Bulgarian edit

 
пещемал (folk costume component)

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پشتمال (peştemal, peştamal, peştimal), پیشتمال (piştemal), from Persian پشتمال (poštmâl), from پشت (pošt, back, rear of the body) +‎ مال (mâl, cleaning). Also borrowed in English as peshtemal. Other cognates include Albanian peshtamall, Aromanian pishtamal and Serbo-Croatian пештѐма̄љpeštèmālj.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [pɛʃtɛˈmaɫ] (standard)
  • IPA(key): [piʃtiˈmaɫ] (common, non-standard)
  • Hyphenation(key): пе‧ще‧мал

Noun edit

пещема́л (peštemálm (diminutive пещема́лче)

  1. (colloquial) bath towel
    Synonym: пешки́р (peškír)
  2. (colloquial, regional) beach towel
  3. (dialectal) the back apron of the two-apron Bulgarian female folk costume - it is tied at the front and covers the shirt around the waist
  4. (archaic, dialectal) peshtemal, a type of narrow rectangular cotton towel used in Turkish baths

Declension edit

References edit

  • пещемал”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • пещемал”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
  • Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “пещемал”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 222
  • пищимал”, in BGJargon.com (in Bulgarian), 2007