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English
Etymology
From pillow + case.
Pronunciation
Noun
pillowcase (plural pillowcases)
- A washable, easily removable cloth cover for pillows.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
sheet for covering a pillow
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Azerbaijani: balışüzü
- Belarusian: навалачка f (navalačka)
- Bulgarian: калъфка f (kalǎfka)
- Catalan: coixinera (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 枕頭套／枕头套 (zam2 tau4 tou3)
- Mandarin: 枕套 (zh) (zhěntào), 枕頭套／枕头套 (zh) (zhěntoutào)
- Czech: povlak na polštář m
- Danish: pudebetræk (da) n, pudevår (da) n
- Dutch: kussensloop (nl)
- Esperanto: kapkusentego
- Estonian: padjapüür
- Finnish: tyynynpäällinen (fi), tyynyliina (fi)
- French: taie d’oreiller f
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Kopfkissenbezug (de) m
- Greek: μαξιλαροθήκη (el) f (maxilarothíki)
- Hungarian: párnahuzat (hu)
- Hunsrik: Koppziegh f
- Icelandic: koddaver (is) n
- Ingrian: naulocka
- Irish: clúdach piliúir m
- Italian: federa (it) f
- Japanese: 枕カバー (ja) (makura kabā)
- Kalmyk: дерин һадр (derin ğadr)
- Korean: 베갯잇 (begaedit)
- Ladino: froña
- Latvian: spilvena pārvalks m, spilvendrāna f
- Luxembourgish: Kappzich f
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: дэрний уут (dernii uut), дэрний дугтуй (dernii dugtuj) (China)
- Mongolian: ᠳᠡᠷᠡᠨ ᠦ
ᠤᠭᠤᠲᠠ (deren-ü uɣuta), ᠳᠡᠷᠡᠨ ᠦ
ᠳᠤᠭᠲᠤᠢ (deren-ü duɣtui)
- Nepali: सिरानी-छोप्ने (sirānī-chopne)
- Norman: ântchie f (Jersey), entchaeure f (Guernsey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: putetrekk n, putevar n
- Nynorsk: putetrekk n, putevar n
- Plautdietsch: Bia f, Scheddinj f
- Polish: poszewka (pl) f, powłoczka f
- Portuguese: fronha (pt) f
- Romanian: față de pernă (ro) f
- Russian: на́волочка (ru) f (návoločka)
- Spanish: funda (de almohada) f
- Swahili: foronya
- Swedish: örngott (sv) n, kuddvar (sv) n, dynvar (sv) n
- Tagalog: punda
- Thai: ปลอกหมอน (bplɔ̀ɔk-mɔ̌ɔn)
- Tupinambá: akangupapuku aoba
- Turkish: yastık kılıfı (tr)
- Ukrainian: наволочка f (navoločka)
- Welsh: gorchudd gobennydd m, cas clustog m
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