رومال

Borrowed from Classical Persian رُومَال (rūmāl, literally “face-wiper”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɾuː.mɑːl/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): /ɾʊ.mɑːl/
• Rhymes: -ɑːl
• Hyphenation: رُو‧مال

رُومَال • (rūmāl) m (Hindi spelling रूमाल)

1. handkerchief
2. napkin
3. (rare or dated) gaddi

• “رومال”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “رومال”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “رو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “رومال”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “رومال”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “رومال”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC