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wishing cap

wishing cap

9.9
A cap that makes your wishes come true when you wear it
  • noun
  • Literature
translation icon : gorra mágica
  • The hero placed the wishing cap on his head and immediately found himself in a faraway land.

Examples

  • Legends say that whoever possesses the wishing cap can fulfill any desire.

  • He found a wishing cap in the attic.

  • Children listened with wide eyes as the storyteller described the magical powers of the wishing cap.

  • The wishing cap granted her three wishes.

  • When he wore the wishing cap, all his dreams seemed to come true.

  • In the story, the child found a wishing cap that could grant any wish he desired.

  • Legends say that a wishing cap can turn thoughts into reality for its wearer.

Synonyms

Aladdin's lamp
vswishing cap
  • Literature
1 7.4

A small magical lamp in the story that brings a genie to grant wishes

grants wishes directly to the wearer without summoning another being

Surface Forms

wishing cap singular
wishing caps plural

Morphology

wish + cap

The meaning is directly derivable from 'wish' + 'cap' with 'wishing' functioning as an attributive modifier, so a B1 learner who knows 'wish' and 'cap' will infer a cap associated with wishes (i.e., one that grants or is used for wishing). This composition follows common English patterns (cf. 'wishing well') and is cross-linguistically transparent, making it immediately comprehensible.

Etymology

Wishing cap comes from old stories about a small cap that had magic: when someone put it on and made a 'wish', the cap would make the wish come true, so the name now means a hat or object imagined to give someone what they want.