zbranmi

Zbranmi is the instrumental plural form of the Czech noun zbraň, meaning weapons or arms. It is used to indicate the means by which something is done or to describe someone or something as being equipped with weapons. In English it can be rendered as “with weapons” or “armed with weapons.”

Orthography and variants: In standard Czech, the form is zbraněmi, with diacritics. In non-diacritic contexts—such as plain ASCII text, early computer systems, or some databases—the form often appears as zbranmi. Both forms have the same grammatical function and meaning; the diacritics reflect normative Czech spelling.

Grammar and usage: Zbraněmi is the instrumental plural, used after verbs and constructions that require the instrumental case, typically to express being equipped with or acting with weapons. Examples include: “Jednotka byla vyzbrojena zbraněmi.” (The unit was armed with weapons.) and “Stráže byly vyzbrojeny zbraněmi.” (The guards were armed with weapons.) It can also appear in phrases such as “používat zbraněmi” or “připravit se k boji se zbraněmi,” where zbraněmi denotes the means of action.

Etymology and usage context: The word derives from the Czech zbraň (weapon) and is common in military, law enforcement, security, and historical texts. It is used whenever the instrumental sense of “with” or “by means of” is required to refer to weapons in plural form.

See also: The root zbraň is a basic noun in Czech, frequently encountered in discussions of defense, crime, and regulation. The instrumentally inflected form zbraněmi is one of several case forms used to express relationships involving means or equipage.