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English

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Alternative forms

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• skull cap, skull-cap

Etymology

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From skull +‎ cap.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ˈskʌlkæp/
• Hyphenation: skull‧cap

Noun

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skullcap (plural skullcaps)

1. A small domed cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbj&oslash￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 285:He was a short man with a long hooked nose. A blue skull-cap with a red border scarcely covered his head of bristly grey hair, and a short-bodied but long Ringerike coat of dark grey frieze with worn velvet borders served to make the roundness and crookedness of his back still more conspicuous.
   • 2019 May 28, Jack Guy and Antonia Mortensen, “Germans urged to wear Jewish skullcap ahead of anti-Israel protests”, in CNN‎[1]:“I call on all citizens of Berlin and across Germany to wear the yarmulke (as the skullcap is known in Yiddish) next Saturday if there are new, intolerable attacks targeting Israel and Jews on the occasion of Al-Quds Day in Berlin,” said Felix Klein in a statement.
   • 2022 June 21, Joseph Ataman and Tara Subramaniam, “French court confirms ban on ‘burkinis’ in city’s swimming pools”, in CNN‎[2]:The French government in 2004 banned “conspicuous” religious symbols including Muslim headscarves, Jewish skullcaps and large Christian crosses from French schools.
2. A yarmulke-like hat.
3. (anatomy) The calvaria, the top part of the skull, covering the cranial cavity containing the brain.
4. (botany) Any of several species of flowering plants of the genus Scutellaria, in the Lamiaceae family.
5. (historical) A torture device for compressing the skull.

Synonyms

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• (yarmulke): kippah

Derived terms

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• baical skullcap
• mad-dog skullcap

Translations

[edit] cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck

Afrikaans: kippa, skedelmus Arabic: كِبَّة f (kibba) Armenian: թասակ (hy) (tʻasak) Bulgarian: кипа f (kipa), тюбетейка f (tjubetejka) Catalan: quipà f Chinese: Mandarin: 卡巴 (kǎbā) Czech: kipa f Dutch: kalotje f Finnish: kipa (fi) French: kippa (fr) f, calotte (fr) f German: Kippa (de) f, Schädeldecke (de) f, Scheitelkäppchen n Greek: σκούφος (el) m (skoúfos) Hebrew: כִּפָּה (he) f (kipá) Hungarian: sapka (hu), fejfedő (hu) Irish: bairéad cúil m Italian: kippah (it) f Japanese: キッパー (kippā), キッパ (kippa) Ottoman Turkish: طرپوش (tarpuş) Polish: jarmułka (pl) f Portuguese: quipá (pt) f, solidéu m Russian: ермо́лка (ru) f (jermólka), кипа́ (ru) f (kipá), скуфья́ (ru) f (skufʹjá) (dated) Spanish: kipá (es) f Turkmen: derlik Volapük: kalut Welsh: cap corun m Yiddish: יאַרמלקע f (yarmlke)

hat

Afrikaans: skedelmus Finnish: patalakki French: calotte (fr) f Greek: σκούφος (el) m (skoúfos) Hungarian: kipa (hu), jarmulke, fejfedő (hu), sábeszdekli (hu)

the top part of the skull — see calvaria flowering plant

Afrikaans: helmkruid Bulgarian: превара f (prevara) Finnish: vuohennokka (fi) French: scutellaire (fr) f German: Helmkraut n Irish: cochall m Polish: tarczyca (pl) f Portuguese: perilômia f Romanian: gura-lupului (ro) f

See also

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• kippah
• yarmulka, yarmulke
• zucchetto

Anagrams

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• puckalls

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