necktie

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Necktie

Etymology

From neck +‎ tie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛk.taɪ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛktaɪ

Noun

necktie (plural neckties)

1. A strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front. See also bowtie.
   • 1896, A. E. Housman, “Terence, this is stupid stuff”, in A Shropshire Lad:

     Oh I have been to Ludlow fair / And left my necktie God knows where / And carried half way home, or near, / Pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.

Derived terms

• Colombian necktie
• Jeff Davis's necktie
• necktie paradox
• necktie party
• necktie-party
• necktie social
• Sherman necktie
• Sherman's necktie
• Sicilian necktie

 

Translations

strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front

• Afrikaans: das (af), strop
• Albanian: kravatë (sq) f, kollare (sq) f
• Amharic: ክራባት (kərabat)
• Arabic: رِبَاط‎ (ar) m (ribāṭ), رَبْطَة الْعُنُق‎ f (rabṭat al-ʕunuq), رِبَاط الْعُنُق‎ m (ribāṭ al-ʕunuq), كَرَافَة‎ f (karāfa), كَرَافَتَة‎ f (karāfata)

  Egyptian Arabic: جرفتّه‎ f (garafatta)

  Gulf Arabic: كرفتة‎ f (karafitta)

  Hijazi Arabic: كرفتة‎ f (karafitta), كرڤتة‎ f (karavitta)

• Aragonese: corvata f
• Armenian: փողկապ (hy) (pʿoġkap)
• Asturian: corbata
• Azerbaijani:

  Roman: qalstuk (az), boyunbağı (az), kravat (az) (South Azerbaijani)

  Abjad: بويون باغى‎ (bōyūn-bāghi), کالوستوک‎ (kalûstuk), قراوات‎‎ (kıravat) (South Azerbaijani)

• Basque: korbata
• Belarusian: га́льштук (be) m (hálʹštuk), га́лстук m (hálstuk)
• Bengali: নেকটাই (nekṭai)
• Breton: kravatenn (br)
• Bulgarian: вратовръ́зка (bg) f (vratovrǎ́zka)
• Burmese: လည်စည်း (my) (lanycany:)
• Catalan: corbata (ca) f
• Cebuano: korbata
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 領帶／领带 (leng⁵ daai^3-2), 呔 (taai¹)

  Mandarin: 領帶／领带 (zh) (lǐngdài)

• Czech: vázanka (cs) f, kravata (cs) f
• Danish: slips (da) n
• Dutch: stropdas (nl) f, das (nl) f
• Esperanto: kravato
• Estonian: lips (et)
• Faroese: slips n
• Finnish: solmio (fi), kravatti (fi)
• French: cravate (fr) f
• Galician: gravata (gl) f
• Georgian: ჰალსტუხი (ka) (halsṭuxi), ყლინჯი (q̇linǯi)
• German: Krawatte (de) f, Schlips (de) m
• Greek: γραβάτα (el) f (graváta), λαιμοδέτης (el) m (laimodétis)
• Greenlandic: qilernerusaq
• Gujarati: નેકટાઈ f (nekṭāī)
• Haitian Creole: cravant
• Hebrew: עֲנִיבָה‎ (he) f (anivá)
• Hindi: नेकटाई f (nekṭāī), टाई (hi) f (ṭāī)
• Hungarian: nyakkendő (hu)
• Hunsrik: Kravatt f
• Icelandic: bindi n, slifsi n
• Ido: kravato (io)
• Indonesian: dasi (id)
• Irish: carbhat
• Italian: cravatta (it) f
• Japanese: ネクタイ (ja) (nekutai)
• Karelian: galstukku
• Kazakh: галстук (galstuk)
• Khmer: ក្រាវាត់ (kraavat), ក្រវាត់ក (km) (krɑvat kɑɑ), ក្រវាត់ (km) (krɑvat)
• Korean: 넥타이 (ko) (nektai), 갈쓰뚝 (galsseuttuk) (Koryo-mar)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بۆینباغ‎ (boyinbaẍ)

  Northern Kurdish: boyinbax (ku), kravat (ku), rîbat (ku), stubend (ku)

• Kyrgyz: галстук (ky) (galstuk)
• Lao: ກາລະວັດ (lo) (kā la wat)
• Latin: fōcāle n, (New) fascia f
• Latvian: kaklasaite f
• Lingala: kalaváti, nkɛ́kɛ́lɛ́
• Lithuanian: kaklaraištis m
• Luxembourgish: Krawatt (lb)
• Macedonian: вратоврска f (vratovrska), крава́та f (kraváta)
• Malay: tai (ms), tali leher
• Maltese: ingravata f
• Maori: neketai
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: зангиа (mn) (zangia), галстук (mn) (galstuk) (China)

  Mongolian: ᠵᠠᠩᠭᠢᠶ᠎ᠠ (ǰaŋgiy-a), ᠭᠠᠯᠰᠲ᠋ᠤᠺ (ɣalstuk)

• Nahuatl: quechquentli
• Navajo: zéédéeláhí, zéénáztʼiʼí, zéédéetʼiʼí, zénáztʼiʼí
• Norman: cravate f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: slips n

  Nynorsk: slips n

• Ottoman Turkish: بویون باغی‎ (bôyûn bâğı), بیون باغی‎ (boyûn bâğı)
• Pashto: نکټايي‎ (ps) f (nekṭāyí), نېکټائي‎ f (nekṭāyí)
• Persian: کراوات‎ (fa) (kerâvât)
• Plautdietsch: Schlips m
• Polish: krawat (pl) m
• Portuguese: gravata (pt) f
• Romanian: cravată (ro) f
• Russian: га́лстук (ru) m (gálstuk)
• Scottish Gaelic: taidh f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: крава̀та f

  Roman: kravàta (sh) f

• Sinhalese: ටයි එක (ṭayi eka)
• Slovak: viazanka f, kravata f
• Slovene: kravata (sl) f
• Somali: garawati
• Spanish: corbata (es) f
• Sundanese: dasi
• Swahili: tai (sw)
• Swedish: slips (sv) c
• Tagalog: kurbata
• Tajik: галстук (galstuk)
• Thai: เนคไท (nék-tái), ไท (th) (tai)
• Tigrinya: ክራባታ (kərabata)
• Turkish: kravat (tr), boyunbağı (tr)
• Turkmen: galstuk
• Ukrainian: крава́тка (uk) f (kravátka), га́лстук (uk) m (hálstuk)
• Urdu: نکٹائی‎ f (nekṭā'ī), ٹائی‎ (ṭā'ī)
• Uyghur: گالىستۇك‎ (galistuk)
• Uzbek: boʻyinbogʻ (uz), galstuk (uz)
• Venetian: croata (vec)
• Vietnamese: cà vạt (vi)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Waray-Waray: kurbata
• Welsh: tei (cy) m or f
• Yiddish: קראַוואַט‎ m (kravat), שניפּס‎ m (shnips)

See also

• necktie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia