towel

Etymology
From, , , , from (modern 🇨🇬), , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬 (modern dialectal 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Pronunciation




Noun

 * 1) A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, such as a person after a bath.

Hyponyms

 * see also Derived terms below
 * see also Derived terms below

Translations

 * Adyghe: нэпэӏэплъэкӏ
 * Afrikaans: handdoek
 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: مِنْشَفَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: فوطة
 * Gulf Arabic: فوطة
 * Hijazi Arabic: مِنْشَفة
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: prusopi
 * Asturian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: məhrəba,
 * Bashkir: таҫтамал
 * Belarusian: ручні́к, рушні́к, уціра́льнік
 * Bengali:
 * Brunei Malay: tuala
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: toalya
 * Chechen: гата
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 毛巾
 * Dungan: шуҗин
 * Hokkien: 毛巾
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Crimean Tatar: yüzbez, testimal, avlu
 * Czech:
 * Danish:,  ,
 * Dutch:
 * Elfdalian: andduk
 * Esperanto: viŝilo, mantuko
 * Estonian: rätik
 * Faroese: hondklæði, handklæði
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: toalla
 * Gallurese: maccrammè, sciuamanu
 * Georgian: პირსახოცი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: χειρόμακτρον
 * Greenlandic: allarut
 * Gujarati: ટુવાલ
 * Hebrew:
 * Hiligaynon: tualya
 * Hindi:, अंगोछा
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: räpäkkä
 * Ingush: гата
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese:
 * Carakan: ꦲꦤ꧀ꦝꦸꦏ꧀
 * Rumi: andhuk
 * Kannada: ಟವಲ್
 * Kazakh: сүлгі
 * Khmer:
 * Konkani: भैरासु
 * Korean:, 타월
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao: ຂົນຫນູ, ຜ້າເຊັດໂຕ, ຜ້າເຊັດ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: dvielis
 * Lithuanian: rankšluostis
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: Dweel, Handdook
 * Lü: ᦕᦱᧉᦵᦋᧆᦐᦱᧉ
 * Luhya: etaulo
 * Lun Bawang: anduk
 * Lushootseed: ʔik̓ʷusəd
 * Luxembourgish: Handduch
 * Macedonian: пешкир, крпа, рачник
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: xugaman
 * Manchu: ᡶᡠᠩᡴᡠ
 * Maranao: towaliya
 * Middle English: towayle
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠠᠯᠴᠢᠭᠤᠷ
 * Navajo: beeʼádítʼoodí, beeʼádítʼoodí yázhí
 * Norman: sèrviette
 * Northern Sami: sihkaldat
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, handkle
 * Nynorsk: handkle, handklede
 * Old East Slavic: ручьникъ
 * Old English: wæterclāþ
 * Oromo: fooxaa
 * Ottoman Turkish: دستار
 * Pashto:, , توليا, توليه
 * Persian:
 * Dari: ,
 * Iranian Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Gurmukhi:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: sientamauns
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sami:
 * Kildin Sami: отеральнэһкь
 * Skolt Sami: sekldõs, uʹtreeʹlniǩ, sekldõk
 * Sardinian:
 * Campidanese: tialla de facci, tiallòra
 * Logudorese: frobbidoryu, frobbidorzu
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пѐшкӣр, у̀брус, ру̀чнӣк
 * Roman:, ,
 * Sicilian:
 * Sinhalese: තුවා
 * Slovak: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Upper Sorbian: trjenje
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tabasaran: дасмал
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik: дастурӯпоккун, танпоккун, сачоқ
 * Tamil:
 * Taos: tûoyoną
 * Tatar:
 * Tausug: jimpaw
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: ཨ་ཅོར, ཞལ་ཅོར
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: polotenste, polotense, polotensa
 * Ukrainian:, утира́ч
 * Urdu: تَولِیَہ, آبچِین, اَن٘گوچھا
 * Uyghur: لۆڭگە
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Waray-Waray: tu-alya
 * Welsh:
 * Xhosa: itawuli
 * Yami: tenegey
 * Yiddish: האַנטעך
 * Zazaki: hewli, abçin, pésger, holi

Verb

 * 1)  To hit with a towel.
 * 2)  To dry by using a towel.
 * 3)  To block up (a door, etc.) with a towel, to conceal the fumes of a recreational drug.
 * 4)  To beat with a stick, or "oaken towel".
 * 1)  To beat with a stick, or "oaken towel".
 * 1)  To beat with a stick, or "oaken towel".