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Little Red Riding Hood

English

Κοκκινοσκουφίτσα (right)

Proper noun

Little Red Riding Hood

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

Translations

a folktale

Arabic: لَيْلَى وَالْذِئْب f ‎(laylā wa-l-ḏiʾb)
Armenian: Կարմիր գլխարկ ‎(Karmir glxark)
Belarusian: Чырвоны Каптурок m ‎(Čyrvóny Kapturók)
Bulgarian: Червената Шапчица f ‎(Červénata Šapčica)
Catalan: Caputxeta Vermella
Chinese:
Mandarin: 小紅帽 (zh), 小红帽 (zh) ‎(Xiǎo hóng mào)
Czech: Červená karkulka f
Dutch: Roodkapje (nl)
Finnish: Punahilkka (fi)
French: Petit Chaperon rouge (fr) m
Galician: Carapuchiña Vermella f
German: Rotkäppchen (de) n
Greek: Κοκκινοσκουφίτσα (el) f ‎(Kokkinoskoufítsa)
Hebrew: כיפה אדומה
Hindi: लिटिल रेड राईडिंग हूड ‎(liṭil rēḍ rā'īḍiṅg hūḍ)
Hungarian: Piroska és a farkas
Italian: Cappuccetto Rosso m
Japanese: 赤ずきん ‎(あかずきん, aka-zukin)

Korean: 빨강모자 소녀 ‎(ppalgangmoja sonyeo)
Macedonian: Црвенкапа f ‎(Crvénkapa)
Maltese: Barnussa Ħamra
Norwegian: Rødhette og ulven
Polish: Czerwony Kapturek
Portuguese: Chapeuzinho Vermelho
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
Spanish: Caperucita Roja
Swedish: Rödluvan (sv)
Thai: หนูน้อยหมวกแดง (th) ‎(nŏo-nói-mùak-daeng)
Turkish: Kırmızı Başlıklı Kız
Ukrainian: Червона Шапочка f ‎(Červóna Šápočka)
Vietnamese: cô bé quàng khăn đỏ

the main character in this story

Arabic: ذات الرداء الأحمر
Basque: Txano Gorritxo
Breton: Kabellig Ruz
Bulgarian: Червената шапчица ‎(Červenata šapčica)
Dutch: Roodkapje (nl)
Esperanto: Ruĝkufulineto
Finnish: Punahilkka (fi)

French: Petit Chaperon rouge (fr)
German: Rotkäppchen (de)
Greek: Κοκκινοσκουφίτσα (el) f ‎(Kokkinoskoufítsa)
Latin: Lacernella Rubra
Portuguese: Chapeuzinho Vermelho f
Swedish: Rödluvan (sv)
Turkish: Kırmızı Başlıklı Kız

External links

Little Red Riding Hood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia