köken: Inherited from Byzantine Greek χαρτί (khartí) / χαρτίν (chartín), from Koine Greek χαρτίον (khartíon), diminutive of the Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs).
napkin, table napkin, serviette (a piece of cloth made of linen or damask used at the table for wiping the mouth and hands for cleanliness while eating) · tablecloth (a cloth used to cover and protect a table)
cloth to wipe hands or mouth, towel, napkin · tablecloth
çekim: çoğul mantēlia · tamlayan mantēlis
köken: A decomposition into manus (“hand”) and tergō (“to wipe, to rub”) would be semantically likely (compare Late Latin manutergium), but the morphological processes involved are murky, taking into account the variants, their relationship of which is not without doubts, and their obscuration by scribal error. In late and vulgar Latin it was confounded with and driven away by diminutive forms of the…