béret

→ English: beret

→ Greek: μπερές (berés)

→ Polish: beret

→ Romanian: beretă, beret

desctree

→ Russian: бере́т (berét)
→ Georgian: ბერეტი (bereṭi)
→ Kazakh: берет (beret)

→ Turkish: bere

Borrowed from Occitan (Gascon) berret (“cap”), from Medieval Latin birretum, from Late Latin birrus (“large hooded cloak”), from Gaulish birrus (“short cloak”), from Proto-Celtic *birros (“short”) (compare Welsh byr, Middle Irish berr). Compare biretta, Catalan barret.


quichenotte

Allegedly from Middle English kisse me not, from the use of the cap to discourage English soldiers from dallying with French women during the Hundred Years' War.

a type of women's hat resembling a head scarf, popular in certain areas of France


fez

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish فس (fes). Mentioned as bonnet de fez in 1664. By the 19th century the word fez alone stood for the hat.


couronne

Inherited from Old French corone, inherited from Latin corōna, from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē).

La plupart avaient des tumeurs, et on se demandait toujours si c’était cancéreux ou pas, quand c’était cancéreux ils mouraient, et on donnait pour la couronne.

1961, Christiane Rochefort, Les petits enfants du siècle, Grasset, page 12:


turban

→ Danish: turban

→ English: turban

desctree

→ German: Turban
→ Serbo-Croatian: tùrbān, ту̀рба̄н

→ Polish: turban

→ Russian: тюрба́н (tjurbán)

→ Swedish: turban

→ Turkish: türban

Inherited from Middle French turbant, from Italian turbante, from Ottoman Turkish دلبند (tülbent), from Persian دلبند (dolband).


bigouden

a traditional head-dress made of lace from the Pays Bigouden in south west Brittany.


béguin

a type of headwear once popular with Beguines, similar to a bonnet


chaperon

From Old French, from chape (“head covering”) as the women who acted as chaperones wore head coverings. Equivalent to chape + -eron. More at English cap, cape.


chapeau

Antillean Creole: chapo

→ Chinook Jargon: siyáputl, siyápo

→ Quileute: tsiyá·pos

→ Choctaw: shʋpo, shapo

→ Galician: chapeu

→ German: Chapeau

→ Hausa: shàpô

desc

→ Hebrew: שָׁאפּוֹ

→ Hebrew: שָׁאפּוֹ

→ Iberian:

Catalan: xapó

Galician: chapeu

desctree

Portuguese: chapéu; (obsolete) chapeo
→ Konkani: चेपें (cepẽ)
→ Ladino: chapeo
→ Manado Malay: capeo (“hat”)
→ Swahili: chepeo

Spanish: chapeo

→ Jeju: 사포 (sapo)

→ Narragansett: shapú

Inherited from Middle French chappeau m, from Old French chapel m, from Early Medieval Latin cappellus m, diminutive from Late Latin cappa f. The interjection was originally short for chapeau bas.


foulard

→ English: foulard

→ Italian: foulard

→ Ottoman Turkish: فولار (fular)
Turkish: fular

→ Romanian: fular

→ Spanish: fular, foulard


casquette

→ Portuguese: casquete, casqueta

→ Russian: кашкет (kašket)

→ Turkish: kasket


perruque

→ Arabic: بَرُوكَة (barūka)

→ Catalan: perruca

→ Czech: paruka

→ Danish: paryk

→ German: Perücke

→ Greek: περούκα (peroúka)

→ English: periwig

→ English: peruke

→ English: wig

→ Esperanto: peruko

→ Spanish: peluca

→ Estonian: parukas

→ Finnish: peruukki

→ Galician: perruca

→ Ido: peruko

→ Italian: parrucca

→ Luxembourgish: Parréck

→ Lithuanian: perukas

→ Latvian: parūka

→ Macedonian: перика (perika)

→ Dutch: pruik

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: parykk

→ Norwegian: parykk

→ Plautdietsch: Pruck

→ Polish: peruka

→ Portuguese: peruca

→ Romanian: perucă

→ Turkish: peruk

→ Russian: парик (parik)

→ Azerbaijani: parik

→ Georgian: პარიკი (ṗariḳi)

→ Turkmen: parik

→ Uzbek: parik

Probably borrowed from western Lombard perrucca, parrucca. Compare the phonetic changes of intervocalic -L- into -R- of Italian parlare and Sicilian parrari.


barrette

→ English: barrette

→ Turkish: baret


barrette

→ Portuguese: barrete


fichu

→ English: fichu

Past participle of ficher (various senses). Also a minced oath for foutu.


fichu

fr-adj

fichu (feminine fichue, masculine plural fichus, feminine plural fichues)

fichue (feminine)
fichus (masculine plural)
fichues (feminine plural)

(colloquial) put together, rigged out, got up


feutre

Inherited from Old French feltre, from Frankish *filtir, from Proto-Germanic *filtizō, *felt (compare Old English felt).


mortier

Inherited from Old French mortier, inherited from Latin mortārium.

mortarboard (academic's ceremonial headgear) [from 1461]


calotte

→ Catalan: calota

→ English: calotte

→ German: Kalotte

→ Italian: calotta

→ Portuguese: calota, calote

→ Spanish: galota, galocha

Borrowed from Old Occitan calotta, calota, either an extension of French cale (“a kind of bonnet”), or from Arabic كَلُّوتَة (kallūta, “a headdress consisting of a small cap with a giant turban, or only the small cap”). See also French calot and Latin calautica, kinds of caps.

der

zucchetto (skullcap worn by Roman Catholic clergy)


bonnet de nuit

fr-noun

bonnet de nuit m (plural bonnets de nuit)

LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-bonnet de nuit.wav


capuchon

→ Hebrew: קַפּוּצ׳וֹן (kapuchón)

→ Dutch: capuchon

→ Russian: капюшо́н (kapjušón)

→ Swedish: kapuschong

→ Turkish: kapüşon

a hood, which may be attached to a cape, permanently or detachable


képi

→ Dutch: kepie

→ English: kepi

→ Italian: chepì

→ Portuguese: quepe, quépi (Portugal)

→ Romanian: chipiu

→ Russian: кепи (kepi)

→ Spanish: quepí, quepis

Borrowed from Alemannic German Käppi, compare German Kappe.

On descend à chaque instant du trottoir, à cause de la foule. Au milieu de la rue se trouve un commissariat, avec des agents sans képi et des bicyclettes à la porte.


coqueluche

From earlier coqueluchon (“a kind of monk's cowl or hood”), from Italian coccolucio, from Latin cucullus (“hood”). Sufferers of the 1510 influenza pandemic would wear a hood resembling the coqueluchon. The spelling and/or "whooping cough" sense may have been influenced by coq (“rooster”), from the cough evoking a rooster's crow.

vol coqueluche

treatment method for treating whooping cough symptoms

(figurative) craze, bug (something that "sweeps the nation")


calotte glaciaire

calotte glaciaire f (plural calottes glaciaires)


heaume

Inherited from Old French helme, from Early Medieval Latin helmus, from Frankish *helm, from Proto-Germanic *helmaz.


diadème

Borrowed from Latin diadēma, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek διάδημα (diádēma), from διαδέω (diadéō, “to bind around”).


calot

Attested since the 18th century, but of uncertain origin; possibly from Latin calō (“military servant, soldier”).


faluche

a type of dense white bread from northern France


tarbouche

Arabic طَرْبُوش (ṭarbūš)


couronne de lauriers

fr-noun

couronne de lauriers f (plural couronnes de lauriers)


chapeau claque

chapeau claque m (plural chapeaux claque)


bonnet de bain

bonnet de bain m (plural bonnets de bain)


bonnet de douche

bonnet de douche m (plural bonnets de douche)