towel

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, such as a person after a bath.

Verb

1. (transitive) To hit with a towel.
2. (transitive) To dry by using a towel.
3. (transitive) To block up (a door, etc.) with a towel, to conceal the fumes of a recreational drug.
4. (UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To beat with a stick, or "oaken towel".

Concepts

serviette

essuie-main

essuie-mains

essuie mains

touaille

torchon

serviette de toilette

essuyer

Synonymes

napkin

bath towel

cloth

wipe

face towel

piece of cloth

rag

brush

wiper

handkerchief

rags

rake

rub out

score out

scratch

serviette

sheet

strike

sweep

terry cloth

washcloth

whisk

wipe off

wipe out

wipe up

hand towel

pocket-handkerchief

delete

wash cloth

besom

broom

🧹

dry

duster

efface

erase

excise

expunge

parch

Traductions

toalla

Handtuch

asciugamano

handdoek

toalha

tovallola

πετσέτα

منشفة

havlu

peşkir

mantele

asciugatoio

خاولی

tovaglia

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈtaʊ(ə)l/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: towayle

Appartenant à français: touaille

Appartenant à ancien haut allemand: dwahila

Appartenant à allemand: Zwehle

Appartenant à néerlandais: dwaal

Appartenant à bas-allemand: Dweel

Appartenant à ancien anglais: þwǣle

Appartenant à ancien anglais: þwēan

In summary

From Middle English towayle, towel, towail, towaille, from Old French toaille (“towel”) (modern French touaille), Medieval Latin toallia, from Frankish *þwahilu (“cloth”), from Proto-Germanic *þwahaną (“to wash”). Cognate with Old High German dwahila (“towel”) (modern dialectal German Zwehle), Dutch dwaal (“towel”), dweil (“mop”), Low German Dweel (“towel”), Old English þwǣle (“band; ribbon; fillet”), Old English þwēan (“to wash”).