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English[edit]
Wheel and hubcap of 1960s Studebaker car
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Etymology[edit]
hub + cap
hubcap (plural hubcaps)
- A decorative and protective disk that covers the hub of a motor car wheel.
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Translations[edit]
decorative disk for wheels
- Bulgarian: тас m (tas)
- Catalan: tapaboques m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 輪轂罩／轮毂罩 (zh) (lúngǔzhào), 軑／轪 (zh) (dài)
- Dutch: wieldop (nl) m, naafdop (nl)
- Finnish: pölykapseli
- French: chapeau de roue (fr) m, enjoliveur (fr) m
- German: Radkappe (de) f
- Hebrew: טסה
- Hungarian: dísztárcsa (hu)
- Icelandic: hjólkoppur (is) m
- Irish: caipín moil m
- Japanese: ホイールキャップ (hoīru kyappu)
- Korean: 휠캡 (hwilkaep)
- Persian: قالپاق (fa) (qâlpâq)
- Polish: kołpak (pl) m
- Portuguese: calota
- Russian: колпа́к (ru) m (kolpák)
- Spanish: copa (es) f (Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Northwestern Venezuela, Panama), taza (es) f (Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuelan standard usage), tapabocinas m (Puerto Rico), tapacubos (es) m (Spain), taparruedas m (Chile), tapón m (Mexico), vaso (es) m (Peru)
- Swedish: navkapsel (sv) c, hjulsida c, fälgsida c
- Turkish: jant kapağı
- Welsh: cap both m
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