quilt

English

Etymology

From Middle English quilte, quylte, from Anglo-Norman quilte and Old French coilte, cuilte (compare French couette), from Latin culcita. Doublet of quoit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwɪlt/, [kʰw̥ɪlt]

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• Rhymes: -ɪlt

Noun

quilt (plural quilts)

1. A bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together, with insulation between, often having a decorative design.

   My grandmother is going to sew a quilt.

2. A roll of material with sound-absorbing properties, used in soundproofing.
3. A quilted skirt worn by women.

Derived terms

• crazy quilt
• patchwork quilt

Translations

bed covering

• Assamese: লেপ (lep), কেঁথা (kẽtha)
• Bulgarian: кувертюра (bg) f (kuvertjura)
• Catalan: edredó m
• Cherokee: ᏰᎦᏟ (yegatli), ᎠᏰᎧᎵ (ayekali)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 被 (zh) (pei5)

  Mandarin: 被子 (zh) (bèizi), 衾 (zh) (qīn) (literary)

  Min Nan: 被仔 (phē-á)

• Danish: vattæppe n
• Dutch: quilt (nl) c
• Esperanto: litkovrilo
• Finnish: täkki (fi)
• French: édredon (fr) m, couette (fr) f, courtepointe (fr) f (archaic)
• Galician: colcha f, edredón m
• Georgian: დალიანდაგებული საბანი (daliandagebuli sabani), საბანი (sabani)
• German: Quilt m
• Greek: πάπλωμα (el) n (páploma)
• Hungarian: paplan (hu)
• Italian: trapunta (it) f
• Japanese: 掛け布団 (ja) (かけぶとん, kakebuton), 衾 (ja) (ふすま, fusuma) (archaic)
• Kazakh: құрақ көрпе (quraq körpe)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can

• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: لێفە‎ (ku) (lêfe)

  Northern Kurdish: lihêf (ku), yurẍan (ku)

• Latin: strātum n
• Latvian: vatēta sega
• Maori: kuira
• Maranao: dabar
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: golchóón
• Persian: لحاف‎ (fa) (lahâf), دواج‎ (fa) (davâj)
• Polish: kołdra (pl) f
• Portuguese: colcha (pt) f, edredom (pt) m
• Russian: лоску́тное одея́ло n (loskútnoje odejálo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јорган m, поплун m

  Roman: jorgan (sh) m, poplun (sh) m

• Spanish: colcha (es) f, edredón (es) m
• Taos: kwíltoną
• Telugu: బొంత (te) (bonta)
• Thai: ผ้านวม (th) (pâa-nuuam)
• Turkish: yorgan (tr)
• Uzbek: koʻrpa (uz)

Verb

quilt (third-person singular simple present quilts, present participle quilting, simple past and past participle quilted)

1. To construct a quilt.
2. To construct something, such as clothing, using the same technique.
   • 1648, Robert Herrick, “Corinna’s Going a Maying”, in Hesperides, or The VVorks both Humane & Divine, London: Printed for John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, […], OCLC 951078816; republished in The Poetical Works of Robert Herrick, London: William Pickering, […], 1825, OCLC 779240046, pages 91–92:

     Get up, get up for shame, the blooming morne / Upon her wings presents the god unshorne. / See how Aurora throwes her faire / Fresh-quilted colours through the aire; / Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see / The dew bespangling herbe and tree.

3. (UK, slang, obsolete) To beat or thrash.
   • 1884, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker (page 113)

     I am glad, said Mr. Slick, that cussed critter, that schoolmaster, hasn't yet woke up. I'm most afeerd if he had aturned out afore we started, I should have quilted him, for that talk of his last night sticks in my crop considerable hard.

Derived terms

• crazy quilt
• memory quilt
• quilter
• quilting
• quilting bee
• quilting needle
• t-shirt quilt

 

Translations

to construct a quilt

• Finnish: topata (fi)
• French: matelasser (fr), ouater (fr)

• Georgian: საბნის დალიანდაგება (sabnis daliandageba)
• Italian: imbottire (it), trapuntare
• Spanish: acolchar (es)

to construct something else with quilting technique

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 絎 (zh), 绗 (zh) (hèng)

• Finnish: topata (fi)
• Hungarian: steppel (hu), tűzdel
• Spanish: acolchar (es)

See also

• batting
• pinking shears
• sew
• cotton

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

quilt m (definite singular quilten, indefinite plural quiltar, definite plural quiltane)

1. Alternative spelling of kvilt