handkerchief in Malay
sapu tangan
/ˈhæŋkɚt͡ʃəf//ˈhæŋkəːt͡ʃɪf/
handkerchief in Malay: sapu tangan. In English, handkerchief means a piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face, eyes, nose or hands.
Malay words for handkerchief
- cloth for wiping the face, eyes, nose or hands
- sapu tangan
English meaning of handkerchief
- noun A piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face, eyes, nose or hands.
- noun A piece of cloth shaped like a handkerchief to be worn about the neck; a neckerchief or neckcloth.
handkerchief in a sentence
- He sneezed into his handkerchief during the meeting.
Synonyms of handkerchief
handkerchief in other languages
- handkerchief in Hindi
- handkerchief in Tamil
- handkerchief in Marathi
- handkerchief in Urdu
- handkerchief in Bengali
- handkerchief in Telugu
- handkerchief in Malayalam
- handkerchief in Kannada
- handkerchief in Punjabi
- handkerchief in Gujarati
- handkerchief in Odia
- handkerchief in Sanskrit
- handkerchief in Assamese
- handkerchief in Nepali
- handkerchief in Pashto
- handkerchief in Tagalog
- handkerchief in Arabic
- handkerchief in Indonesian
- handkerchief in Thai
- handkerchief in Vietnamese
- handkerchief in Myanmar
Questions about handkerchief in Malay
- What is the meaning of handkerchief in Malay?
- Handkerchief in Malay is sapu tangan.
- Apakah maksud handkerchief dalam bahasa Melayu?
- Handkerchief: sapu tangan.
- What does handkerchief mean in English?
- Handkerchief means a piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face, eyes, nose or hands.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: handkerchief (page history and authors), its translation table and English meanings. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Malay words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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