different between headscarf vs shawl

English

Alternative forms

• head scarf, head-scarf

Noun

headscarf (plural headscarves or headscarfs)

1. A more or less square piece of material worn over the head, typically by women, often to protect the hair, or for religious reasons.

   Synonym: headsquare

Derived terms

• headscarfless

Translations

Further reading

• headscarf on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• hardfaces

English

Etymology

Via Hindi ??? (??l) and Urdu ???? (??l), ultimately from Persian ???? (šâl).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Noun

shawl (plural shawls)

1. A square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders, typically by women. [from 1662]
2. A fold of wrinkled flesh under the lips and neck of a bloodhound, used in scenting.

Derived terms

• beshawled

Translations

Verb

shawl (third-person singular simple present shawls, present participle shawling, simple past and past participle shawled)

1. (transitive) To wrap in a shawl.

Anagrams

• Walsh

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Etymology

From Middle English shillen, from Old English s?ylian, s?ilian.

Verb

shawl

1. to shell

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN