coat of arms

coat of arms

English

Armorial panel with the Stuart coat of arms

Etymology

From Middle English cote of armes, from Old French cote a armer, cote d'armes, originally a tunic embroidered with heraldic arms.

Noun

coat of arms (plural coats of arms)

1. (heraldry) Hereditary designs and symbols depicted on an escutcheon, sometimes accompanied by other elements of a heraldic achievement, such as a helm, crest, crest coronet, torse, mantling and supporters; described by a blazon.

Translations

hereditary design depicted on an escutcheon

Abkhaz: агерб (agerb) Afrikaans: wapen (af) Albanian: stemë (sq) Amharic: ብሄራዊ አርማ (bəherawi ʾärma) Arabic: شِعَار نَبَالَة‎ m (šiʿār nabāla) Armenian: զինանշան (hy) (zinanšan) Aymara: wallqanqa Azerbaijani: gerb (az) Bashkir: герб (gerb) Basque: armarria Belarusian: герб m (hjerb) Bengali: কোট অফ আর্মস (koṭ ôphô armôsô) Breton: ardamezioù Bulgarian: герб (bg) m (gerb) Burmese: အမှတ်တံဆိပ် (my) (a.hmattamhcip) Catalan: escut (ca) m, escut d'armes m Chechen: герб (gerb) Chinese: Mandarin: 紋章／纹章 (zh) (wénzhāng), 國徽／国徽 (zh) (guóhuī) Cornish: kota arvow Czech: erb (cs) m, znak (cs) m Danish: våben (da) n, våbenskjold n, våbenmærke n (the heraldic symbol shown without the shield), skjoldmærke n (the heraldic symbol shown without the shield), rigsvåben n (when used by a sovereign state), statsvåben n (when used by a sovereign state) Dutch: wapen (nl) n, wapenschild (nl) n, rijkswapen n (when used by a sovereign state), staatswapen n (when used by a sovereign state) Eastern Mari: ойып (ojyp) Erzya: герб (gerb) Esperanto: blazono Estonian: vapp Faroese: skjaldarmerki n, vápnaskjøldur m, vápnaprógv n Finnish: vaakuna (fi) French: armoiries (fr) f pl, armes (fr) f pl, blason (fr) m Friulian: steme m, blason m Galician: brasón m, escudo (gl) m Georgian: გერბი (gerbi) German: Wappen (de) n, Wappenschild (de) m, Reichswappen n (when used by a sovereign state), Staatswappen (de) n (when used by a sovereign state) Greek: εθνόσημο (el) n (ethnósimo), οικόσημο (el) n (oikósimo) Greenlandic: inuiaqatigiinni ilisarnaqut Gujarati: જુઓારમસ (juoārmas) Hebrew: שלט אצלה‎ (he) m (shelet atzullah) Hindi: कुल चिन्ह (kul cinha) Hungarian: címer (hu) Icelandic: skjaldarmerki n Ido: blazono (io) Indonesian: lambang (id) Inuktitut: ᑕᕐᓴᖓ (tarsanga) Irish: armas m Italian: stemma (it) m, blasone (it) m Japanese: 紋章 (ja) (もんしょう, monshō), 国章 (ja) (こくしょう, kokushō) Kalmyk: сүлд (süld) Kapampangan: sangkal ning armas Kashubian: herb Kazakh: елтаңба (eltañba) Khmer: វរលញ្ឆករ (vĕəʼrĕəʼlañchaʼkɑɑ) Komi-Zyrian: канпас (kanpas) Korean: 문장 (ko) (munjang), 국장 (ko) (gukjang) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: nîşan (ku) Kyrgyz: герб (ky) (gerb) Lao: ເຄື່ອງໝາຍ (lo) (khư̄ang māi) Latin: īnsīgne (la) n Latvian: ģerbonis m Lithuanian: herbas (lt) m Macedonian: грб m (grb) Malay: jata (ms) Malayalam: മുദ്ര (ml) (mudra) Maltese: emblema m, stemma f Manx: armys Maori: tohu Maranao: dabar Marathi: चिन्ह (cinha) Mongolian: сүлд (mn) (süld) Nepali: चिन्ह (cinha), निशान (niśān) North Frisian: woopen Northern Sami: vearjogovva Norwegian: Bokmål: våpen (no) n, våpenskjold n, riksvåpen n (when used by a sovereign state), statsvåpen n (when used by a sovereign state) Nynorsk: våpen n, våpenskjold n, riksvåpen n (when used by a sovereign state), statsvåpen n (when used by a sovereign state) Occitan: escut (oc) m, armarias f pl Ossetian: герб (gerb) Persian: نشان‎ (fa) (nešân) Polish: herb (pl) m Portuguese: brasão de armas m, brasão (pt) m Punjabi: ਕੁਲ-ਚਿੰਨ੍ਹ (kula-cinnh) Quechua: wallqanqa Romanian: stemă (ro) f, blazon (ro) n, armoarii (ro) f pl (rare) Romansch: vopna f Russian: герб (ru) m (gerb) Saterland Frisian: woapen Scottish Gaelic: gearradh-arm m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: грб m Roman: grb (sh) m Silesian: wapyn Slovak: erb (sk) m Slovene: grb (sl) m Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: wopon Upper Sorbian: wopon Spanish: escudo de armas m, escudo (es) m Swahili: nembo Swedish: vapen (sv) n, vapensköld (sv) c, riksvapen (sv) n (when used by a sovereign state), statsvapen (sv) n (when used by a sovereign state) Tagalog: kutamaya Tahitian: taipe Tajik: нишон (tg) (nišon) Tamil: சின்னம் (ta) (ciṉṉam) Tatar: герб (gerb) Telugu: కవచం (te) (kavacaṁ) Thai: เครื่องหมาย (th) (krʉ̂ʉang-mǎai), ตราแผ่นดิน (dtraa ​pɛ̀n ​din) (of a country), ตราสัญลักษณ์ (dtraa sǎn-​yá-​lák) (emblem), ตราประจำตระกูล (dtraa ​bprà-​jam ​dtrà-​guun) (crest) Tongan: ko e sila Turkish: arma (tr) Turkmen: gerb Tuvan: сүлде (sülde) Udmurt: герб (gerb) Ukrainian: герб m (herb) Urdu: نشان‎ (nišān) Uzbek: gerb (uz) Vietnamese: phù hiệu áo giáp, quốc huy (vi), huy hiệu (vi) Volapük: sköt (vo) Welsh: arfbais f West Frisian: wapen Yiddish: הערב‎ n (herb) Yoruba: àmì ọ̀pá àṣẹ

See also

• heraldry