Bogen

See also: bogen, bögen, and Bögen

German

Bogen m (strong, genitive Bogens, plural Bögen or Bogen, diminutive Bögelchen n)

bow (weapon)
(music) bow (for playing stringed instruments)
(architecture) arch
(geometry) curve, arc
sheet (of paper, stamps)
- 1955, Kurt Guggenheim, Alles in Allem, Th. Gut Verlag, published 2018, page 45:
  In die Buchbinderei brachte er große, weiße Bogen eines sehr starken Papiers, auf das sorgsam Ausschnitte aus englischen Zeitungen aufgeklebt waren.
  He brought large, white sheets of very sturdy paper into the bookbinder's, onto which clippings from English newspapers had been carefully pasted.

The normal plural is Bögen. This form is marked as southern in many dictionaries, but has now become the predominant form in the northern half of the language area, too.
The unchanged plural Bogen is still predominant in some compound words (such as Ellenbogen or Regenbogen), but less common otherwise.

Declension of Bogen [masculine, strong]

weapon

music

curve

arch