منديل handkerchief
Etymology
of Arabic words: منديل
(mendil) which means handkerchief comes
probably from the greek word μαντηλι (mantili) with the same meaning
and which is in use since the second century A.D. In Turkish they use
also the word mendil.
According to Wicktionary the greek word is a Hellinistic loan from the Latin mantilium/mantelium which is a diminutive of the word mantile/mantele<manus.
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