Phrygian cap

English

Macedonian artefact from 100s CE displaying a Phrygian cap; its inscription says Astyanax, meaning “city overlord” in Ancient Greek.

Noun

Phrygian cap (plural Phrygian caps)

A soft, close-fitting cap represented in Greek and Roman art as worn by Orientals, assumed to have been conical in shape, with the top bent forward. It has been adopted in modern art as the so-called liberty cap, or cap of liberty.

Translations

conical close-fitting cap with the top bent forward

Arabic: قُبَّعَة فْرِيجِيَة‎‎ f (qubbaʿa(t) frījiya)
Basque: frigiar txano
Belarusian: фрыгі́йскі каўпа́к m (fryhíjski kaŭpák), фракі́йскі каўпа́к m (frakíjski kaŭpák)
Bulgarian: фригийска шапка f (frigijska šapka), шапка на свободата f (šapka na svobodata)
Catalan: barret frigi m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 弗裡吉亞無邊便帽, 弗里吉亚无边便帽 (Fúlǐjíyà wúbiān biànmào), 自由之帽 (zìyóu zhīmào)
Czech: frygická čapka f
Dutch: Frygische muts f
Esperanto: friga ĉapo
Estonian: früügia müts
Finnish: fryygialaismyssy
French: bonnet phrygien (fr) m
German: phrygische Mütze f, (rare) skythische Mütze f
Hebrew: מִצְנֶפֶת פְרִיגִיָּת‎‎ f (mitznefét frigíyat)
Italian: berretto frigio m, cappello frigio m, berretto di Frigia m
Japanese: フリジア帽 (フリジアぼう, Furijia-bō)
Korean: 프리기아 모자 (Peurigia moja)

Limburgish: frygische mutsj f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: frygisk lue m, frihetslue m, jakobinerlue m

Nynorsk: frygisk hue f
Persian: کلاه آزادی‎‎ (kolâh âzâdi), کلاه فریژی‎‎ (kolâh fariži)
Polish: czapka frygijska f, czapka wolności f
Portuguese: barrete frígio m, barrete da liberdade m
Romanian: bonetă frigiană (ro) f
Russian: фриги́йский колпа́к m (frigíjskij kolpák), фраки́йский колпа́к m (frakíjskij kolpák)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: фригијска ка̏па f

Roman: frigijska kȁpa f
Slovak: frýgická čiapka f, (rare) skýtska čiapka f
Spanish: gorro frigio m
Swedish: frygisk mössa (sv) c, frihetsmössa c, jakobinmössa c
Turkish: Frigya başlığı
Ukrainian: фригі́йський ковпа́к m (fryhíjsʹkyj kovpák)
Western Panjabi: فرائیگین ٹوپی‎‎ f (farīʾigiya ṭopī)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Phrygian cap in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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