پشتمال
Ottoman Turkish
پشتمال
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian پشتمال (poštmal), which is a compound of پشت (pošt, “back, rear of the body”) + مال (mâl, “cleaning”).
Noun
پشتمال • (peştamal)
- peshtemal, a large cotton towel used in Turkish baths as a waistcloth
Derived terms
- پشتمالجی (peştamalcı, “dealer or keeper of peshtemals”)
Descendants
- Turkish: peştamal
- → English: peshtemal
- → Armenian: փեշտիմալ (pʿeštimal), փեշտըմալ (pʿeštəmal)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “peştamal”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3837
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “پشتمال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 322
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Praecinctorium”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1332
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “پشتمال”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 829
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “peştamal”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “پشتمال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 449