knee + cap
kneecap (plural kneecaps)
- (anatomy) The flat, roundish bone in the knee.
- Synonyms: kneepan, patella, rotula, scutum
- (roofing) A metal cover trim that fits over a panel rib after it has been cut and bent.
- A cap or strong covering for the knees, used chiefly for horses, to protect their knees in case of a fall.
bone
- Afrikaans: knieskyf
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: رَضَفَة f (raḍafa)
- Egyptian Arabic: صبونة f (ṣabuna)
- Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܙܵܒ݂ܘܼܪܬܵܐ ܕܥܲܛܡܵܐ f
- Armenian: ծնկոսկր (hy) (cnkoskr)
- Azerbaijani: diz qapağı
- Bashkir: тубыҡ ҡапҡасы (tubıq qapqası)
- Basque: belaunburu
- Breton: mell-glin m
- Brunei Malay: kapala tuhut
- Bulgarian: патела (bg) f (patela), капачка на коляното (kapačka na koljanoto)
- Burmese: ဒူးခေါင်း (my) (du:hkaung:)
- Catalan: ròtula (ca) f, patel·la f
- Central Melanau: sulau bukou
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 膝蓋骨/膝盖骨 (zh) (xīgàigǔ)
- Cornish: penn glin m
- Czech: čéška (cs) f
- Danish: knæskal (da) c
- Dhivehi: ފިޔަން ކަށިގަނޑު (fiyan̊ kaṣigaⁿḍu)
- Dutch: knieschijf (nl) f or m, patella (nl) f or m
- Esperanto: patelo
- Finnish: polvilumpio (fi)
- French: rotule (fr) f
- Galician: rodela f, rótula (gl) f
- Georgian: კვირისთავი (ḳviristavi), სამუხლე (samuxle)
- German: Kniescheibe (de) f, Patella (de) f
- Greek: επιγονατίδα (el) f (epigonatída)
- Guaraní: penarã
- Hebrew: פיקה (he) f (piká)
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: térdkalács (hu)
- Icelandic: hnéskel (is) f
- Indonesian: tempurung lutut (id), patela (id), cencawan (id), kunci-kunci lutut
- Ingrian: polvensilmä, polvenkakku
- Irish: gealacán m, gealacán glúine m, caipín glúine m
- Italian: rotula (it) f, patella f
- Japanese: 膝蓋骨 (ja) (しつがいこつ, shitsugaikotsu)
- Kannada: ಮಂಡಿಚಿಪ್ಪು (kn) (maṇḍicippu)
- Kapampangan: bulakus
- Khmer: ក្បាលជង្គង់ (kbaal cŭəngkŭəng)
- Korean: 슬개골(膝蓋骨) (ko) (seulgaegol), 무릎뼈 (ko) (mureupppyeo)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: kulavê çokê
- Lao: ຫມາກບ້າຫົວເຂົ່າ (māk bā hūa khao), ສະບັງ (sa bang), ຊານຸມົນທົນ (sā nu mon thon)
- Latin: patella f
- Luxembourgish: Knéischeif f
- Malay: tempurung lutut, cencawan, kunci-kunci lutut, patela
- Malayalam: മുട്ടിൻചിരട്ട (muṭṭiṉciraṭṭa)
- Maltese: please add this translation if you can
- Maori: popoki
- Mongolian: тойг (mn) (tojg)
- Nepali: please add this translation if you can
- Newar: पुलिक्वँय् (pulikwãê)
- Norman: palette du g'nou f (Jersey)
- Northern Sami: čibbeskálžu
- Ottoman Turkish: دیز قپاغی (diz kapağı)
- Persian: کشکک (fa) (kaškak)
- Polish: rzepka (pl) f
- Portuguese: rótula (pt), patela (pt) f
- Russian: коле́нная ча́шечка f (kolénnaja čášečka), надколе́нник (ru) m (nadkolénnik), надколе́нная ча́шка f (nadkolénnaja čáška)
- Sanskrit: कपोल (sa) m (kapola)
- Saraiki: چُھوݨی (skr) f (chūṇī)
- Scottish Gaelic: failmean m
- Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
- Slovene: pogačica (sl) f
- Spanish: rótula (es) f
- Swedish: knäskål (sv) c
- Tagalog: suklob-tuhod, suklob ng tuhod, bayugo
- Telugu: మోకాటి చిప్ప (mōkāṭi cippa)
- Thai: สะบ้า (sà-bâa)
- Tibetan: པུས་མོའི་ལྷ་ང (pus mo'i lha nga)
- Turkish: diz kapağı (tr), patella
- Ukrainian: колі́нна ча́шечка f (kolínna čášečka), наколі́нок m (nakolínok), надколі́нок m (nadkolínok), наколі́нник m (nakolínnyk), надколі́нник m (nadkolínnyk)
- Vietnamese: xương bánh chè
- Volapük: patel
- Welsh: padell pen-glin f, pellen pen-glin f
- White Hmong: pob hauv caug
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kneecap (third-person singular simple present kneecaps, present participle kneecapping, simple past and past participle kneecapped)
- (transitive) To destroy the knees of (a person), usually by shooting at the knees, as a punishment carried out by criminals or terrorists.
2020, Liam Kennedy, Who Was Responsible for the Troubles?, McGill-Queen's Press, →ISBN, page 109:The Sinn Féin press officer Richard McAuley freely admitted, “Back four or five years ago, people were getting kneecapped who should not have been kneecapped.”
- (transitive, figurative, by extension) To attack (someone) in a way that is excessively and needlessly damaging: To cut (someone) off at the knees.
- The literal sense of this term is considered a misnomer by medical professionals because only a very small minority of victims suffer damage to the kneecap.