пещемал
Bulgarian
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)
- (colloquial) bath towel
- Synonym: пешки́р (peškír)
- (colloquial, regional) beach towel
- (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
- (archaic, dialectal) peshtemal, a type of narrow rectangular cotton towel used in Turkish baths
Declension
| 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