heraldry

English

Alternative forms

heraldy (obsolete)

Etymology

herald +‎ -ry. First attested 1572 CE. Displaced earlier heraldy, from herald +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛɹ.əl.dɹi/

Noun

heraldry (countable and uncountable, plural heraldries)

1. (uncountable) The profession or art of devising, granting and blazoning coats of arms, tracing genealogies and ruling on questions of protocol or rank.

   Rouge Dragon Pursuivant is a specialist in heraldry at the College of Arms.

2. (countable) An armorial ensign along with its history and description.
3. (uncountable) Pageantry.

   Onlookers were impressed by the rich and colorful heraldry.

Related terms

• herald
• heraldic
• heraldric

Translations

the profession of devising and blazoning arms

• Albanian: heraldika f
• Arabic: عِلْم شِعَارات النَبَالَة‎ m (ʿilm šiʿārāt an-nabāla)
• Armenian: գերբագիտություն (gerbagitutʿyun)
• Azerbaijani: heraldika
• Basque: heraldika (eu)
• Belarusian: гера́льдыка f (hjerálʹdyka)
• Breton: ardamezouriezh f
• Bulgarian: хера́лдика f (heráldika)
• Catalan: heràldica f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紋章學 (zh), 纹章学 (zh) (wénzhāngxué)

• Czech: heraldika f
• Danish: heraldik c
• Dutch: wapenkunde f, heraldiek (nl) f
• Esperanto: heraldiko
• Estonian: heraldika
• Finnish: heraldiikka (fi), vaakunaoppi (fi)
• French: héraldique (fr) f
• Friulian: eraldiche f
• Galician: armaría (gl) f, heráldica (gl) f
• Georgian: ჰერალდიკა (heraldiḳa)
• German: Heraldik (de) f, Heroldskunst f, Wappenwesen n
• Greek: εραλδική (el) f (eraldikí)
• Hebrew: הרלדיקה‎ f (heraldika)
• Hungarian: heraldika (hu)
• Icelandic: skjaldarmerkjafræði f
• Indonesian: perbentaraan
• Irish: araltas m
• Italian: araldica (it) f

• Japanese: 紋章学 (もんしょうがく, monshōgaku)
• Korean: 문장학 (munjanghak) (紋章學)
• Latvian: heraldika f
• Lithuanian: heraldika f
• Macedonian: хералдика f (heraldika)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: heraldikk m

  Nynorsk: heraldikk m

• Occitan: heraudica f
• Persian: نشان‌شناسی‎ (nešân-šenâsi)
• Polish: heraldyka (pl) f
• Portuguese: heráldica (pt) f
• Romanian: heraldică (ro) f
• Russian: гера́льдика (ru) f (gerálʹdika)
• Scottish Gaelic: earraideas m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хера̀лдика f

  Roman: heràldika (sh) f

• Sicilian: aràldica f
• Slovak: heraldika (sk) f
• Slovene: heráldika f
• Spanish: blasón (es) m, heráldica (es) f
• Swedish: heraldik (sv) c
• Thai: มุทราศาสตร์ (mudra-sàat)
• Turkish: arma bilimi (tr), heraldik (tr)
• Ukrainian: гера́льдика f (herálʹdyka)
• Vietnamese: huy hiệu học
• Welsh: herodraeth f