köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese lenço, from Latin linteum (“linen cloth”), from linteus, ultimately a probable borrowing from an unidentifiable source.
köken: Borrowed from English shawl, in turn from Hindustani शाल, شال (śāl), from Persian شال (šâl). The Persian word is itself loaned from an Indo-Aryan language; see its entry for more.
köken: From Proto-Slavic *nametъka. Related to мі́тити (mítyty). Cognate with Czech námětka, Russian наме́тка (namétka), Belarusian намётка (namjótka), Polish namiotka, Bulgarian наме́тка (namétka).
headscarf, scarf (piece of cloth worn over the head) · neckerchief, necker (type of neckwear, consisting of a rolled piece of cloth and often a woggle)
çekim: çoğul huivit · tamlayan huivin
eş: Standard Finnish, Kuusjoki, Pertteli, Sauvo, liina, Eura
köken: Borrowed from dialectal Swedish hviv (“women's headwear, bride's veil”) or from earlier Old Swedish hviver.
A covering for the head of women, which fell down over the shoulders
çekim: çoğul calauticae · tamlayan calauticae
köken: A borrowing attested from Afranius; the same as Classical Syriac ܟܲܠܵܘܵܐ (kalāwā), ܟܲܠܘܵܐ (kalwā, “tiara”) from Akkadian 𒆪𒇻𒇻 (/kulūlu/, “a kind of turban or headband”) which Brockelmann glosses in his Syriac-Latin lexicon as calautica; probably in Latin via Demotic Egyptian, Coptic ⲕⲗⲁϥⲧ (klaft). Also passed into Arabic كَلَّوْتَة (kallawta), كَلَّفْتَة (kallafta), كَلَّفْتَاة (kallaftāh), a…