shawl

English

Etymology

From Hindi शाल (śāl) and Urdu شال (śāl), from Persian شال (šâl).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʃɔːl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ʃɔl/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ʃɑl/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [ʃɒːɫ]

• Audio (US, cot–caught merger):

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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.

   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 60:

     Just then Norbourne entered the chamber; and, fancying from her attitude that his wife was asleep, he approached softly, and drew a large shawl around her.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     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, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →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
• India shawl
• prayer shawl
• praying shawl
• shawl goat
• shawl material
• shawl pattern
• shawl strap
• shawl waistcoat

 

Descendants

• → German: Schal
• → Irish: seál

Translations

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

• Afrikaans: sjaal
• Arabic: شَال m (šāl)
• Armenian: շալ (hy) (šal), ուսնոց (hy) (usnocʻ)
• Azerbaijani: şal (az)
• Bashkir: яулыҡ (yawlıq); (thick, woolen) шәл (şəl)
• Belarusian: ху́стка f (xústka), шаль m (šalʹ)
• Bengali: শাল (bn) (śal)
• Bulgarian: шал (bg) m (šal)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 圍巾／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
• Greek: σάλι (el) n (sáli)

  Ancient: ἐπίβλημα n (epíblēma)

• Hebrew: של (he) m (shal)
• Hindi: शाल (hi) f (śāl)
• Hungarian: kendő (hu), vállkendő (hu), nagykendő (hu), sál (hu), keszkenő (hu) (archaic)
• Icelandic: sjal (is) n, þríhyrna f, herðaklútur m
• Ido: shalo (io)
• Indonesian: syal (id)
• Irish: seál m
• Italian: scialle (it) m
• Japanese: ショール (ja) (shōru), (archaic) 肩巾 (ひれ, hire)
• Karakalpak: oramal
• Kazakh: бөкебай (bökebai), шәлі (şälı)
• Korean: 숄 (syol)
• Latvian: šalle f
• Lithuanian: skara f
• Macedonian: шал m (šal)
• Malay: sebai, syal
• Maltese: xalla f, xall m
• Maori: tarapouahi, hōro
• Marathi: शाल f (śāl)
• 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) n
• Russian: плато́к (ru) m (platók), шаль (ru) f (šalʹ)
• Rwanda-Rundi:

  Kinyarwanda: fulari

• Sanskrit: शाटी (sa) (śāṭī)
• Scottish Gaelic: stoc m
• Serbo-Croatian: podbradača (sh) f, podbradka f
• Slovak: šál f
• Slovene: šál (sl) m
• Spanish: chal (es) m, pañolón (es)
• Swahili: kikoi (sw)
• Swedish: sjal (sv) c
• Tatar: яулык (tt) (yawlıq), шәл (tt) (şäl)
• Turkish: şal (tr)
• Ukrainian: ху́стка f (xústka), шаль f (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.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     Rebecca was shawling her in an upper apartment , where these two friends had an opportunity for a little of that secret talking and conspiring which forms the delight of female life

Anagrams

• Walsh

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English schalen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɔːɫ/

Verb

shawl

1. to shell
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Shawl a baanès.

     Shell the beans.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 67