l'
/a.laʁm/
Translation
alarm; alarm system
Word origin
From the Italian cry all'arme ('to arms'), taken into French as a single word. English 'alarm' and 'alert' both arrived by the same military route.
- Origin
- Italian
- Root
- all'arme
- English cognates
- alarm, alert
Grammar
Examples
L' .
The alarm went off at three in the morning.
.
The bank's alarms were no longer working.
l' '.
He switched off the alarm before going in.
l' .
That noise raised the alarm across the whole neighbourhood.
.
Two alarms went off at once.
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