kerchief

English

Etymology

Middle English, from Old French couvrechief, from couvrir (“to cover”) + chief (“head”).

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɝ.tʃɪf/, /ˈkɝ.tʃif/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɜː.tʃɪf/, /ˈkɜː.tʃiːf/
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Noun

kerchief (plural kerchiefs or kerchieves)

(dated) A piece of cloth used to cover the head; a bandana.
- 1823, Clement Clark Moore, The Night Before Christmas
  And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap, / Had just settled down for a long winter's nap […]

Derived terms

Translations

piece of cloth

Arabic: غِفَارَة‎‎ f (ḡifāra), لِفَاع‎‎ m (lifāʿ)
Armenian: թաշկինակ (hy) (tʿaškinak), գլխաշոր (hy) (glxašor)
Bashkir: яулыҡ (yawlïq)
Belarusian: ху́стка f (xústka)
Bulgarian: ша́лче (bg) n (šálče)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 頭巾 (zh), 头巾 (zh) (tóujīn)
Chuvash: тутӑр (tutăr)
Czech: šátek (cs) m
Dutch: hoofddoek (nl), sluier (nl)
Finnish: huivi (fi)
French: foulard (fr) m, fichu (fr) m
Georgian: თავსაფარი (tavsapari)
German: Kopftuch (de) m
Hausa: mayani
Hungarian: kendő (hu)

Irish: bréidín m, brat cinn m, cafarr m, ciarsúr (ga) m
Japanese: 頭巾 (ずきん, zukin)
Korean: 두건 (ko) (dugeon)
Persian: روسری‎‎ (fa) (rusari)
Polish: chustka (pl) f
Portuguese: lenço (pt) m, bandana f
Russian: плато́к (ru) m (platók), плато́чек (ru) m (platóček), косы́нка (ru) f (kosýnka)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: марама f

Roman: marama (sh) f
Tajik: рӯймол (rüymol), рӯмол (rümol)
Tatar: яулык (tt) (yaulıq)
Turkish: baş örtüsü (tr)
Ukrainian: ху́стка f (xústka)
Yiddish: טיכל‎‎ n (tikhl)

Verb

kerchief (third-person singular simple present kerchiefs, present participle kerchiefing, simple past and past participle kerchiefed)

(dated, transitive) To cover with a kerchief.

Anagrams

heckfire

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