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Russian
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian شال (šâl).
Pronunciation
Noun
шаль • (šalʹ) f inan (genitive ша́ли, nominative plural ша́ли, genitive plural ша́лей)
- shawl (a square piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders)
1869, Иван Гончаров, “Часть I. Глава IX”, in Обрыв; English translation from Stephen Pearl, transl., Malinovka Heights, Alma Classics, 2020:Наки́нув шаль и заду́мавшись, она́ походи́ла на оди́н ста́рый же́нский портре́т, бы́вший в ста́ром до́ме, в галере́е пре́дков.- Nakínuv šalʹ i zadúmavšisʹ, oná poxodíla na odín stáryj žénskij portrét, bývšij v stárom dóme, v galeréje prédkov.
- Throwing a shawl around her shoulders, and still deep in thought, she went over to look at an old portrait of a woman which had been brought from the old house where it had been hung in a gallery of ancestors.
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