英和和英

語源

From skull +‎ cap.

発音

• IPA: /ˈskʌlkæp/
• ハイフネーション: skull‧cap

名詞

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 Asbjø￵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:

     “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:

     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.

同意語

• (yarmulke): kippah

派生語

参考

アナグラム

• puckalls