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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD KERCHIEF

From Old French cuevrechef, from covrir to cover + chef head.
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PRONUNCIATION OF KERCHIEF

kerchief  [ˈkɜːtʃɪf] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KERCHIEF

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Kerchief is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES KERCHIEF MEAN IN ENGLISH?

kerchief

Kerchief

A kerchief also known as a bandana, is a triangular or square piece of cloth tied around the head or around the neck for protective or decorative purposes. The popularity of head kerchiefs may vary by culture or religion, as among Orthodox Christian women, Amish women, Orthodox Jewish women and Muslim women.

Definition of kerchief in the English dictionary

The definition of kerchief in the dictionary is a piece of cloth worn tied over the head or around the neck.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH KERCHIEF


handkerchief
ˈhæŋkətʃɪf
mischief
ˈmɪstʃɪf
neckerchief
ˈnɛkətʃɪf
pocket-handkerchief
ˌpɒkɪtˈhæŋkətʃɪf
Schiff
ʃɪf

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE KERCHIEF

kerb market
kerb weight
kerb-crawler
kerb-crawling
kerbaya
Kerbela
kerbing
kerbside
kerbstone
Kerch
kerchiefed
kerchieves
kerel
Kerenski
kereru
kerf
kerflooey
kerfuffle
Kerguelen
kerkier

WORDS THAT END LIKE KERCHIEF

big Chief
big White Chief
car thief
chief
commander in chief
commander-in-chief
commanders in chief
editor in chief
editor-in-chief
examination-in-chief
examinations-in-chief
examine-in-chief
fire chief
in chief
paper handkerchief
police chief
sneak thief
subchief
tenant-in-chief
thief

Synonyms and antonyms of kerchief in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «KERCHIEF»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «kerchief» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of kerchief

Translation of «kerchief» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF KERCHIEF

Find out the translation of kerchief to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of kerchief from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «kerchief» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

头巾
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pañuelo
570 millions of speakers

English

kerchief
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रुमाल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

منديل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

косынка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

lenço
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রূমাল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

foulard
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kerchief
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kopftuch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ハンカチ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

스카프
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kerchief
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

khăn tay
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தலைக்குட்டை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

केरचफ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

başörtü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fazzoletto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

chustka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

косинка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

basma
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μαντήλι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kopdoek
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sjalett
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tørkle
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of kerchief

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KERCHIEF»

The term «kerchief» is regularly used and occupies the 103.508 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of kerchief
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «KERCHIEF» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «kerchief» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «kerchief» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about kerchief

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KERCHIEF»

Discover the use of kerchief in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to kerchief and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Responsa on Contemporary Jewish Women's Issues
It would seem that the three terms are interchangeable: kaltah in the Gemara, cap in Hilchot Ishut chapter 13 and kerchief in chapter 24. However, in Hilchot Sotah 3:5 Rambam wrote, "She stands among them without a shawl and without a ...
J. H. Henkin, 2003
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Quick Bites for Spare Moments
The kerchief does it with effortless ease. It gets sodden. It becomes a little less prim andtrim. But the kerchief doesn't raise eventhe slightest objection. On the contrary, I find it performingthe taskwith quiet confidence.Itdoes agood job, when  ...
R.K. Murthi, 2012
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All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal
She wore the kerchief. The Sultan was enchanted by her sympathy and affection, and his temper became at once less unbearable. The harmony and brilliance of the colours in the web were more splendid than the presence of the bird.
Charles Dickens, 1869
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All the Year Round
She wore the kerchief. The Sultan was enchanted by her sympathy and afl'ection, and his temper became at once less unbearable. The harmony and brilliance of the colours in the web were more splendid than the presence of the bird.
‎1869
5
A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas
The kerchief material was a thin, bleached linen, in length and breadth about the size of a handkerchief, and it too was produced by the local weavers. The women would wrap this white turban over their hairnet in such a way that two corners ...
Ruth R. Wisse, 1986
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Spotlight Science 4
ACTIVITY — Water evaporates faster when there is more heat. Take two handkerchiefs of the same cloth and same size and wet them in water. Put one kerchief inside a room to dry and leave the other to dry in the sun. The kerchief outside in ...
Sr.Chanthal
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Creating a Judaism Without Religion: A Postmodern Jewish ...
Agnon'stale "The Kerchief is a coming of age narrative that employs the talmudic story as a point of departure.27 Told in thirteen chapters (a boy comes of age at thirteen — the hero of Grossman's The Zigzag Kid is about to become Bar ...
S. Daniel Breslauer, 2001
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Memoirs Of A Sai Student:
from me, then the 'kerchief chance' would fall in that other boy's 'territory'! And so, I was hoping that it would happen close to me! I scanned out the faces of devotees with the hope of being able to locate one who might be in 'distress' and thus ...
Aravind Balasubramanya, 2013
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Stages: A Theatre Piece in One Act
I speak is [flaunting it] her kerchief. [Mumbles of "Of course," "I should have known ," "Her kerchief, of course!" CORRIE just flips her kerchief rather meaninglessly ] The kerchief punctuates every witticism, every flirtation, every social nuance.
Jerome McDonough, 1979
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Linguistica Uralica
One of the Finnish terms for a woman's quadrangular kerchief is liina, also paaliina (pad 'head'). This meaning is more frequent in the southern and southwestern part of the country, i.e. in Varsinaissuomi, Hame, and Kymenlaakso , and also in ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KERCHIEF»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term kerchief is used in the context of the following news items.
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Hanky tales | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis
Often, we would use the kerchief as the bone while playing dog-and-the-bone. At other times, we would drape a triangular-folded hanky across ... «Daily News & Analysis, Jul 15»
2
Missoula police search for 2 suspects involved in armed robbery
He has short, dark hair and was wearing a gray, long-sleeved shirt with either a gray or dark-colored kerchief covering part of his face. He was ... «The Missoulian, Jul 15»
3
Bajrangi Bhaijaan : Movie Review by Prashen H. Kyawal - Nagpur …
... hearted people on both side of the Indo-Pak border. Go with your friends and family and don't forget the carry hand kerchief. Advertisement «Nagpur Today, Jul 15»
4
MPD search for 2 suspects involved in armed robbery
He has short, dark hair and was wearing a gray, long-sleeved shirt with either a gray or dark-colored kerchief covering part of his face. He was ... «The Missoulian, Jul 15»
5
From Bulgaria with love: Dimitar Berbatov
... off the pitch with the grace of a Robert de Niro and Al Pacino love child, wears a suit like a 'kerchief on a countryside's chambermaid's head. «Football.co.uk, Jul 15»
6
Jo says those flag-burners have it all wrong
The freedom that allows the over-indulged, self-entitled, and cowardly — yes, cowardly, especially those who hide behind a face kerchief — to ... «Brooklyn Daily, Jul 15»
7
Easthampton women plead not guilty to drug fraud charges
Judge Richard Carey scheduled a pretrial hearing for Oct. 28. Coe, who appeared in a kerchief, is undergoing treatment for cancer, Melnick ... «MassLive.com, Jul 15»
8
'Whistler's Mother' on display at Clark Art Institute
The painting depicts Anna McNeill Whistler dressed in black mourning garb and a white cotton cap, sitting in profile with a lace kerchief in her ... «The Sun Chronicle, Jul 15»
9
How have Russian beauty trends changed over the last hundred …
Simple and barefaced with a head kerchief now that the Soviet Union is well and truly established and Joseph Stalin is in power. russia03. «RocketNews24, Jul 15»
10
“Don't become invisible”: My Lubavitcher mother couldn't utter the …
For married women in my family, this could mean as little as not tucking every stray hair under your kerchief. In my aunt's case it had also ... «Salon, Jul 15»

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