different between mandil vs mandril

English

Etymology

From Arabic ????????? (mand?l, “sash; turban cloth; handkerchief”), already borrowed before Islam from Byzantine Greek ????????? (mandílion), ????????? (mantílion), ??????? (mand?l?, “cloth; hand towel; handkerchief; tablecloth”) (the last word found in an Egyptian papyrus dated to 481 AD), from Latin mant?lium, mant?le (“hand towel, napkin”), probably from manus (“hand”) + tergere (“to rub, wipe, wipe off; to clean”). Compare French mendil (“turban, turban cloth”) (1659; translating German Mendil from a 1656 source).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?mænd?l/
• Hyphenation: man?dil

Noun

mandil (plural mandils)

1. (chiefly Persia, historical) A turban; cloth used to make a turban.

Related terms

• mandilla
• mandylion
• mantilla

References

Anagrams

• lamnid

Old French

Alternative forms

• mendil
• mandilh

Noun

mandil m (oblique plural mandiz or mandilz, nominative singular mandiz or mandilz, nominative plural mandil)

1. Small coat

Spanish

Etymology

From Arabic ????????? (mand?l), from Byzantine Greek ????????? (mandílion), ????????? (mantílion), ??????? (mand?l?, “cloth, hand towel, handkerchief, tablecloth”), from Latin mant?lium, mant?le, hence doublet of mantel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /man?dil/, [mãn??d?il]
• Rhymes: -il

Noun

mandil m (plural mandiles)

1. apron

   Synonym: delantal

Derived terms

• mandilón

English

Pronunciation

• Homophone: mandrill

Noun

mandril (plural mandrils)

1. Alternative spelling of mandrel

Anagrams

• rimland

Dutch

Etymology

Probably borrowed from French mandrill (first attested in Dutch translations of Buffon), from English mandrill.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?n?dr?l/
• Hyphenation: man?dril
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

mandril m (plural mandrillen)

1. A mandrill, Mandrillus sphinx. [from late 18th c.]

Related terms

• dril

Estonian

Noun

mandril

1. adessive singular of mander
2. adessive singular of manner

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Spanish mandril, from French mandrin, from Provençal mandre (“axel”), from Latin mamphur, ultimately borrowed from Oscan. See also Spanish mandrón.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: man?dril
• Rhymes: -iw

Noun

mandril m (plural mandris)

1. arbor (axis or shaft on a lathe)
2. mandrel (tool that grips or clamps something)
3. bit; drill bit (tip of a drill)
4. reamer (tool for precision holes)

Etymology 2

From English mandrill

Noun

mandril m (plural mandris)

1. mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx, a primate of Africa)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French mandrill.

Noun

mandril m (plural mandrili)

1. mandrill

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From English mandrill.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /man?d?il/, [mãn??d??il]
• Rhymes: -il

Noun

mandril m (plural mandriles)

1. mandrill