helmet

English

Wikipedia

A bicycle helmet

Alternative forms

• helmette (obsolete)

Etymology

From healmet, helmet, an Old French diminutive of elme (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.

Translations

protective head covering

Arabic: خوذة (ar) Armenian: սաղավարտ (hy) (saġavart) Catalan: casc (ca) m., elm (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 兜鍪 (zh) (dōumóu), 盔子 (zh) (kuīzi), 鋼盔 (zh), 钢盔 (zh) (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. German: Helm (de) m. Greek: κράνος (el) 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 Latin: galea (la) Lithuanian: šalmas (lt) Macedonian: шлем (mk) (shlem) 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. Serbian: šlem (sr), kaciga (sr) Spanish: casco (es) m., yelmo (es) m. Swahili: helmeti (sw), kofia ya chuma (sw) Swedish: hjälm (sv) c. Turkish: kask (tr)

Related terms

• helm

Derived terms

• bicycle helmet
• crash helmet

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Finnish

Noun

helmet

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

Declension

Declension of helmet (type ovi) singular plural nominative – helmet genitive – helmien partitive – helmia accusative – helmet inessive – helmissa elative – helmista illative – helmiin adessive – helmilla ablative – helmilta allative – helmille essive – helmina translative – helmiksi instructive – helmin abessive – helmitta comitative – helmineen