground operations)
army, armed forces (the complete military organization of a nation for land warfare)
Synonym: въоръжени сили (vǎorǎženi sili)
army (a large group of people or animals working toward the same purpose)
multitude, army, host, crowd, mass
Synonyms: множество (množestvo), тълпа (tǎlpa), маса (masa)

Declension of а́рмия

	singular	plural
indefinite	а́рмия ármija	а́рмии ármii
definite	а́рмията ármijata	а́рмиите ármiite

Borrowed from Russian а́рмия (ármija), from French armée (“army; armed forces”) or via German Armee (“army”).

армия • (armiä)

army, armed forces (the complete military organization of a nation, including land, sea and air forces)
army (specifically the land-based forces of a nation's military)
army, field army (a large military formation subdivided into several corps, divisions, or brigades)

From earlier армѣя (arměja)/армея (armeja), directly from French armée (“army; armed forces”) or via German Armee (“army”).

а́рмия • (ármija) f inan (genitive а́рмии, nominative plural а́рмии, genitive plural а́рмий, relational adjective арме́йский)

army, armed forces (the complete military organization of a nation, including land, sea and air forces)
army (specifically the land-based forces of a nation's military)
army, field army (a large military formation subdivided into several corps, divisions, or brigades)

Declension of а́рмия (inan fem-form i-stem accent-a)

	singular	plural
nominative	а́рмия ármija	а́рмии ármii
genitive	а́рмии ármii	а́рмий ármij
dative	а́рмии ármii	а́рмиям ármijam
accusative	а́рмию ármiju	а́рмии ármii
instrumental	а́рмией, а́рмиею ármijej, ármijeju	а́рмиями ármijami
prepositional	а́рмии ármii	а́рмиях ármijax

→ Bezhta: армийа (armija)
→ Georgian: არმია (armia)
→ Ingrian: armia
→ Polish: armia, armija (Middle Polish), armya (pre-reform orthography (1816)), armja (pre-reform orthography (1936))
- → Kashubian: armiô
→ Romanian: armie
→ Uzbek: armiya
→ Yakut: аармыйа (aarmıya)

Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “армия”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “армия”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 52