Etymology
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From Middle English coverchef et al., from Old French couvrechief, from couvrir (“to cover”) + chief (“head”). Compare curfew.
Pronunciation
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kerchief (plural kerchiefs or kerchieves)
- (dated) A piece of cloth used to cover the head; a bandana.
1823, Clement Clark Moore, The Night Before Christmas:And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap, / Had just settled down for a long winter's nap […]
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Translations
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piece of cloth
- Arabic: غِفَارَة f (ḡifāra), لِفَاع m (lifāʕ)
- Armenian: թաշկինակ (hy) (tʻaškinak), գլխաշոր (hy) (glxašor)
- Bashkir: яулыҡ (yawlıq)
- Belarusian: ху́стка f (xústka)
- Bulgarian: забрадка (bg) f (zabradka)
- Catalan: mocador (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 頭巾/头巾 (zh) (tóujīn)
- Chuvash: тутӑр (tut̬ăr)
- Czech: šátek (cs) m
- Dutch: hoofddoek (nl), sluier (nl)
- Finnish: huivi (fi)
- French: foulard (fr) m, fichu (fr) m
- Galician: pano da cabeza f, pano (gl) m
- Georgian: თავსაფარი (ka) (tavsapari), თავშალი (tavšali), ხილაბანდი (xilabandi)
- German: Kopftuch (de) n
- Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌰𐌻𐌹 n (aurali)
- Hausa: mayani
- Hungarian: kendő (hu)
- Irish: bréidín m, brat cinn m, cafarr m, ciarsúr (ga) m
- Italian: bandana (it) f, fascia (it) f
- Japanese: 頭巾 (ja) (ずきん, zukin)
- Korean: 두건 (ko) (dugeon)
- Macedonian: ма́рама f (márama)
- Ojibwe: moshwe
- Persian: روسری (fa) (rusari), رویمال (ruymâl), لچک (fa) (lačak)
- Polish: chustka (pl) f
- Portuguese: lenço (pt) m, bandana f
- Romanian: batic (ro) n, basma (ro) f
- Russian: плато́к (ru) m (platók), плато́чек (ru) m (platóček), косы́нка (ru) f (kosýnka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: марама f
- Roman: marama (sh) f
- Spanish: toca (es) f
- Swedish: sjalett (sv) c, huvudduk (sv) c
- Tajik: рӯймол (rüymol), рӯмол (rümol)
- Tatar: яулык (tt) (yawlıq)
- Turkish: baş örtüsü (tr)
- Ukrainian: ху́стка f (xústka)
- Welsh: penllïain m
- Yiddish: טיכל n (tikhl), פֿאַטשיילע f (fatsheyle)
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kerchief (third-person singular simple present kerchiefs, present participle kerchiefing, simple past and past participle kerchiefed)
- (dated, transitive) To cover with a kerchief.
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