шаль

Borrowed from Persian شال (šâl).

• IPA^(key): [ʂalʲ]

шаль • (šalʹ) f inan (genitive ша́ли, nominative plural ша́ли, genitive plural ша́лей)

1. shawl (a square piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders)
   • 1869, Иван Гончаров, “Часть I. Глава IX”, in Обрыв; English translation from Stephen Pearl, transl., Malinovka Heights, Alma Classics, 2020:

     Наки́нув шаль и заду́мавшись, она́ походи́ла на оди́н ста́рый же́нский портре́т, бы́вший в ста́ром до́ме, в галере́е пре́дков.

     Nakínuv šalʹ i zadúmavšisʹ, oná poxodíla na odín stáryj žénskij portrét, bývšij v stárom dóme, v galeréje prédkov.

     Throwing a shawl around her shoulders, and still deep in thought, she went over to look at an old portrait of a woman which had been brought from the old house where it had been hung in a gallery of ancestors.

• → Kazakh: шәлі (şälı)

• IPA^(key): [ʃalʲ]

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Borrowed from Polish szal, from French châle, from Persian شال (šâl), whence also English shawl.^[1]

шаль • (šalʹ) f inan (genitive ша́лі, nominative plural ша́лі, genitive plural ша́лей, diminutive ша́лька)

1. shawl (a square piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders)

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шаль • (šalʹ) f inan (genitive ша́лі, nominative plural ша́лі, genitive plural ша́лей)

1. (dialectal) synonym of дрібни́ця f (dribnýcja, “trifle, small matter”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

шаль • (šalʹ)

1. genitive plural of ша́ля f (šálja)

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1980), “шаль”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 11 (Х – Ь), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 400
• “шаль”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)

• A. Rysin, V. Starko, Yu. Marchenko, O. Telemko, et al. (compilers, 2007–2022), “шаль”, in Russian-Ukrainian Dictionaries
• A. Rysin, V. Starko, et al. (compilers, 2011–2020), “шаль”, in English–Ukrainian Dictionaries
• “шаль”, in Kyiv Dictionary (in English)
• “шаль”, in Словник.ua [Slovnyk.ua] (in Ukrainian)