пещемал

• пещама́л (peštamál), пещима́л (peštimál), пищима́л (pištimál), пещема́р (peštemár), пущима́л (puštimál), пъщъма́л (pǎštǎmál) — dialectal

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پشتمال (peştemal, peştamal, peştimal), پیشتمال (piştemal), from Persian پشتمال (poštmâl), from پشت (pošt, “back, rear of the body”) +‎ مال (mâl, “cleaning”). Also borrowed in English as peshtemal. Other cognates include Albanian peshtamall, Aromanian pishtamal and Serbo-Croatian пештѐма̄љ／peštèmālj.

• IPA^(key): [pɛʃtɛˈmaɫ] (standard)
• IPA^(key): [piʃtiˈmaɫ] (common, non-standard)
• Hyphenation^(key): пе‧ще‧мал

пещема́л • (peštemál) m (diminutive пещема́лче)

1. (colloquial) bath towel

   Synonym: пешки́р (peškír)

2. (colloquial, regional) beach towel
3. (dialectal) the back apron of the two-apron Bulgarian female folk costume - it is tied at the front and covers the shirt around the waist
4. (archaic, dialectal) peshtemal, a type of narrow rectangular cotton towel used in Turkish baths

• “пещемал”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “пещемал”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “пещемал”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 222
• “пищимал”, in BGJargon.com (in Bulgarian), 2007