helmet

English

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, has gradually displaced Old English helm as the generic word.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛlmɪt/

Noun

helmet (plural helmets)

1. A protective head covering.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 2, in The China Governess^[1]:

     Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety.  She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.

2. That which resembles a helmet in form, position, etc.
   1. The upper part of a chemist's retort.
   2. The hood-shaped upper sepal or petal of some flowers, as of the monkshood or the snapdragon.
   3. A naked shield or protuberance on the top or fore part of the head of a bird.
   4. (heraldry) The feature above a shield on a coat of arms.

Synonyms

• brain bucket, hard hat

Derived terms

• combat helmet
• bicycle helmet
• construction helmet
• crash helmet

Related terms

• helm

Translations

protective head covering

• Arabic: خُوذَة‏‎ f (ḵūḏa)
• Armenian: սաղավարտ (hy) (sałavart)
• Asturian: cascu m, yelmu m
• Azeri: dəbilqə, kaska
• Basque: kasko
• Belarusian: шало́м m (šalóm), ка́ска f (káska)
• Bulgarian: шлем (bg) m (šlem), ка́ска f (káska)
• Burmese: ဦးခေါင်းဆောင် (u:hkaung:hcaung)
• Catalan: casc (ca) m, elm (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鋼盔 (zh), 钢盔 (zh) (gāngkuī), 頭盔 (zh), 头盔 (zh) (tóukuī)

• Czech: helma (cs) f, helmice f, přilba f, přilbice f
• Danish: hjelm c
• Dutch: helm (nl) m
• Esperanto: kasko
• Estonian: kiiver
• Finnish: kypärä (fi)
• French: casque (fr) m
• Galician: casco m, helmo m
• Georgian: ჩაფხუტი (čapxuṭi), მუზარადი (muzaradi)
• German: Helm (de) m
• Gothic: 𐌷𐌹𐌻𐌼𐍃 m (hilms)
• Greek: κράνος (el) n (krános)
• Hebrew: קַסְדָּה‏‎ (he) f (kasda)
• Hungarian: sisak (hu), bukósisak (hu)
• Icelandic: hjálmur (is) m
• Indonesian: helm (id)
• Irish: ceannbheart m, f, clogad (ga) m
• Italian: casco (it) m
• Japanese: ヘルメット (ja) (herumetto), 兜 (ja) (かぶと, kabuto)
• Kalmyk: дуулх (duulx)
• Kazakh: дулыға (dwlığa)

• Korean: 헬멧 (ko) (helmet)
• Lao: ໝວກກັນກະທົບ (lo) (mūak kan ka thop)
• Latin: galea
• Latvian: ķivere f
• Lithuanian: šalmas (lt)
• Macedonian: шлем m (šlem), ка́цига f (káciga) (only for motor vehicles)
• Malay: topi keledar
• Maltese: elmu m
• Maori: pōtae mārō
• Norwegian: hjelm (no) m
• Old Norse: hjalmr m
• Persian: (bicycle helmet) کلاه ایمنی ورزشی‏‎‎, خود‏‎ (fa) (xud)‎, کلاه ایمنی‏‎ (fa)‎, کلاه کاسکت‏‎
• Polish: hełm (pl) m, kask (pl) m
• Portuguese: capacete (pt) m, elmo (pt) m
• Romanian: cască (ro) f, coif (ro) m
• Russian: шлем (ru) m (šlem), ка́ска (ru) m (káska), шело́м (ru) m (šelóm) (obsolete)
• Scottish Gaelic: clogaid f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шлем m, кацига f

  Roman: šlem (sh) m, kaciga (sh) f

• Slovak: helma (sk) f
• Slovene: čelada (sl) f
• Spanish: casco (es) m, yelmo (es) m
• Swahili: helmeti, kofia ya chuma
• Swedish: hjälm (sv) c
• Telugu: శిరస్త్రాణము (te) (śirastrāṇamu)
• Thai: หมวกนิรภัย (mùak ní-rá-pai), หมวกเชื่อม (mùak chêuam)
• Turkish: kask (tr), miğfer (tr)
• Ukrainian: шоло́м m (šolóm), ка́ска (uk) f (káska)
• Vietnamese: mũ bảo hiểm
• Welsh: helm f, helmed f
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

Verb

helmet (third-person singular simple present helmets, present participle helmeting, simple past and past participle helmeted)

1. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, a helmet.

Anagrams

• Lethem

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Finnish

Noun

helmet

1. Nominative plural form of helmi.
2. necklace made of pearls or beads

Declension

Inflection of helmet (Kotus type 7/ovi, no gradation)
nominative		—	helmet
genitive		—	helmien
partitive		—	helmiä
illative		—	helmiin
		singular	plural
nominative		—	helmet
accusative	nom.	—	helmet
	gen.	—
genitive		—	helmien
partitive		—	helmiä
inessive		—	helmissä
elative		—	helmistä
illative		—	helmiin
adessive		—	helmillä
ablative		—	helmiltä
allative		—	helmille
essive		—	helminä
translative		—	helmiksi
instructive		—	helmin
abessive		—	helmittä
comitative		—	helmineen

Synonyms

• (necklace): helminauha