پشتمال

Borrowed from Persian پشتمال‎ (poštmâl), which is a compound of پشت‎ (pošt, “back, rear of the body”) + مال‎ (mâl, “cleaning”).

پشتمال • (peştamal)

1. peshtemal, a large cotton towel used in Turkish baths as a waistcloth

• پشتمالجی‎ (peştamalcı, “dealer or keeper of peshtemals”)

• Turkish: peştamal
  • → English: peshtemal
• → Armenian: փեշտիմալ (pʿeštimal), փեշտըմալ (pʿeštəmal)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “peştamal”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3837
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “پشتمال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 322
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Praecinctorium”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1332
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “پشتمال”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 829
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “peştamal”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “پشتمال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 449