Skullcap

//ˈskʌlkæp//

Synonyms for "skullcap" (10 found)

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Closest matches (2)

Noun(1 words)

Strong matches (3)

Related words (5)

Related word relations

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More general

5 entries

Synonyms

3 entries

Related terms

4 entries

at location

1 entries

derived

2 entries

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has context

1 entries

is a

1 entries

related to

16 entries

Translations

53 translations across 27 languages.

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Afrikaans

4 entries
  • helmkruid noun (flowering plant)
  • kippa noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)
  • skedelmus noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)
  • skedelmus noun (hat)

Arabic

1 entries
  • كِبَّة noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)

Armenian

1 entries
  • թասակ noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)

Bulgarian

3 entries
  • кипа noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)
  • превара noun (flowering plant)
  • тюбетейка noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)

Catalan

1 entries
  • quipà noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 卡巴 noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)

Czech

1 entries
  • kipa noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)

Dutch

1 entries
  • kalotje noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)

Finnish

3 entries
  • kipa noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)
  • patalakki noun (hat)
  • vuohennokka noun (flowering plant)

French

4 entries
  • calotte noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)
  • calotte noun (hat)
  • kippa noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)
  • scutellaire noun (flowering plant)

German

4 entries
  • Helmkraut noun (flowering plant)
  • Kippa noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)
  • Scheitelkäppchen noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)
  • Schädeldecke noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)

Greek

2 entries
  • σκούφος noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)
  • σκούφος noun (hat)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • כִּפָּה noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)

Hungarian

4 entries
  • fejfedő noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)
  • fejfedő noun (hat)
  • jarmulke noun (hat)
  • kipa noun (hat)

Irish

2 entries
  • bairéad cúil noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)
  • cochall noun (flowering plant)

Italian

1 entries
  • kippah noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)

Japanese

2 entries
  • キッパ noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)
  • キッパー noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries
  • طرپوش noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)

Polish

2 entries
  • jarmułka noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)
  • tarczyca noun (flowering plant)

Portuguese

3 entries
  • perilômia noun (flowering plant)
  • quipá noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)
  • solidéu noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)

Romanian

1 entries
  • gura-lupului noun (flowering plant)

Russian

3 entries
  • ермо́лка noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)
  • кипа́ noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)
  • скуфья́ noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)

Spanish

1 entries
  • kipá noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)

Turkmen

1 entries
  • derlik noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)

Volapük

1 entries
  • kalut noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)

Welsh

1 entries
  • cap corun noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)

Yiddish

1 entries
  • יאַרמלקע noun (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck)

Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

You couldn't just don a skullcap and gatecrash a synagogue.

Source: tatoeba (8312025)

Why is Tom wearing a skullcap?

Source: tatoeba (12103807)

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.

Source: wiktionary

“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.

Source: wiktionary

Showing 4 of 5 available sentences.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.