different between clothing vs kurta

English

Etymology

From Middle English clothing, clathing; equivalent to clothe +? -ing. Cognate with Scots cleeding, cleiding, cleading (“clothing”), Dutch kleding (“clothing”), German Kleidung (“clothing”), Danish klædning (“clothing, dress, attire”), Swedish klädning (“dress”). Doublet of the dialectal English term cleading, from Middle English clething; compare also cladding.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kl??ð??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?klo?ð??/
• Rhymes: -??ð??
• Hyphenation: cloth?ing

Verb

clothing

1. present participle of clothe

Noun

clothing (countable and uncountable, plural clothings)

1. Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to preserve modesty, or for fashion.
2. An act or instance of putting clothes on.

   The clothing and unclothing of the idols was of special significance.

3. (obsolete) The art or process of making cloth.
   • 1713, John Ray, Three Physico-theological discourses

     Instructing [refugees] in the art of clothing.

4. A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat.

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Derived terms

• clothingless
• wolf in sheep's clothing
• women's clothing

Synonyms

• clothes, attire, apparel

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:clothing

Translations

See also

• vestiary, sartorial

See also

Middle English

Alternative forms

• clathing, clothyng, clothynge, clathynge, cloþing, cloþinge, cloþingue, claþing, claþinng, cloþyng, cla?ing

Etymology

From clothen +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• (Early ME, Northern ME) IPA^(key): /?kl??ðin?/
• IPA^(key): /?kl??ðin?/

Noun

clothing (plural clothinges)

1. What one wears; clothing, outfit, garments.
   1. A piece of clothes; an individual component of an outfit.
   2. The uniform or outfit associated with an occupation or position.
   3. (figuratively) One's religious values and priorities.
   4. (figuratively, rare) One's appearance or countenance.
2. Linen or sheets used as a cover or a protective layer.
3. The equipping or provision of garments.

Descendants

• English: clothing

References

• “cl?thing, ger.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-27.

English

Alternative forms

• khurta

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi ????? (kurt?)/Urdu ????? (kurt?), from Persian ????? (korte).

Noun

kurta (plural kurtas)

1. A traditional article of clothing worn in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, consisting of a loose, collarless, long-sleeved, knee-length shirt worn by both men and women.
   • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p. 44:

     Now her fingers began to unbutton the ivory studs that ran slantwise across the chest of his kurta.

Translations

References

• “kurta”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
• “kurta”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “kurta” in the Collins English Dictionary
• “kurta” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2021.

Anagrams

• Kartu, Kraut, kraut

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ku?t?/

Noun

kúrta m 

1. sharing
2. (mathematics) division

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Ido kurta.

Pronunciation

Adjective

kurta (accusative singular kurtan, plural kurtaj, accusative plural kurtajn)

1. (chiefly poetic) short

Synonyms

• mallonga

Antonyms

• longa

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin curta, feminine of curtus (“shortened”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kurt?]
• Hyphenation: kur?ta
• Rhymes: -t?

Adjective

kurta (comparative kurtább, superlative legkurtább)

1. short, brief, curt

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• kurta in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French court, German kurz, Italian corto, Spanish corto. Decision no. 224, Progreso IV.

Adjective

kurta

1. short

Antonyms

• longa

Derived terms

• kurteskar (“to shorten”)

References

Latvian

Participle

kurta

1. genitive singular masculine form of kurts
2. nominative singular feminine form of kurts

Portuguese

Etymology

From Hindi

Noun

kurta f (plural kurtas)

1. kurta (a knee-length shirt used in southeast Asia)