مندیل

See also: منديل‎

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)

  1. tablecloth
  2. headcloth; turban; headscarf
  3. handkerchief

Descendants

References
  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007), “1086. MÂNDÍLA”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 154
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