Wappen

Meaning

coat of arms

Hyphenated as

Wap‧pen

Gender

Neuter

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈvapən/

Etymology

From Middle High German wāpen (“weapon; coat of arms”), from Middle Low German wâpen (“weapon; coat of arms”). Doublet of Waffe (“weapon”), the High German form. The two forms were originally synonymous, but were semantically separated in early modern German.

Sentences

Daran soll der Fuchs im Wappen erinnern .

The fox in the coat of arms should remember this.

Das Wappen zeigt in seiner Symbolik die geschichtliche Entwicklung von Forstern auf .

In its symbolism, the coat of arms shows the historical development of Forstern.