Calque of Japanese 武術 ( bujutsu ) , 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).
A dan graduation combat in judo .
martial art (plural martial arts )
Commons
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 .
Military skills, proficiency in military strategy , prowess in warfare .
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.
fighting style
Albanian: arti luftarak
Arabic: فَنٌّ قِتَالِيّ m ( fannun qitāliyy ) , الفُنُون القِتَالِيَّة m pl ( al-funūn al-qitāliyya )
Armenian: մարտարվեստ (hy) ( martarvest )
Asturian: arte marcial
Azerbaijani: döyüş sənəti
Belarusian: баяво́е маста́цтва n ( bajavóje mastáctva )
Bulgarian: бо́йно изку́ство n ( bójno izkústvo )
Catalan: art marcial
Chinese:
Cantonese: 武術 / 武术 ( mou5 seot6 )
Mandarin: 武術 / 武术 (zh) ( wǔshù ) , 武藝 / 武艺 (zh) ( wǔyì )
Czech: bojové umění n
Danish: kampsport
Dutch: vechtsport (nl) f , vechtkunst (nl) f , gevechtssport f , gevechtskunst f , krijgskunst (nl) f
Esperanto: luktarto , luktosporto
Estonian: võitluskunst
Finnish: kamppailulaji (fi)
French: art martial (fr) m
Galician: arte marcial (gl)
Georgian: საბრძოლო ხელოვნება ( sabrʒolo xelovneba )
German: Kampfkunst (de) f , Kampfsport (de) m
Greek: πολεμικές τέχνες f pl ( polemikés téchnes )
Hebrew: אמנות לחימה (he)
Hindi: युद्ध कलाएँ f pl ( yuddh kalāẽ )
Hungarian: harcművészet (hu)
Icelandic: bardagaíþrótt (is)
Indonesian: seni bela diri
Irish: ealaín oscartha
Italian: arti marziali
Japanese: 武術 (ja) ( ぶじゅつ, bujutsu ) , 武道 (ja) ( ぶどう, budō ) , 武芸 (ja) ( ぶげい, bugei )
Khmer: គុន (km) ( kun ) , គុនក្បាច់ ( kun kbac )
Korean: 무예(武藝) (ko) ( muye ) , 무술(武術) (ko) ( musul )
Latvian: cīņas māksla f
Lithuanian: kovos menas m
Macedonian: боречка вештина f ( borečka veština )
Malay: seni mempertahankan diri
Malayalam: ആയോധനകല ( āyōdhanakala )
Maltese: arti marzjali
Norwegian: kampsport , kampaktivitet , kampkunst
Persian: هنر رزمی ( honar-e razmi )
Polish: sztuka walki (pl) f
Portuguese: arte marcial (pt) f
Romanian: artă marțială f
Russian: боево́е иску́сство (ru) n ( bojevóje iskússtvo ) , единобо́рства (ru) n pl ( jedinobórstva )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: борилачка вештина f , борилачка вјештина f
Roman: borilačka veština f , borilačka vještina f
Slovak: bojové umenie n
Slovene: borilna veščina f , umetnost bojevanja f
Spanish: arte marcial (es)
Swedish: kampsport (sv)
Thai: ศิลปะการต่อสู้ ( sĭnlábpà gaan dtòr sôo )
Turkish: dövüş sanatı
Ukrainian: бойове́ мисте́цтво n ( bojové mystéctvo )
Uyghur: چامباشچىلىق ( chambashchiliq )
Vietnamese: môn võ , môn võ thuật , võ thuật (vi) (武術 ), vũ thuật (vi)