Little Red Riding Hood

Little Red Riding Hood

English

Little Red Riding Hood (right)

Etymology

From little, red and riding hood.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪtl̩ ɹɛd ɹaɪ.dɪŋ hʊd/

Proper noun

Little Red Riding Hood

1. A fairy tale about a young girl who walks through the forest to visit her grandmother and encounters the Big Bad Wolf (or another vicious wolf, or werewolf in archaic versions).
2. The girl who is the protagonist and title character in this story.

Translations

a folktale

Afrikaans: Rooikappie (af) Arabic: لَيْلَى وَٱلذِّئْب‎ f (laylā waḏ-ḏiʾb) Armenian: Կարմիր գլխարկը (Karmir glxarkə) Basque: Txano Gorritxo Belarusian: Чырво́ны Каптуро́к m (Čyrvóny Kapturók) Breton: Kabellig Ruz Bulgarian: Черве́ната шапчица f (Červénata šapčica) Catalan: Caputxeta Vermella f Central Franconian: Rudkäppche op kölsch Chinese: Mandarin: 小紅帽／小红帽 (zh) (Xiǎo hóngmào) Cimbrian: Roathüatle n Czech: Červená karkulka (cs) f Danish: Rødhætte c Dutch: Roodkapje (nl) n Esperanto: Ruĝkufulineto Finnish: Punahilkka (fi) French: Petit Chaperon rouge (fr) m Galician: Carapuchiña Vermella f Georgian: წითელქუდა (c̣itelkuda) German: Rotkäppchen (de) n Greek: Κοκκινοσκουφίτσα (el) f (Kokkinoskoufítsa) Hebrew: כִּפָּה אֲדֻמָּה‎ (he) (kippá adumá) Hindi: लिटिल रेड राईडिंग हूड (liṭil reḍ rāīḍiṅg hūḍ) Hungarian: Piroska és a farkas Icelandic: Rauðhetta f Indonesian: Si Kerudung Merah Italian: Cappuccetto Rosso m Japanese: 赤ずきん (あかずきん, aka-zukin) Kapampangan: Mainsak a manlalakbeng makamalutung pandung Kazakh: Қызыл телпек (Qyzyl telpek) Korean: 빨강모자 소녀 (ppalgangmoja sonyeo) Latin: Lacernella Rubra f Latvian: Sarkangalvīte Lithuanian: Raudonkepuraitė Macedonian: Црве́нкапа f (Crvénkapa) Maltese: Barnussa Ħamra f Mongolian: Улаан малгайт (Ulaan malgajt) Norwegian: Rødhette og ulven Occitan: Capaironet Roge m Papiamentu: Capa Cora Persian: شنل‌قرمزی‎ Polish: Czerwony Kapturek m Portuguese: Chapeuzinho Vermelho m Quechua: Puka Kapirusitamanta Romanian: Scufița Roșie (ro) f Russian: Кра́сная Ша́почка (ru) f (Krásnaja Šápočka) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Црвенкапа f, Црвенкапица f Roman: Crvenkapa f, Crvenkapica f Slovak: Červená karkulka f Slovene: Rdeča kapica (sl) Spanish: Caperucita Roja f Swedish: Rödluvan (sv) c Thai: หนูน้อยหมวกแดง (th) (nŏo-nói-mùak-daeng) Tibetan: ༄༅༎ ཞྭ་མོ་དམར་ཆུང Turkish: Kırmızı Başlıklı Kız Ukrainian: Черво́на Ша́почка f (Červóna Šápočka) Vietnamese: cô bé quàng khăn đỏ Walloon: Rodje Capucete Welsh: Hugan Goch Fach West Frisian: Readkapke

the main character in this story

Afrikaans: Rooikappie (af) Arabic: ذَات الرَّدَاء الأَحْمَر‎ f (ḏāt ar-radāʾ al-ʾaḥmar) Armenian: Կարմիր գլխարկ (Karmir glxark) Basque: Txano Gorritxo Breton: Kabellig Ruz Bulgarian: Черве́ната шапчица f (Červénata šapčica) Catalan: Caputxeta Vermella f Cornish: Huk Vyghan Rudh f Czech: Červená karkulka (cs) f Danish: Rødhætte c Dutch: Roodkapje (nl) n Esperanto: Ruĝkufulineto Finnish: Punahilkka (fi) French: Petit Chaperon rouge (fr) m Georgian: წითელქუდა (c̣itelkuda) German: Rotkäppchen (de) n Greek: Κοκκινοσκουφίτσα (el) f (Kokkinoskoufítsa) Hungarian: Piroska (hu) Kapampangan: I Makamalutung pandung Kazakh: Қызыл телпек (Qyzyl telpek) Latin: Lacernella Rubra f Mongolian: Улаан малгайт (Ulaan malgajt) Norwegian: Rødhette Polish: Czerwony Kapturek m Portuguese: Chapeuzinho Vermelho f Swedish: Rödluvan (sv) c Turkish: Kırmızı Başlıklı Kız Walloon: Rodje Capucete

Further reading

• Little Red Riding Hood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia