пещемал

Bulgarian

пещемал (folk costume component)

Alternative forms

• пещама́л (peštamál), пещима́л (peštimál), пищима́л (pištimál), пещема́р (peštemár), пущима́л (puštimál), пъщъма́л (pǎštǎmál) — dialectal

Etymology

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 пештѐма̄љ／peštèmālj.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

пещема́л • (peštemál) m (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

Declension of пещема́л

	singular	plural
indefinite	пещема́л peštemál	пещема́ли peštemáli
definite (subject form)	пещема́лът peštemálǎt	пещема́лите peštemálite
definite (object form)	пещема́ла peštemála
count form	—	пещема́ла peštemála

References

• “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), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 222
• “пищимал”, in BGJargon.com (in Bulgarian), 2007