Shawl

NOUN: A square or oblong piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders.
TRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: shawled, shawl·ing, shawls
To cover with or as if with such a piece of cloth.
ETYMOLOGY: Persian sha*l, ultimately from Sanskrit , cloth, sari. the * signifies a character that did not copy.
from:http://www.bartleby.com/61/39/S0323900.html

a similar garment, scarf , comes up later in the week.. no relation to shawl, (and scarf only comes up as third level cousin to an other word i plan to add!)

i am looking to see if there are any other english word that use this persian root word as an english term for cloth.. do you know any?

or my dear Mr Bingley, how about the indonian? do they have a similar word


my other obsession