mandil

Meaning

Noun

• A turban; cloth used to make a turban.

Origin

• From Arabic مَنْدِيل ("sash; turban cloth; handkerchief"), already borrowed before Islam from Byzantine Greek μανδίλιον, μαντίλιον, μανδήλη (the last word found in an Egyptian papyrus dated to 481 AD), from Latin mantēlium, mantēle, probably from manus + tergere. Compare French mendil (1659; translating German Mendil from a 1656 source).