towel
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Noun (1)towels
- a rectangular piece of absorbent cloth (or paper) for drying or wipingType of piece of cloth, piece of materialKinds bath towel, roller towel, hand towel, beach towel, paper towel, dishtowel
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Translations
Noun cloth used for wiping
- Spanish
- toalla
- French
- serviette
- German
- Handtuch
- Italian
- asciugamano
- Portuguese
- toalha
- Turkish
- havlu
- Russian
- полоте́нце poloténce
- Arabic
- مِنْشَفَة minšafa
- Chinese
- 毛巾 máojīn
- Japanese
- タオル taoru
33 more languages
- Dutch
- handdoek
- Polish
- ręcznik
- Swedish
- handduk
- Greek
- πετσέτα petséta
- Korean
- 수건 sugeon
- Indonesian
- handuk
- Vietnamese
- khăn tắm
- Hungarian
- törülköző
- Portuguese (PT)
- toalha
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 毛巾 máojīn
- Albanian
- peshqir
- Breton
- serviedenn
- Catalan
- tovallola
- Czech
- ručník
- Danish
- håndklæde
- Esperanto
- mantuko
- Estonian
- rätik
- Finnish
- pyyhe
- Georgian
- პირსახოცი ṗirsaxoci
- Hebrew
- מַגֶּבֶת magévet
- Icelandic
- handklæði
- Kurdish
- pêşgîr
- Latvian
- dvielis
- Lithuanian
- rankšluostis
- Norwegian
- håndkle
- Romanian
- prosop
- Scottish Gaelic
- tubhailt
- Serbo-Croatian
- peškir
- Slovak
- uterák
- Slovenian
- brisača
- Swahili
- taulo
- Welsh
- tywel
- Yiddish
- האַנטעך hantekh
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. towaille, towail, F. touaille, LL. toacula, of Teutonic origin; cf. OHG. dwahila, swahilla, G. zwehle, fr. OHG. dwahan to wash; akin to D. dwaal a towel, AS. þweán to wash, OS. thwahan, Icel. þvā, Sw. två, Dan. toe, Goth. þwahan. Cf. Doily.
A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as the person after a bath.
Towel gourd Botany, the fruit of the cucurbitaceous plant Luffa Aegyptiaca; also, the plant itself. The fruit is very fibrous, and, when separated from its rind and seeds, is used as a sponge or towel. Called also Egyptian bath sponge, and dishcloth.
To beat with a stick. dialect (England)
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54