chain mail

See also: chainmail

English

Mail

Etymology 1

From mail.

Noun

chain mail (uncountable)

1. A flexible defensive armor, made of a mesh of interlinked metal rings.
   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 11:

     Chain mail is formed by a number of iron rings, each ring having four others inserted into it, the whole exhibiting a kind of net work, with circular meshes, every ring separately rivetted; this kind of mail answers to that worn on the ancient breast plates, whence they were denominated loricæ hammatæ, from the rings being hooked together.

Alternative forms

• chainmail

Synonyms

• (armor): mail

Coordinate terms

• (armor): scale mail

Translations

a flexible defensive armor

• Albanian: zhguall (sq)
• Armenian: օղազրահ (hy) (ōłazrah)
• Bashkir: тимер күлдәк (timer küldäk), һайман (hayman)
• Burmese: သံချပ် (my) (samhkyap)
• Catalan: cota de malla f, cota de malles f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鎖子甲 (zh), 锁子甲 (zh) (suǒzijiǎ)

• Czech: kroužkové brnění n, kroužková zbroj f
• Danish: ringbrynje c
• Dutch: maliënkolder (nl) m
• Finnish: silmukkapanssari, rengashaarniska
• French: cotte de mailles (fr) f
• Galician: cota (gl) f
• Georgian: თორი (tori)
• German: Kettenrüstung f, Kettenpanzer (de) m
• Greek: αλυσιδωτή πανοπλία f (alysidotí panoplía)
• Hungarian: páncéling (hu)
• Italian: cotta di maglia (it) f
• Japanese: 鎖帷子 (くさりかたびら, kusarikatabira)

• Korean: 쇄자갑 (swaejagap)
• Latin: donec posuere n, armorum n
• Macedonian: вери́жница f (verížnica), панцирна кошула f (pancirna košula)
• Norwegian: ringbrynje c
• Old English: hlenċa m
• Persian: زره‎ (fa) (zereh)
• Polish: kolczuga (pl) f
• Portuguese: cota de malha (pt)
• Russian: кольчу́га (ru) f (kolʹčúga)
• Serbo-Croatian: lančana košulja f

  Cyrillic: верижњача f

  Roman: verižnjača (sh) f

• Spanish: cota de malla f
• Swedish: ringbrynja c
• Turkish: örme zincir
• Ukrainian: кольчу́га f (kolʹčúha)

Etymology 2

From mail.

Noun

chain mail (countable and uncountable, plural chain mails)

1. (sometimes collectively) A chain letter.

Translations

chain letters collectively

• Finnish: ketjukirjeet pl

• Serbo-Croatian: forvarduša f

See also

• Mail (armour) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia