пещемал

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Bulgarian

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пещемал (folk costume component)

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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

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

Noun

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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

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References

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  • 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