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 (šiʕār nabāla)
• Armenian: զինանշան (hy) (zinanšan)
• Aymara: wallqanqa
• Azerbaijani:

  Abjad: طغرا (tughrā)

  Roman: gerb (az), tuğra

• Bashkir: герб (gerb)
• Basque: armarria
• Belarusian: герб m (hjerb)
• Bengali: কোট অফ আর্মস (kōṭ oph armoś)
• 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
• Crimean Tatar: tuğra
• 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 (ka) (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), улут тамга (ulut tamga), эл тамга (el tamga)
• 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)
• Pannonian Rusyn: герб m (herb)
• 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

• Southern Altai: герб (gerb)
• 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), тугра (tuğra)
• 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, tugra
• 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
• national emblem
• armorial bearing