FromMiddle High Germanhülle, fromOld High Germanhulla, derived from the verbhullen (whence modernhüllen), fromProto-West Germanic*hulljan, fromProto-Germanic*huljaną. Related withEnglishhull, though not immediately cognate.
Hülle f (genitiveHülle,pluralHüllen)
- covering,wrapping
- case,sheath
- Synonym:Hülse
- husk(useless, dried-up, worthless exterior)
- mantle(anything that covers or conceals something else)
- shell(any hollow structure; framework, or exterior structure)
- cladding(hard coating, bonded onto the outside of something to add protection)
- (aeronautics)envelope(bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship)
- (chemistry)shell(set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number)
- (mathematics)closure(smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property)
Declension ofHülle [feminine]
- “Hülle” inDuden online
- “Hülle” inDigitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
