hard hat

See also: hardhat

English

Alternative forms

• hardhat

Noun

hard hat (plural hard hats)

1. A helmet, usually made from rigid plastic, used on construction sites to protect the head from falling objects.
   • 2020 May 6, Tim Dunn, “The Architecture The Railways Built”, in Rail, page 72:

     My enthusiasm wasn't exactly suppressed - my father had worked for British Rail's property department, and one of my earliest memories was walking around the forlorn buildings at Old Oak Common depot wearing his oversized BR hard hat.

Synonyms

• bump cap
• construction helmet

Translations

construction helmet

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: шало́м m (šalóm), ка́ска f (káska)
• Catalan: casc de protecció m, casc de seguretat m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 安全帽 (on¹ cyun⁴ mou^6-2)

  Hakka: 安全帽 (ôn-chhiòn-mo)

  Hokkien: 安全帽 (an-choân-bō)

  Mandarin: 安全帽 (zh) (ānquánmào)

• Czech: přilba f
• Danish: sikkerhedshjelm c, beskyttelseshjelm c
• Dutch: veiligheidshelm (nl) m
• Estonian: ehituskiiver
• Finnish: kypärä (fi), työmaakypärä
• French: casque (fr) m, casque de chantier m
• Galician: casco (gl) m
• German: Schutzhelm (de) m, Bauhelm (de) m, Sicherheitshelm m
• Greek: κράνος ασφαλείας m (krános asfaleías)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: védősisak
• Italian: elmetto di protezione m
• Japanese: 安全帽 (ja) (あんぜんぼう, anzenbō), 保護帽 (ほごぼう, hogobō), ヘルメット (ja) (herumetto)
• Korean: 안전모(安全帽) (ko) (anjeonmo)
• Latvian: ķivere f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vernehjelm m

  Nynorsk: vernehjelm m

• Persian: کاسک (kâsk)
• Polish: kask (pl) m, kask budowlany m
• Portuguese: capacete de proteção m, capacete de segurança m
• Romanian: caschetă (ro) f, cască (ro) f
• Romansch: chapellina da protecziun f
• Russian: шлем-ка́ска m (šlem-káska), шлем (ru) m (šlem), ка́ска (ru) f (káska)
• Slovak: prilba f
• Slovene: zaščitna čelada f
• Spanish: casco (es) m
• Swahili: kofia ngumu
• Swedish: skyddshjälm (sv) c, byggarbetarhjälm c
• Turkish: baret (tr)
• Ukrainian: шоло́м m (šolóm), ка́ска (uk) f (káska)