helmet

English

Wikipedia

A bicycle helmet

Alternative forms

• helmette (obsolete)

Etymology

From healmet, helmet, an Old French diminutive of helme (Modern French heaume). The Old French is itself from the Germanic helm. English since the 15th century, gradually displacing Old English helm as the generic word.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈhelmɪt/

Noun

helmet (plural helmets)

1. A protective head covering.

Synonyms

• brain bucket, hard hat

Derived terms

• bicycle helmet
• construction helmet
• crash helmet

Related terms

• helm

Translations

protective head covering

• Arabic: خوذة (ar) (xáwḏa) f
• Armenian: սաղավարտ (hy) (saġavart)
• Asturian: cascu (ast) m, yelmu (ast) m
• Belarusian: шалом (be) (šalóm) m, каска (be) (káska) f
• Bulgarian: шлем (bg) (šlem) m, каска (bg) (káska) f
• Catalan: casc (ca) m, elm (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 兜鍪 (cmn) (dōumóu), 盔子 (cmn) (kuīzi), 鋼盔 (cmn), 钢盔 (cmn) (gāngkuī)

• Czech: helma (cs) f, helmice (cs) f
• Danish: hjelm (da) c
• Dutch: helm (nl) m
• Esperanto: kasko (eo)
• Estonian: kiiver (et)
• Finnish: kypärä (fi)
• French: casque (fr) m
• Galician: casco (gl) m, helmo (gl) m
• German: Helm (de) m
• Greek: κράνος (el) (krános) n
• Hebrew: קסדה (he) (kasda) f
• Hungarian: sisak (hu), bukósisak (hu)
• Icelandic: hjálmur (is) m
• Indonesian: helm (id)

• Italian: casco (it) m
• Japanese: ヘルメット (ja) (herumetto), 兜 (ja) (かぶと, kabuto)
• Korean: 헬멧 (ko) (helmet)
• Latin: galea (la)
• Lithuanian: šalmas (lt)
• Macedonian: шлем (mk) (šlem) m, кацига (mk) (káciga) f (only for motor vehicles)
• Malay: topi keledar (ms)
• Persian: (bicycle helmet) کلاه ایمنی ورزشی (fa)
• Polish: hełm (pl) m, kask (pl) m
• Portuguese: capacete (pt) m, elmo (pt) m
• Romanian: cască (ro) f
• Russian: шлем (ru) (šlem) m, каска (ru) (káska) m
• Scottish Gaelic: clogaid (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шлем (sh) m, кацига (sh) f

  Roman: šlem (sh) m, kaciga (sh) f

• Spanish: casco (es) m, yelmo (es) m
• Swahili: helmeti (sw), kofia ya chuma (sw)
• Swedish: hjälm (sv) c
• Turkish: kask (tr)
• Ukrainian: шолом (uk) (šolóm) m, каска (uk) (káska) f
• Vietnamese: mũ bảo hiểm (vi)

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Finnish

Noun

helmet

1. Plural form of helmi
2. necklace made of pearls or beads

Declension

Declension of helmi (type ovi) singular plural nominative – helmet genitive – helmien partitive – helmiä accusative – helmet inessive – helmissä elative – helmistä illative – helmiin adessive – helmillä ablative – helmiltä allative – helmille essive – helminä translative – helmiksi instructive – helmin abessive – helmittä comitative – helmineen