shawl

English

Etymology

From Persian شال (šâl); see there for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɔːl/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːl

Noun

shawl (plural shawls)

1. A square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders, typically by women. [from 1662]

   She wears her shawl when it's cold outside.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:

     Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, […] , and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.

   • 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 26:

     Jessamy turned. Her uplifted candle showed a dark handsome young women in a black dress. She wore a wide shawl over her head which hung down on either side, only partially hiding a starched, white apron..

2. A fold of wrinkled flesh under the lips and neck of a bloodhound, used in scenting.

Derived terms

• beshawled

Translations

a square piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders

• Arabic: شَال m (šāl)
• Azerbaijani: şal (az)
• Bashkir: яулыҡ (yawlıq); (thick, woolen) шәл (şəl)
• Bengali: শাল (śal)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 圍巾／围巾 (zh) (wéijīn), 围巾 (zh) (wéijīn)

• Czech: šál (cs) f
• Danish: sjal (da) n
• Dutch: sjaal (nl) m
• Esperanto: ŝalo
• Estonian: rätik
• Faroese: sjál n, sjal n, herðaturriklæði n
• Finnish: šaali (fi), hartiahuivi
• French: châle (fr) m
• Galician: mantón m, chal m
• German: Schal (de) m
• Hebrew: של (he) m (shal)
• Hindi: शाल (hi) f (śāl)
• Hungarian: kendő (hu), vállkendő (hu), nagykendő (hu), sál (hu)
• Icelandic: sjal (is) n, þríhyrna f, herðaklútur m
• Ido: shalo (io)
• Indonesian: syal (id)
• Italian: scialle (it) m
• Japanese: ショール (shōru), (archaic) 肩巾 (ひれ, hire)
• Karakalpak: oramal
• Korean: 숄 (syol)
• Latvian: šalle f
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• Lithuanian: skara f
• Malay: sebai, syal
• Maori: tarapouahi, hōro
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sjal n

  Nynorsk: sjal n

• Ojibwe: moshwe
• Persian: شال (fa) (šâl)
• Polish: szal (pl) m
• Portuguese: xale (pt) m, xaile (pt) m
• Romanian: șal (ro) m
• Russian: шаль (ru) f (šalʹ)
• Rwanda-Rundi:

  Kinyarwanda: fulari

• Sanskrit: शाटी (sa) (śāṭī)
• Scottish Gaelic: stoc m
• Serbo-Croatian: podbradača (sh) f, podbradka f
• Slovene: šál (sl) m
• Spanish: chal (es) m, pañolón (es)
• Swahili: kikoi (sw)
• Swedish: sjal (sv) c
• Turkish: şal (tr)
• Ukrainian: хуста f (xusta) (dated), шаль (šalʹ)
• Urdu: شال f (śāl)
• Uzbek: shol (uz)
• Welsh: siôl f

Verb

shawl (third-person singular simple present shawls, present participle shawling, simple past and past participle shawled)

1. (transitive) To wrap in a shawl.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Thackeray to this entry?)

Anagrams

• Walsh