footwrap

English

a Soviet soldier drying his footwraps, Y.G. Gorelov, "Do the Russians Want War?", 1962

Etymology

From foot +‎ wrap.

Noun

footwrap (plural footwraps)

1. A strip of cloth worn around the feet before the wide availability of socks or to avoid chafing, absorb sweat and improve the foothold.

Synonyms

• footcloth
• bandages pl
• rags pl
• portyanka

Translations

a strip of cloth worn around the feet

• Azerbaijani: patava, dolaq
• Belarusian: ану́ча f (anúča)
• Bulgarian: парте́нка (bg) f (parténka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 包腳布 / 包脚布 (zh) (bāojiǎobù)

• Czech: onuce (cs) f, ovinka f, zavinovačka f
• Finnish: jalkarätti (fi)
• French: chaussette russe (fr) f (Russian sock)
• German: Fußlappen (de) m
• Ingrian: jalkarätti
• Japanese: ポルチャンキ (poruchanki) (from Russian plural form)
• Kazakh: шұлғау (şūlğau)
• Korean: 발싸개 (ko) (balssagae)
• Ottoman Turkish: طولاق (dolak)
• Polish: onuca (pl) f
• Russian: портя́нка (ru) f (portjánka), ону́ча (ru) f (onúča)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: обојак m

  Roman: obojak (sh) m

• Slovak: onuca f, ovinka f, ovinovačka f
• Ukrainian: ону́ча f (onúča)
• Vietnamese: vải bọc chân, xà cạp (vi)