Little Red Riding Hood

English

Little Red Riding Hood (right)

Alternative forms

• Little Red Riding-Hood

Etymology

From little +‎ red +‎ 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-ḏiʔb)
• Armenian: Կարմիր գլխարկը (Karmir glxarkə)
• Basque: Txano Gorritxo
• Belarusian: Чырво́ны Каптуро́к m (Čyrvóny Kapturók)
• Breton: Kabellig Ruz (br)
• 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 Hóng Mào)

• 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 (ja) (あかずきん, Akazukin)
• 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, Rödluvan och vargen
• 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-radāʔ al-ʔaḥmar)
• Armenian: Կարմիր գլխարկ (Karmir glxark)
• Basque: Txano Gorritxo
• Breton: Kabellig Ruz (br)
• 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
• Lithuanian: Raudonkepuraitė f
• Mongolian: Улаан малгайт (Ulaan malgajt)
• Norwegian: Rødhette
• Polish: Czerwony Kapturek m
• Portuguese: Chapeuzinho Vermelho f
• Russian: Кра́сная Ша́почка (ru) f (Krásnaja Šápočka)
• Swedish: Rödluvan (sv) c
• Turkish: Kırmızı Başlıklı Kız
• Walloon: Rodje Capucete

Further reading

• Little Red Riding Hood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia