chain mail

Etymology 1
+ mail; attested since the 1780s.

Noun

 * 1) A flexible defensive armor, made of a mesh of interlinked metal rings.

Usage notes

 * When this armor was in common use, it was known simply as . The term chain mail dates to the 1780s, and has become a common retronym due to other meanings of mail (like "letters, post", which is not etymologically related) becoming more common, and due to the terms scale mail and plate mail coming into use to denote other forms of armor composed of similar small interlocking pieces. Since at least the 1930s, some people have objected to chain mail as redundant.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: زَرَد
 * Armenian:
 * Bashkir: тимер күлдәк, һайман
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: cota de malla, cota de malles
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: kroužkové brnění, kroužková zbroj
 * Danish: ringbrynje
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: silmukkapanssari, rengashaarniska
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German: Kettenrüstung,
 * Greek: αλυσιδωτή πανοπλία
 * Hungarian:
 * Ingrian: rautapaita
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 鎖帷子
 * Korean: 쇄자갑
 * Latin: donec posuere, armorum
 * Macedonian: вери́жница, панцирна кошула
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ringbrynje
 * Nynorsk: brynje, ringbrynje
 * Old English: hlenċa
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: lančana košulja
 * Cyrillic: верижњача
 * Roman:
 * Spanish: cota de malla
 * Swedish: ringbrynja
 * Turkish: örme zincir
 * Ukrainian: кольчу́га

Etymology 2
From mail.

Noun

 * 1)  A chain letter.

Translations

 * Finnish: ketjukirjeet
 * Serbo-Croatian: forvarduša