{"id":16928,"date":"2018-10-19T17:24:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T16:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=16928"},"modified":"2018-10-19T17:24:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T16:24:57","slug":"shlyap-on-a-shapka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=16928","title":{"rendered":"Shlyap on a shapka"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\u0448\u0430\u043f\u043a\u0430,<\/p>\n

A Memrise Russian lesson<\/a> I’ve been working on this week includes two different words for hat: \u0448\u0430\u043f\u043a\u0430<\/strong> (shapka), which is translated as ‘hat (to keep you warm)’ and \u0448\u043b\u044f\u043f\u0430<\/strong> (shlyapa), which is defined as ‘a hat (for style)’.<\/p>\n

\u0428\u0430\u043f\u043a\u0430<\/strong> comes ultimately from the Old French chape<\/em> (cape) [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n

\u0428\u043b\u044f\u043f\u0430<\/strong> comes from the Old East Slavic \u0448\u043b\u044f\u043f\u0430<\/em> (\u0161ljapa – hat, milksop, difficult situation), from Bavarian German Schlappe<\/em> (defeat, flop, slap) [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n

When you search for \u0448\u0430\u043f\u043a\u0430<\/strong> in Google Images, you mainly get pictures of knitted woollen hats, like the bobble hat in the image, plus a few fur hats. <\/p>\n

When you do the same for \u0448\u043b\u044f\u043f\u0430<\/strong> you get mainly men’s hats, like the fedora in the image.<\/p>\n

Another word for hat in Russian is \u0448\u043b\u044f\u043f\u043a\u0430<\/strong> (shlyapka), which seems to refer to a variety of quite elaborate women’s hats, like in the image. It is a diminutive of \u0448\u043b\u044f\u043f\u0430<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I like these words because they’re fun to say.<\/p>\n

Are there other words for hat in Russian?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Memrise Russian lesson I’ve been working on this week includes two different words for hat: \u0448\u0430\u043f\u043a\u0430 (shapka), which is translated as ‘hat (to keep you warm)’ and \u0448\u043b\u044f\u043f\u0430 (shlyapa), which is defined as ‘a hat (for style)’. \u0428\u0430\u043f\u043a\u0430 comes ultimately from the Old French chape (cape) [source]. \u0428\u043b\u044f\u043f\u0430 comes from the Old East Slavic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,111,10,52,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-language","category-russian","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}