bath towel

English

Alternative forms

• bath-towel, bathtowel

Pronunciation

• enPR: băth′ tou′əl
• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌbæθ ˈtaʊ̯.əl/; (also Received Pronunciation) /ˌbaθ ˈtaʊ̯.əl/
• (Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌbæθ ˈtæɔ̯.əl/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌbɛθ ˈtæʊ̯.əl/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˌbaθ ˈtʌʊ̯.əl/, /ˌbaθ ˈtʌʊ̯.ʌl/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˌba(ː)t̪ ˈʈəw.el/, /ˌba(ː)t̪ ˈʈɑw.el/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: bath tow‧el

Noun

bath towel (plural bath towels)

2. A large towel used to dry the body after bathing.

   Hyponym: bath sheet

Translations

towel for drying the body

• Albanian: peshqir (sq) m (archaic, colloquial) havlli (sq) f
• Aromanian: prusopi f
• Bulgarian: пешки́р (bg) m (peškír), (colloquial) пещема́л m (peštemál)
• Catalan: tovallola de bany f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 沖涼巾 / 冲凉巾

  Mandarin: 浴巾 (zh) (yùjīn)

  Teochew: 浴布 (êg⁸ bou³)

• Czech: ručník (cs) m, osuška (cs) f
• Danish: badehåndklæde n
• Dutch: badhanddoek (nl) m
• Esperanto: bantuko
• Estonian: vannilina
• Finnish: kylpypyyhe (fi)
• French: serviette de bain (fr) f
• German: Badetuch (de) n
• Hunsrik: Handduch n
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: tuáille folctha m
• Italian: asciugamano da bagno m
• Japanese: バスタオル (ja) (basutaoru)
• Korean: 목욕 수건 (mogyok sugeon), 목욕타올 (mogyoktaol)
• Luxembourgish: ^{(please verify)} Handduch n
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} пешкир m (peškir)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: badehåndkle n

  Nynorsk: badehandkle n

• Polish: prześcieradło kąpielowe (pl) n, (Middle Polish) czecheł (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: toalha de banho f, lençol de banho m
• Romanian: prosop (ro) n
• Russian: ба́нное полоте́нце n (bánnoje poloténce)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} пѐшкӣр m inan

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} pèškīr (sh) m inan

• Spanish: toalla de baño f
• Slovak: ručník (sk) m, osuška (sk) f
• Slovene: kopálna brisáča f
• Swedish: badhandduk (sv) c, badlakan (sv) n
• Tamil: துண்டு (ta) (tuṇṭu)
• Thai: ผ้าเช็ดตัว (th) (pâa-chét-dtuua)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: lliain mawr m

See also

• beach towel

Further reading

• “bath towel”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.