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• General-American: /ˈkɝ.t͡ʃɪf/
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• General-American: /ˈkɝ.t͡ʃif/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɜː.tʃɪf/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɜː.tʃiːf/
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• CMU ARPABET: K ER1 CH AH0 F Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English keverchef, coverchef et al., from Old French couvrechief, from couvrir (“to cover”) + chief (“head”). Compare curfew.

67 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: غِفَارَة (ḡifāra) — piece of cloth
• Arabic: لِفَاع (lifāʕ) — piece of cloth
• Armenian: թաշկինակ (tʻaškinak) — piece of cloth
• Armenian: գլխաշոր (glxašor) — piece of cloth
• Bashkir: яулыҡ (yawlıq) — piece of cloth
• Belarusian: ху́стка (xústka) — piece of cloth
• Bulgarian: забрадка (zabradka) — piece of cloth
• Catalan: mocador — piece of cloth
• Chinese Mandarin: 頭巾 /头巾 (tóujīn) — piece of cloth
• Chuvash: тутӑр (tut̬ăr) — piece of cloth
• Czech: šátek — piece of cloth
• Dutch: hoofddoek — piece of cloth
• Dutch: sluier — piece of cloth
• Esperanto: kaptuko — piece of cloth
• Finnish: huivi — piece of cloth
• French: foulard — piece of cloth
• French: fichu — piece of cloth
• Galician: pano da cabeza — piece of cloth
• Galician: pano — piece of cloth
• Georgian: თავსაფარი (tavsapari) — piece of cloth
• Georgian: თავშალი (tavšali) — piece of cloth
• Georgian: ხილაბანდი (xilabandi) — piece of cloth
• German: Kopftuch — piece of cloth
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌰𐌻𐌹 (aurali) — piece of cloth
• Hausa: mayani — piece of cloth
• Hungarian: kendő — piece of cloth
• Irish: bréidín — piece of cloth
• Irish: brat cinn — piece of cloth
• Irish: cafarr — piece of cloth
• Irish: ciarsúr — piece of cloth
• Italian: bandana — piece of cloth
• Italian: fascia — piece of cloth
• Japanese: 頭巾 (zukin) — piece of cloth
• Korean: 두건 (dugeon) — piece of cloth
• Macedonian: ма́рама (márama) — piece of cloth
• Middle English: keverchef — piece of cloth
• Middle English: kevercher — piece of cloth
• Norwegian: tørkle — piece of cloth
• Ojibwe: moshwe — piece of cloth
• Persian: روسری (rusari) — piece of cloth
• Persian: رویمال (ruymâl) — piece of cloth
• Persian: لچک (lačak) — piece of cloth
• Polish: chustka — piece of cloth
• Portuguese: lenço — piece of cloth
• Portuguese: bandana — piece of cloth
• Romanian: batic — piece of cloth
• Romanian: basma — piece of cloth
• Romanian: năframă — piece of cloth
• Romanian: maramă — piece of cloth
• Russian: плато́к (platók) — piece of cloth
• Russian: плато́чек (platóček) — piece of cloth
• Russian: косы́нка (kosýnka) — piece of cloth
• Serbo-Croatian: марама — piece of cloth
• Serbo-Croatian: marama — piece of cloth
• Spanish: toca — piece of cloth
• Spanish: toquilla — piece of cloth
• Sranan Tongo: angisa — piece of cloth
• Swedish: sjalett — piece of cloth
• Swedish: huvudduk — piece of cloth
• Tajik: рӯймол (rüymol) — piece of cloth
• Tajik: рӯмол (rümol) — piece of cloth
• Tatar: яулык (yawlıq) — piece of cloth
• Turkish: başörtüsü — piece of cloth
• Ukrainian: ху́стка (xústka) — piece of cloth
• Welsh: penllïain — piece of cloth
• Yiddish: טיכל (tikhl) — piece of cloth
• Yiddish: פֿאַטשיילע (fatsheyle) — piece of cloth