رومال

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Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian رُومَال (rūmāl, literally face-wiper).

Pronunciation

Noun

رُومَال (rūmālm (Hindi spelling रूमाल)

  1. handkerchief
  2. napkin
  3. (rare or dated) gaddi

Declension

    Declension of رومال
singular plural
direct رُومَال (rūmāl) رُومَال (rūmāl)
oblique رُومَال (rūmāl) رُومَالوں (rūmālõ)
vocative رُومَال (rūmāl) رُومَالو (rūmālo)

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