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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Arabic مَنْدِيل (mandīl, “cloth put around things”), from Byzantine Greek μανδίλιον (mandílion), μαντίλιον (mantílion), μανδήλη (mandḗlē, “cloth, hand towel, handkerchief, tablecloth”), from Latin mantēlium, mantēle (“cloth, hand towel, handkerchief, tablecloth”).
Noun
مندیل • (mendil)
- tablecloth
- headcloth; turban; headscarf
- Synonym: (turban) دستار (destar)
- handkerchief
- Synonym: دستار (destar)
Descendants
References
- Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “1086. MÂNDÍLA”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 154