floorcloth

English

Alternative forms

• floor-cloth

Etymology

floor +‎ cloth

Noun

floorcloth (plural floorcloths)

1. A cloth, normally of flannel, used for cleaning floors.
2. Material used in place of carpeting for covering floors, such as linoleum or oilcloth.

Translations

cloth for cleaning floors

• Armenian: պոլի շոր (poli šor) (colloquial, non-standard)
• Bulgarian: подочистачка f (podočistačka)
• Chechen: горгам (gorgam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地板布 (dìbǎn bù)

• Dutch: dweil (nl) m
• Finnish: lattiarätti (fi), rätti (fi)
• French: serpillière (fr) f, serpillère (fr) f, panosse (fr) f (Switzerland, Aosta Valley, Savoie, eastern France)
• German: Bodentuch n
• Japanese: (床)雑巾 (ja) (ぞうきん, zōkin)
• Khakas: ӌурух (curux)
• Khvarshi: горгом (gorgom)
• Ladin: berdon da fonz m
• Portuguese: pano de chão m
• Russian: полова́я тря́пка f (polovája trjápka)
• Spanish: aljofifa f (Southern Spain), bayeta f (Spain standard usage), coleto m (Venezuela), frazada de piso f (Cuba), jerga f (Mexico), paño rejilla m (Argentina), rodilla f (Northern Spain), trapero m (Chile), trapo de piso m (Argentina, Uruguay), trapo rejilla m (Argentina, Uruguay)
• Swedish: skurtrasa (sv) c
• Tsez: ки́ли (kíli)