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Englisch
A tablecloth placed over a table.
Etymology
From Middle English tabyllcloth table cloth tabylle clothe Middle English bord cloth bordcloth ( “ tablecloth ” ) , from Old English bordclāþ table cloth
Pronunciation
Nomen
tablecloth (plural tablecloths
A cloth used to cover and protect a table , especially for a dining table .
1893 Horatio Alger, Jr. , Facing the World :Just across the field stood a small house. In the yard the week's washing was hung out. Among the articles was a red tablecloth .
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
a cloth used to cover and protect a table, especially for a dining table
Albanian: mbulesë tavoline f mbulesë (sq) f
Arabic: غِطَاء الْمَائِدَة m ( ḡiṭāʔ al-māʔida )
Gulf Arabic: صفرة f ( ṣufra ) , سفرة f ( sufra )
Aragonese: mantel
Armenian: սփռոց (hy) ( spʻṙocʻ )
Azerbaijani: süfrə (az) , dəstərxan
Bashkir: ашъяулыҡ ( aşʺyawlıq )
Belarusian: абру́с (be) m ( abrús ) , насто́льнік m ( nastólʹnik ) , насто́льніца f ( nastólʹnica )
Bengali: দস্তরখান (bn) ( dôstôrkhan )
Bulgarian: покри́вка (bg) f ( pokrívka ) ( за маса )
Catalan: tovalles (ca) f pl estovalles (ca) f pl cobretaula m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 桌布 (zh) ( zhuōbù ) , 檯布 ／ 台布 (zh) ( táibù )
Cornish: lien moos m
Czech: ubrus (cs) m
Danish: dug (da) c
Dutch: tafelkleed (nl) , tafelzeil (nl) n
Esperanto: tablotuko
Estonian: laudlina
Faroese: dúkur m
Finnish: pöytäliina (fi)
French: nappe (fr) f
Galician: mantel (gl) m tapete m
Georgian: სუფრა (ka) ( supra )
German: Tischdecke (de) f Tischtuch (de) n
Greek: τραπεζομάντηλο (el) n ( trapezomántilo )
Hebrew: מַפָּה (he) f ( mappá )
Hindi: मेज़पोश m ( mezpoś ) , टेबुल-क्लाथ ( ṭebul-klāth )
Hungarian: abrosz (hu) , asztalterítő (hu)
Icelandic: borðdúkur (is) m
Indonesian: alas meja (id) , seperah (id)
Irish: scaraoid (bhoird) f brat boird m éadach cláir m éadach boird m éadach tábla m
Italian: tovaglia (it) f
Japanese: テーブル掛け (ja) ( テーブルかけ, tēburukake ) , テーブルクロス (ja) ( tēburukurosu )
Kazakh: дастархан ( dastarxan )
Khmer: កំរាលតុ ( kɑmraal tok )
Korean: 식탁보(食卓褓) ( siktakbo )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: سفرە ( sifre )
Kyrgyz: дасторкон (ky) ( dastorkon )
Lao: ຜ້າປູໂຕະ ( phā pū to ) , ແພປູໂຕະ ( phǣ pū to )
Latin: mēnsārium n
Latvian: galdauts m
Lithuanian: staltiesė
Luxembourgish: Dëschelduch (lb) n Napp (lb) f
Macedonian: чаршав m ( čaršav ) , мушама f ( mušama )
Malay: alas meja
Maltese: dvalja f
Manx: brat vuird
Maori: uhi uwhi uhi tēpu uwhi tēpu
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: ширээний бүтээлэг ( šireenii büteeleg )
Norman: doubliyi m
Norwegian: duk (no) c Bokmål: bordduk m
Nynorsk: bordduk m
Old English: bēodclāþ m
Ottoman Turkish: سفره ( sofra ) , دستار ( destar )
Persian: سفره (fa) ( sofre ) , دسترخوان ( dastarxân )
Polish: obrus (pl) m
Portuguese: toalha de mesa f
Romanian: față de masă (ro) f
Russian: ска́терть (ru) f ( skátertʹ )
Scottish Gaelic: anart-bùird m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: сто̑лња̄к m
Roman: stȏlnjāk (sh) m
Sicilian: tuvagghia (scn) f
Skolt Sami: skääˊtar
Slovak: obrus (sk) m
Slovene: prt (sl) m
Spanish: mantel (es) m
Swedish: bordsduk (sv) c
Tajik: дасторхон ( dastorxon ) , суфра ( sufra )
Tamil: மேசைவிரிப்பு (ta) ( mēcaivirippu )
Tarantino: mesále
Tatar: ашъяулык (tt) ( aşʺyawlıq )
Thai: ผ้าปูโต๊ะ ( pâa-bpuu-dtó )
Turkish: masa örtüsü (tr) , sofra (tr)
Ukrainian: ска́терть f ( skátertʹ ) , скате́рка f ( skatérka ) , стільни́к m ( stilʹnýk ) , о́брус (uk) m ( óbrus ) , обру́с (uk) m ( obrús )
Urdu: میزپوش m ( mezpoś )
Uzbek: dasturxon (uz)
Venetian: tovaja f tovagia toaja tavaja
Vietnamese: khăn trải bàn
Vilamovian: tejśtüch n
Volapük: letabaklöf
Welsh: lliain bwrdd m lliain bord m
Yiddish: טישטעך m or n ( tishtekh )
See also
Further reading
Tablecloth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 