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^(key): /ˈhelmɪt/

Noun

helmet (plural helmets)

1. A protective head covering.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 2, 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.

Synonyms

• brain bucket, hard hat

Derived terms

• bicycle helmet
• construction helmet
• crash helmet

Related terms

• helm

Translations

protective head covering

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

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

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

• Japanese: ヘルメット (ja) (herumetto), 兜 (ja) (かぶと, kabuto)
• Korean: 헬멧 (ko) (helmet)
• Latin: galea
• Lithuanian: šalmas (lt)
• Macedonian: шлем m (šlem), кацига f (káciga) (only for motor vehicles)
• Malay: topi keledar
• Maori: pōtae mārō
• Old Norse: hjalmr m
• Persian: (bicycle helmet) کلاه ایمنی ورزشی, خود (fa) (xud)
• Polish: hełm (pl) m, kask (pl) m
• Portuguese: capacete (pt) m, elmo m
• Romanian: cască (ro) f, coif (ro) m
• Russian: шлем (ru) m (šlem), каска (ru) m (káska), шелом (ru) (šelom) (obsolete)
• Scottish Gaelic: clogaid f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шлем m, кацига f

  Roman: šlem m, kaciga f

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

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Finnish

Noun

helmet

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

Declension

Declension of helmet (Kotus type 7/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