خاولی

See also: خاولي and حاولی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• خاولو (havlu), حاولی (havlu), حاولو (havlu), هاولی (havlu), هاولو (havlu)

Etymology

خاو (hav, “fuzz, down”) +‎ ـلی (-lu).

Noun

خاولی • (havlu)

1. towel

   Synonym: پیشگیر (peşgir, peşkir)

2. serviette, handkerchief, napkin

   Synonym: مندیل (mendil)

Descendants

• Turkish: havlu
• → Albanian: havlli, havli
• → Iraqi Arabic: خاولي (ḵāwlī)
• → Armenian: խավլու (xavlu)
• → Bulgarian: хавли́я (havlíja)
• → Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: xawlî

  Central Kurdish: خاولی (xawlî)

• → Persian: حوله (howle)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ха̀влија

  Latin script: hàvlija

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خاولی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 530b