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Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian رُومَال (rūmāl, literally “face-wiper”).
Pronunciation
Noun
رُومَال • (rūmāl) m (Hindi spelling रूमाल)
- handkerchief
- napkin
- (rare or dated) gaddi
Declension
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singular
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plural
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رُومَال (rūmāl)
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رُومَال (rūmāl)
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| oblique
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رُومَال (rūmāl)
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رُومَالوں (rūmālō̃)
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| vocative
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رُومَال (rūmāl)
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رُومَالو (rūmālō)
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Further reading
- “رومال”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “رومال”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “رو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “رومال”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “رومال”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “رومال”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC