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English
Etymology
From floor cloth
Noun
floorcloth (plural floorcloths
A cloth , normally of flannel , used for cleaning floors .
Material used in place of carpeting for covering floors, such as linoleum or oilcloth .
Translations
cloth for cleaning floors
Armenian: պոլի շոր ( poli šor ) ( colloquial, non-standard )
Bulgarian: подочистачка f ( podočistačka )
Chechen: горгам ( gorgam )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 地板布 ( dìbǎn bù )
Dutch: dweil (nl) m
Finnish: lattiarätti (fi) , rätti (fi)
French: serpillière (fr) f serpillère (fr) f panosse (fr) f ( Switzerland, Aosta Valley, Savoie, eastern France )
German: Bodentuch n
Japanese: (床 雑巾 (ja) ( ぞうきん, zōkin )
Khakas: ӌурух ( curux )
Khvarshi: горгом ( gorgom )
Ladin: berdon da fonz m
Portuguese: pano de chão m
Russian: полова́я тря́пка f ( polovája trjápka )
Spanish: aljofifa f ( Southern Spain ) , bayeta f ( Spain standard usage ) , coleto m ( Venezuela ) , frazada de piso f ( Cuba ) , jerga f ( Mexico ) , paño rejilla m ( Argentina ) , rodilla f ( Northern Spain ) , trapero m ( Chile ) , trapo de piso m ( Argentina, Uruguay ) , trapo rejilla m ( Argentina, Uruguay )
Swedish: skurtrasa (sv) c
Tsez: ки́ли ( kíli )